LATIN AMERICA News, Apr 22, 2012

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Obama Briefed on Widening Secret Service Scandal Fox News Regional business leaders are meeting parallel to the sixth Summit of the Americas which brings together presidents and prime ministers from Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America and the US (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP2012 WASHINGTON – A week after an ... See all stories on this topic »

Latin American currencies rise Business Recorder (blog) Latin American currencies gained on Friday, with the Peruvian peso hitting its strongest level in nearly 15 years, as better-than-expected data in Europe improved risk appetite across global foreign exchange markets. Peru's peso rose 0.08 percent to ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama: US has offered no 'freebies' to Iran TheReporter.com His assessment, delivered at the close of a Latin American summit in Colombia, came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday had said the US and world powers gave Tehran a "freebie" by agreeing to hold more talks next month. See all stories on this topic »

More resignations in Secret Service scandal GlobalNews.ca The President;on his way to the Summit of the Americas in Colombia;used the visit to emphasis small business trade with countries in Latin America. WASHINGTON - A week after a Secret Service prostitution scandal began unfolding in the hallway of a ... See all stories on this topic »

Argentina's Cristina Kirchner opens a new trade war Telegraph.co.uk Prado's mood is perhaps not surprising, given that across Latin America, national oil companies like YPF are viewed as part of the national identity. “Petroleum nationalism runs very high inLatin America. It's not a uniquely Argentine theme,” says ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Court Recognizes First Gay Marriage In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil On Top Magazine It is the first such decision in the state of Rio de Janeiro and thelatest victory in recent months for gay marriage advocates inLatin America's most populous nation. Two men in June were allowed by a state court judge to legally change their civil ... See all stories on this topic » On Top Magazine

Lee County chef uses TV fame to promote causes The News-Press ... which educates people of all ages to make better and more informed food choices, jamieoliver.com; partner with the Pan American Development Foundation which works to strengthen communities in Latin American and Caribbean countries, padf.org; ... See all stories on this topic »

UN threatens sanctions against Guinea-Bissau Fox News Some analysts believe the military leaders behind the latest coup were concerned about interference in the country's lucrative drug trade. Traffickers from Latin America use the nation's archipelago of uninhabited islands to land small, twin-engine ... See all stories on this topic »

America's decline — myth or reality? Saudi Gazette Luce's diagnosis of America's decline, published in April, was the latestaddition to a steadily growing library of books, academic papers and opinion pieces for or against the idea that the United States can maintain its status as the world's only ... See all stories on this topic »

Six GCC companies in the Top 500 ranking with market cap of $210bn MENAFN.COM (MENAFN - Arab News) The Financial Times has released its latest ranking of the global Top 500 companies by market capitalization as at March 2012. The total market value for all of the participants was $25.3 trillion, a 3.4 percent decrease from $26.2 ... See all stories on this topic »

Secret Service Sex Scandal Again Raises The Question: 'Where Are The Women?' ThinkProgress I think it's appropriate that we have female legislators here today, because we just learned this morning that the agent who swept in and cleaned this all up, female agent Paula Reid, head of the service detail down in Latin America, and she seemed to ... See all stories on this topic » ThinkProgress

Create jobs, support investment, G20 told Deccan Herald “If you look at the characters of BRICS, it represents Asia, Europe, South Africa and Latin America. Its total contribution in the world output today is substantial. As per the latest world outlook by IMF and the forecast, two countries which are being ... See all stories on this topic »

'Battleship' Past $100M Foreign Box Office Deadline.com Universal has 14 more territories to open including Israel on May 3, South Africa on May 4, and Latin America starting on May 10. Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here. Get the latest Industry news sent straight to your Wall. See all stories on this topic »

Grand Rapids company's high-tech water filter continues to make mark in... MLive.com With a focus on Africa, Asia and Latin American, the effort began with inaugural projects in Ghana, the Philippines and the Dominican Republic. Keller says the company is looking at other financing tools to provide the filters to families, ... See all stories on this topic » MLive.com

Major candidates in 2012 French presidential election BusinessGhana Joining the Socialist Party since 1977 and serving as minister of vocational education from 2000 to 2002, he left the party to found Left Party in 2008, inspired by leftist movements in Latin America and France's own historic leftist examples such as ... See all stories on this topic »

Should Obama be Trusted to Stop Iran's Nukes? Arutz Sheva Born in Manila, American by choice, the author is a former clinical research-physician-general surgeon for Saudi Arabian, Philippine and Americanhealthcare systems and currently an American freelance writer as well as op-ed contributor to Yahoo ... See all stories on this topic »

Palm oil's 'secret, bountiful yield' New Straits Times Apart from Malaysia and Indonesia, oil palm trees are also cultivated in Papua New Guinea, Central and West Africa, and Latin America, all of which are developing countries in the humid tropics. "Did you know that oil palm trees are planted by some 10... See all stories on this topic » New Straits Times

Mexican women voters back "alpha male" over female rival TrustLaw She has had trouble framing her bid in the mold of Latin American women presidents like Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Cristina Fernandez in Argentina who took power as leaders of stature. One poll published on Thursday night even put her in third place ... See all stories on this topic »

GOP's assault on women bogs down in the quicksand of free contraception OpEdNews It turns out that most Americans, especially women, agree that insurance companies should have to cover contraception -- for example, birth-control pills -- in their health insurance plans. One result of this battle has been a record gender gap in the ... See all stories on this topic »

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