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LATIN AMERICA News, Sep 03, 2011


US indicts Colombian 'submarine' drug traffickers
AFP
Operation Seven Trumpets -- focusing on traffickers who used US-registered planes to transport tons of cocaine from clandestine South American airstrips to similar landing sites in Central America, and eventually on to the United States -- led to 34 of ...
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ANALYSIS: European bunker fuel market slow to move to new ISO standard
Platts
"ISO 2010 is not always available [in every port]," another ship owner said. "If it is available we would have to pay a few dollars premium. It will take a while before ISO 2010 is universally accepted; some ports in South America are still selling ISO ...
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Toronto Blue Jays re-stocking the cupboard in Latin America
The Cheap Seats
Like Valenzuela, the latest Mexican sensation to grab headlines is a barrel-chested teenager with a smooth delivery and the type of nickname that can only be earned. His given name is Roberto Osuna, and his notoriety grew as a 15-year old while ...
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ConvaTec forays into Latin America with Boston Medical Device acquisition ...
Mass Device
Medical device maker ConvaTec nabbed up Boston Medical Device, increasing its foothold in emerging markets in Latin America. Skillman, NJ-based ConvaTec didn't disclose the terms of the acquisition, the announcement follows rumors that it had ...
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Rent at Sydney's Pitt Street Mall Among The World's Most Costly
International Business Times AU
Cushman & Wakefield said the Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions led the global growth in retail rents. Asia-Pacific saw a rental uplift of 12.2% with Wangfujing in Beijing recording the largest growth (109.5%) and is the biggest riser globally this ...
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Who Wins?: "Money Flow" vs. "Fundamentals"
Inside Futures
It is nice to see them buying in large quantities, but it would be much nicer to see them booking US soybeans rather than South American beans this far out. The same goes for Taiwan who also has been noted as recent buyers of Brazilian soybeans, ...
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A new take on Melanie Oudin's magical summer
ESPN
The recent runs by 19-year-old Christina McHale and Sloane Stephens are reminiscent of anotherAmerican teenager who found stardom at the US Open. Two years ago, in the summer of 2009, Melanie Oudin had two phenomenal tournaments while the whole world ...
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Class Actions Head South of the Border
Wall Street Journal (blog)
“Mexico is the latest in a string of countries in Europe and Latin America to enact class action laws,” Shook Hardy partner Bill Crampton told the Law Blog. “Class actions have been a costly form of litigation for US companies for many years and ...
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STAKE THAT - THE ULTIMATE VAMPIRE AZ
Daily Star
Usually they prey on livestock and are found in South America, but last month a 19-year-old became the first person to die in the US from a vampire bat – chillingly in Louisiana, the same state in which vampire TV show True Blood is set. ...
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THE SOFT SPOT(24)
Inside Futures
Cocoa growing regions are Africa, Asia, Central America and South America. All are within 20 degrees of the equator Seventy percent of the worlds Cocoa is produced in West Africa. It takes five years for a Cocoa tree to bear pods. ...
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Top Picks for Equity Emerging-Markets CEFs
Morningstar.com
For example, Turkish Investment Funds holds more than 95% of its assets in Turkey, while the more broadly invested Templeton Emerging Markets invests in Asia, Latin America, emerging Europe, and Africa. Further, Aberdeen Emerging Markets ...
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What Happens When Google Rules the World?
New University Online
If you view the Google conquest as a game of Risk (the game of world domination) then Google is standing in the position of owning Africa, Australia and all of South America. They have a border on all of the major continents and can attack from any ...
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Bovespa Declines Most in Two Weeks as U.S. Employment Stagnates
Bloomberg
That compares to a daily average this year of 6.54 billion reais through Aug. 30, according to data from the exchange. Foreign investors have pulled 659.1 million reais from Latin America's largest equity market in the year through Aug. ...
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The love-in continues: Chinese consortium invests $1.95bn in Brazilian miner
Financial Times (blog)
That may seem like a bit of a long shot, but China Inc is playing the long game in Latin America, quietly and slowly building up its presence in the region. An announcement on Friday that a Chinese consortium will acquire aa 15 per cent stake in a ...
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Financial Times (blog)
Baby-bump paintings are the latest craze
Shields Gazette
Gazette Repoter Leah Strug shows off her bump after the paint job by Nicola Walton By LEAH STRUG KIDS love to get their faces painted, but a South Tyneside businesswoman is tackling youngsters before they are even born. With the rise of theAmerican ...
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A Piece of the Action
New York Times
Rotella, who has covered crime in Latin America as a journalist, sets this thriller in the borderlands of San Diego and Tijuana, but takes the plot beyond the well-traveled fictional territory of Mexican drug cartels and beleaguered customs agents ...
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Reminiscing the Cold War
Manila Standard Today
Nonetheless, the Soviets and the Americans inhibited themselves from any direct confrontation that could easily escalate into an all- out war, although limited or proxy wars continued to rage in Africa,Latin America and Asia. ...
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Almost half of foreign residents in Argentina are from Paraguay and Bolivia
MercoPress
... most have been from South America. The 4.5% represent 1.805.957 people and between the 2001 and 2010 census this segment of the Argentine population has increased by 300.000, equivalent to 20% which is higher than the overall percentage. ...
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MercoPress
Muckraker: Puerile attempt to soil Zuma falls flat
Zimbabwe Independent
This is because Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai wrote a “sensational” letter to US President (Barack) Obama in December 2009. It is this document, the Sunday Mail claims, “that reveals theAmerican leader's “crucial dialogue” with the South African ...
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti | Following the fallen angels
Livemint
This was true of his messy, rollicking first novel, A Case Of Exploding Mangoes, a kind of South Asian throwback to the great political novels of Latin America. It shades into deeper meaning in the more troubling Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. ...
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iPhone 5 release date rumors, and Google Android powerhouse
PopHerald.com
Apple's iPhone 4 is arguably the most popular high-end smartphone in the world with millions of units shipped worldwide including emerging markets in Asia, Europe andSouth America. In USA, iPhones powered by Apple's iOS are also popular, ...
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PopHerald.com
Fox Still Wrong About NLRB's Complaint Against Boeing
Media Matters for America
Fox News' Juliet Huddy falsely claimed that the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) complaint against Boeing is the result of planned Boeing jobs in South Carolina being "nonunion" and that the NLRB's action is "unprecedented." Huddy is the latest ...
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American Officials Enjoy Lives Without Shame
Truthdig
Three recent news headlines allege some pretty horrifying behavior and illustrate how shameless some American officials have become when it comes to breaking the rules or messing up and pretending that everything is still OK. ...
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Mexico's drugs war goes to school
Aljazeera.net
Compared to other countries in Latin America, schools in Mexico fare quite well in terms of educational standards. A survey from PISA, an international test of 15-year-olds, says Mexico has the region's second best educated children after Chile. ...
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Opera Recalls A Hero's Life, Love and Song
New York Times
Between 8:46 am, when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center's North Tower, and 9:03 am, when United Airlines Flight 175 hit the SouthTower, Rescorla mobilized to evacuate all but 6 of his company's 2700 employees, ...
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New York Times
Tickets Now On Sale for Universal Studios Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights
Dread Central
And new this year, director Diego Luna brings an eerie legend to life in La Llorona: Villa De Almas Perdidas (The Weeping Woman: Village of Lost Souls) a maze depicting this chilling tale that has terrorized Latin American children for years. ...
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