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Sep 14, 2011

LATIN AMERICA News, Sep 14, 2011


Light Reading & TeleSemana Announce Online & Research Partnership to Serve ...
Sacramento Bee
... the latest market trends, both regionally as well as globally in a variety of formats, such as, but not limited to, audio and video. TeleSemana is a division of Tele-Medios, the leading telecommunications B2B media specialist in Latin America. ...
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Pakistan official to NBC: Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri has 'migrated'
msnbc.com
>> obtained exclusive information about just how weak al qaeda has become this as the terror network released a 9/11 anniversary video more than a day late. jim miklaszewski has the latest for us. >> it does seem a little odd that it would release the ...
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VIDEO: Celebration mixes culture, heritage
The Daily Campus
The College Hispanic American Students Organization (CHAS)celebrated the beginning of Latin Heritage Month, which is taking place across the country from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, with several types of dancing, traditional South American and Cuban foods, ...
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Aspiro TV: Aspiro TV enters into agreement with operator in Latin America
The Swedish Wire
Aspiro AB today announce that it has signed an agreement with a mobile network operator, to delivervideo streaming services in Latin America. The agreement has a term of three years and will generate annual revenues in the range between 5-8 MSEK, ...
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Latin America and the Zombie Factor
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
[26] The Central American wars and dictatorships in South America, like in Augusto Pinochet's repressive regime in Chile, the high levels of violence in Latin America's recent past, combined with ongoing drug-related violence, seem to show that there ...
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Footage Search Announces the New Travel HD Collection Exclusively Available at ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Explore urban locales with postcard perfect video clips of old-world European cities and emerging Asian hotspots. Enjoy the relaxing, vast horizons in the Australian outback, or float down tropical rivers in South America. From arctic expeditions to ...
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First, Arab Spring. Next, “Cuban Autumn”?
GlobalPost
When Cubans protest in public spontaneously, as some of the recent videos show, police quickly swoop in to arrest the demonstrators and haul them away, though the activists are often released several hours later. Cuba's Catholic church, which played a...
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GlobalPost
Usain Bolt back with record run [video]
The Roar
The run of 9.85 seconds beat American Tyson Gay's record of 9.92 seconds, which was set last year. Bolt, the Olympic gold medal holder, was controversially disqualified for false starting at therecent World Championships in South Korea and although ...
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George W. Bush 'back in the hood,' warns isolationism is 'dangerous' [VIDEO]
Daily Caller
... Department of State, the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to combat cervical and breast cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. ...
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Netflix raises the curtain
Nassau Guardian
The move comes as a part of a marketing effort that adds 43 Caribbean and Latin American countries to the content provider's 25 million North American clients. Priced at $7.99 for The Bahamas, the service, which first launched yesterday, ...
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Nassau Guardian
VIDEO: Baby Giant Otters at LA Zoo
MyFox Los Angeles
The endangered freshwater mammals are rare in captivity. Only four other US zoos exhibit the animals, which live in slow moving streams, lakes and swamps in South America, including the Amazon River system. Check the baby giant otters out in the video. ...
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Holland America Line Launches Alaska Cruise Sweepstakes on Facebook
Sacramento Bee
Using the Connect tab, fans can view Holland America Line videos on YouTube, check the latestTwitter and Holland America Blog posts, and flip through numerous photo albums — all without leaving Facebook. The Connect tab also lets fans create a ...
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DEVILDRIVER: New Video Interview With DEZ FAFARA - Sep. 13, 2011
Blabbermouth.net
DEVILDRIVER guitarist Mike Spreitzer was forced to sit out the band's recent South American tour after suffering a seizure. DEVILDRIVER bassist Aaron "Bubble" Patrick (ex-BURY YOUR DEAD) suffered a back injury in July but was able to recover in time to ...
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DMX extends across Latin America
Rapid tv news
Through its new structure DMX believes that it has reaffirmed its position in the development and distribution of music content and other added value services for digital TV platforms in Latin Americaand the Caribbean. DMX will also continue to offer ...
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Political Party! Celebrating UNDRIP and Indigenous Culture in Montreal
Indian Country Today Media Network.com
“We are marching to the sound of the drum, in the tradition of brotherhood, sisterhood and friendship among the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, the people of Montreal and the First Nations,” said AndrĂ© Dudemaine, Innu, the cultural director ...
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Un festival de pelĂ­cula enriches Hispanic Heritage Month
NKU The Northerner Online
By Roxanna Blevins “Sin dejar huella” (“Without a Trace”) starts off the Spanish and Latin AmericanFilm Series on Sept. 21, just in time for National Hispanic Heritage Month. The film follows two women who meet while on the run — one from a bad ...
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CORRECTION Introducing Moba, Softonic's Very Own App for Mobile Devices
The Open Press (press release)
London, UK (OPENPRESS) September 14, 2011 -- Softonic, the top site for secure software download and purchase in Europe and Latin America and one of the sector leaders worldwide, has launched Softonic Moba, a new application for iPhone and Android ...
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VERONICA PIMSTEIN NAMED SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CREATIVE, PRODUCTION, LATIN ...
CisionWire (press release)
In this role, Pimstein will oversee creative for the company's US Hispanic and Latin Americanproduction businesses, foster relationships with writers and creative talent in the region and supervise new concepts from the idea stage through series for ...
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North Korean Cruise Seeks Tourists, 8 to a Room
Lexington Dispatch
The next morning, the boat pulled into the harbor of the nature park at Mount Kumgang, not far from the border with South Korea. The day and night spent there involved hiking, an acrobatics show and a video pitch for the Chinese businesspeople on ...
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Latin Quotes From Movies About Love And Hate
Screen Junkies
The Latin phrase makes this quote stand out as powerful and exciting. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary," from "The Dead Poet's Society." This is one of the most popular quotes from American cinema. This Latin quote from a ...
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GE and CINELAN Announce New Partners for Focus Forward - Documentary Project
MarketWatch (press release)
The Focus Forward films will premiere as collections curated by the programming teams at other major festivals in Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, South America, and the Middle East beginning in 2012. The full roster of filmmakers, festival partners, ...
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Arianespace to launch satellites for DirecTV
Broadband TV News
... DirecTV's DTH digital entertainment services across the United States and, if the options are exercised, Latin America by increasing HD channel capacity, adding more 3D channels, and greatly expanding the DirecTV Cinema movies experience. ...
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Broadband TV News
Arris Group Still Neutral
Daily Markets
In addition to the US, huge deployment of DOCSIS 3.0 technology in Europe and Latin America will also help its long-term growth. Customer concentration remains high for the company. Historically, the two major clients, viz, Comcast Corp. ...
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Trajectories of China, US diverged after 9/11
People's Daily Online
China also began to actively practice soft power around the world, making investments in Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Those investments not only made economic sense but also benefitted the local economy and made friends with a vast number ...
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DVDs: When Tom Cruise Became A Superstar
Huffington Post
It fails on almost every level -- as an action film, as a romance, as a coming of age story, as a musicvideo. On almost every level but one. It is a star vehicle of the first order, the sort of tailor-made movie that the studio system used to create ...
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Netflix could be profitable in Canada this quarter; Mexico could take 2 years
FierceOnlineVideo
Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) has completed its rollout in 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, offering programming in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and the company expects to be profitable in Mexico within two years. ...
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Sep 14, 2011

Global woes to be raised at IMF-World Bank meet
BusinessWorld Online
They need to have a plan rather than just do palliative measures like quantitative easing.” The IMF-WB Annual Meetings, to be held on Sept. 23-25 in Washington, DC, will bring together finance andbanking leaders from all over the world as markets fear ...
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EUROZONE Crisis News, Sep 14, 2011


French banks downgraded before Greece talks
AFP
PARIS — Moody's ratings agency downgraded two top French banks in a new lurch for the eurozone crisis on Wednesday which Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski warned could destroy the European Union. Moody's cut the rating for Credit Agricole bank, ...
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AFP
Asia stocks fall as euro crisis saps confidence
Business Standard
A Brazilian source told Reuters on Tuesday that the Brics group of big emerging economies was in preliminary talks on increasing their holdings of euro-denominated bonds to help ease the eurozone crisis. Gold rose 0.5% to around $1843 an ounce, ...
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Business Standard
Moody's cuts French banks as euro crisis deepens
Reuters
A combination of a banking crisis akin to the global credit crunch, a Greek default and a financialmeltdown in Italy could tear the euro zone apart. "I think there is a possibility, if the wrong steps are taken, that the system goes off the rails," ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-EU bond comments lifts European shares, euro
Reuters
... of a recession in the United States and Europe's protracted debt woes, which have forcedGreece, Ireland and Portugal to take bailouts and piled bond market pressure on Italy and Spain. The crisis has the potential to derail global economic growth. ...
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Economist Says Russia Could Be Safe From Euro Debt Crisis
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
That country finds itself in a debt crisis and is forced to ask other countries for financial assistance. In Greece, Ireland, or Portugal, the reasons the debt crisis arose might be different, but the result is exactly the same. ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Taiwan stocks rise, but banks down again on euro zone woes
Reuters
"The exposure is not really that bad because little of them is related to Greece," said Jorden Chen, chief investment officer of Schroders in Taiwan. "Market sentiment has been weak, however. Theeuro zone debt crisis is a long-term, structural problem ...
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IMF urges cuts in wasteful spending in Portugal
Reuters
Portugal was the third euro zone country after Greece and Ireland to turn to the IMF for funding as a debt crisis in Europe spread. "There is no doubt the continued uncertainty about the periphery is affecting Portugal unfavorably," said Thomsen, ...
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US Continues To Press Europe To Boost Bailout Firepower
Wall Street Journal
While Greece teeters on the razor's edge of default and Italian and Spanish debt is thrashed by markets skeptical of the euro-zone's resolve to fixing the crisis, Europe's most powerful member, Germany, has struggled to fully support the measure. ...
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The (Debt) Hangover – Part II
EconoMonitor
First, the eurozone sovereign debt and banking crisis worsened—which was predictable. Since May 2010, the eurozone crisis has been treated by Europeanauthorities like a periphery-country government liquidity crisis rather than a periphery-country ...
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BULLION MORNING - Gold drops after Moody's downgrade of French banks heightens ...
FXstreet.com
“Everyone will be watching headlines and comments related to the Eurozone and the US,” the trader said. Investors must be cautious about technical weakness, traders said, although the turmoil in thefinancial markets and the eurozone crisis is likely ...
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VIX at Biggest Discount to Europe Since '08 as Default Risk Rises: Options
Bloomberg
By Cecile Vannucci and Jeff Kearns - Tue Sep 13 20:17:51 GMT 2011 Concern Greece will default on its loans and spur a banking crisis is driving up the price of options relative to contracts in the US, where equities are beating their euro-zone ...
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General assembly of the EPP Workers Group: Boosting employment
Malta Independent Online
by Csaba Ory With the notable exception of Malta, the financial crisis has left unemployment at a historic high across most of Europe. In Spain, the unemployment rate remains stubborn at one-fifth of the workforce And neither are Greece, Portugal and ...
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Societe Generale takes on the 'irrational market'
CNN
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- French banking group Societe Generale has been at the center of the recent turmoil over the deepening sovereign debt crisis in Europe. But the bank went on the offensive this week, arguing that its exposure to Greece and other ...
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Indian shares drop 0.2 pct; inflation data eyed
Reuters
... economic growth on the profitability and margins of companies in Asia's third-largest economy. Fears of the United States slipping back into recession and euro zone debt crisis, which have seenGreece, Ireland and Portugal forced to take bailouts, ...
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Merkel Muzzling Coalition Critics to Gain Time
Spiegel Online
The chancellor's crisis management isn't going well, and the policies being pursued in efforts to rescue the euro are appearing more and more like some kind of odyssey. Merkel, who heads the conservative Christian Democratic Union party, ...
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Spiegel Online
Asian markets mostly down as eurozone fear
Ninemsn
Asian markets were mostly lower on Tuesday as optimism over reports that China was in talks to buy huge amounts of Italian bonds was outweighed by ongoing concerns about the wider eurozonedebt crisis. The euro clawed back some of the heavy losses it ...
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Fiat-Chrysler CEO: Euro system could go "off the rails"
Reuters
... European leaders resolved the debt crisis. Marchionne said markets were showing little confidence in Europe's ability to draw a line under the crisis, which has spread to his homeland Italy after engulfing Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. ...
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Reuters
Arsene Knows
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Showing just how the euro zone's debt crisis is now spilling beyond the business pages and into the mainstream, Mr. Wenger has joined the cacophony of eurocrats, politicians and City analysts predicting disaster in as little as three weeks' time. ...
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Slovakia PM fights bail-out opposition
Financial Times
“We are against the EFSF because it is not the right solution to the debt crisis. The eurozone is just trying to solve the debt crisis with more debt,” Mr Sulik told the Financial Times in a telephone interview. His party has dubbed the idea “a road to ...
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Under-fire Italy ready to cede sovereignty to EU: minister
Expatica Germany
Frattini's comments came a day after the interest rate on Italian bonds spiked to a new high as many fear Italy could be the next eurozone domino to fall amid a mounting debt crisis that has already claimed Ireland, Portugal and Greece. ...
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Oil slips as market seen capped by Europe crisis
Reuters UK
... the euro zone debt crisis. [ID:nL3E7KE00V Global markets have been roiled since the end of July by the twin fears of renewed recession in the United States and Europe's protracted debt woes, which have seen bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal ...
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EUROPEAN EQUITY OPENING NEWS INCLUDING: BP - The results of a pivotal federal ...
Proactive Investors UK
(RTRS) Equities finished the session in positive territory yesterday, on hope that Europe will be able to contain the ongoing debt crisis. In terms of the sector break down, all ten sectors finished comfortably in the green, and the move higher was ...
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IMF advice accused of risking new recession
Bretton Woods Update
A late May discussion paper by the European Trade Union Confederation argues that the IMF is using the eurozone crisis as a means to deregulate wages and labour markets in the euro area, focussing not just on borrowing countries. ...
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Investors: Why I'm Staying Short The Market With This Inverse ETF (SPXU, SDS ...
ETF Daily News
However overnight we also had positive development in the Euro-zone sovereign debtcrisis as German Chancellor Angela Merkel came out and said that Germany would not allow an uncontrolled insolvency in Greece. While that gave yesterday's market some ...
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Should you buy 'recession proof' stocks?
Equitymaster.com
What is more, a Greek default will also pressurize Portugal and Ireland to default and the pave the way for recovery however long and arduous that journey may be. For the Eurozone, this solution seems unthinkable as it is worried about the implications ...
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Forex - Psychology/Strategy for major markets today
FXMarketAlerts.com
Concerns over more contagion effects from current eurozone crisis to weigh on Euro, as focus turns to Italy bonds, and French banks USD funding concerns, and Portugal, Ireland as well, givenGreek default concerns. IMF mission chief to Portugal Poul ...
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French banks downgraded before Greece talks
StarAfrica.com
Moody's ratings agency downgraded two top French banks in a new lurch for theeurozone crisis on Wednesday which Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski warned could destroy the European Union. "Europe is in danger," Rostowski, whose country holds the ...
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StarAfrica.com
Can Europe Avoid the Sovereign Sequel?
Minyanville.com
My fear on the latter matter -- which is lock-step consistent with the first phase of the financial crisis -- is that if the EU kicks Greece to the curb, Portugal will come into the crosshairs. IfPortugal is excused, Spain will emerge as the target, ...
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Alarm over euro zone crisis grows | Stuff.co.nz
International alarm over Europe's debt crisis has reached new heights, with US President Barack Obama pressing the bloc's big countries to show leadership as talk of a Greek default escalated and markets heaped pressure on Italy. ... countries are unable to unite behind a common approach to thecrisis. Merkel faces intense pressure at home to resist new steps to shore up weak euro zonecountries after agreeing to bailouts of GreeceIreland and Portugal over the past 15 months. ...
Stuff.co.nz - Business
China, US raise alarm over euro debt crisis - Business - Mail ...
China and the United States urged Europe's leaders to prevent the eurozone debt mess from spreading, underlining the international alarm over a crisis now threatening Italy, the zone's third-biggest economy. President Barack Obama urged ... Credit markets are factoring in a 90% chanceGreece will default on its debts and they demanded the highest risk premium on Italian five-year bonds at auction on Tuesday since the country joined the euro in 1999. "What we have to take note of ...
Mail & Guardian News Feed
WGN - International alarm over euro zone crisis grows
Category: National News, Sub Category: National News, , _id: 64681667, _itemType: ...BERLIN/ROME (Reuters) - International alarm over Europe's debt crisis ... sought to quash talk of an imminent Greek default or exit from the euro zone, but ... agreeing to bailouts of Greece, Irelandand Portugal over the past 15 months. ...
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International alarm over euro zone crisis grows - Yahoo! UK ...
International alarm over euro zone crisis grows. ... UK & Ireland Finance ... alarm over Europe(Chicago Options: ^REURTRUSD - news) 's debt crisis reached .... Chinese leaders have repeatedly offered verbal support to Greece, Portugal and ...
uk.finance.yahoo.com/.../International-alarm-euro-zone-reuter...

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