tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-266128412011-08-13T03:29:07.814-07:00Desde as Entranhas dos Labirintos Latinos.Alexnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26612841.post-63813989052829935602011-01-24T00:49:00.000-08:002011-08-12T03:02:52.093-07:00

No, you don't need to be rich or win the lottery to make a 6 months trip in you own vehicle around Latin America. Also, you don't need to be Indiana Jones to discover yourself Central America or the incredible South America. Regular people, with run-of-the-mill jobs and real life expenses can save enough cash to buy themselves some freedom for a while. If you are living in the USA, or perhaps

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Latin American politics have moved left. Twelve of the regions countries have held presidential elections since November 2005. Six of the countries in Latin America have elected heads of state that are further to the left than the outgoing leaders. The latest elections in the region have confirmed such trend; the reelection of Lula Silva in Brazil, the ascent to power of Daniel Ortega in

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The list of countries where Russians can travel without visas has become longer. The agreement about non-visa travel between the citizens of Russia and Brazil came into effect on June 7.Russian diplomacy has taken a lot of efforts during the recent years to make the list of visa-free destinations for Russian travelers as long as possible. Russia and Brazil signed the adequate agreement on

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Mexico is the twelfth largest economy on the globe, with a GDP exceeding one trillion dollars. It has the highest per-capita income and the highest purchasing power parity out of all the countries in Latin America. Mexico is also the only South American member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Mexico has been experiencing constant economic growth over the past years.

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Enjoy your Brazil Vacations. The Country that gave birth to carnival, the dazzling costumes and glorious beaches of Brazil, will allure you to the rhythm of the Samba. The mix of colors shows Brazil's great diversity. It has a hospitable spirit unequaled anywhere else in the world. The country of Soccer, good food, exotic beaches, rain forest, waterfalls, and many other topics make Brazil come

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The Central American country of Belize gained its independence from Great Britain in 1981. It is in a tropical region, located in between Mexico and Guatemala and to its east is bordered by the Caribbean Sea. Belize is a very culturally diverse nation, and the only Central American country that has English as its official language. Spanish and Belizean Creole or Kriol are also spoken by the

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Translations Peru seems to always be changing its rules about legal translations and requirements for documents. The first step seems to stay the same and that it to have the Peruvian Consulate or Embassy from where the document was remitted legalise it. In other words, if you were born in California, you need to have the Peruvian Consulate in California legalise your birth certificate before

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By Mica RosenbergMEXICO CITY, July 11 (Reuters) - Mexico City police are investigating classified advertisements posted on the Internet by people offering their services as hired killers for as little as $6,000, police said on Friday.One post on the Web site, which hosts free ads for people selling old home appliances or renting apartments, advertises the services of an "ex-military hitman,

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Tigger Disney Italian charmThis piece has a stunning enamel based picture of Tigger from Whinny the Pooh and his bouncy tail dangling from the charm. What a perfect authentic piece to add to your Disney collection. Stainless steel is great for this charm.Minnie mouse Disney Italian charmLook how stunning Minnie looks on this authentic Italian charm by Disney. Beautiful and intricate details make

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Who was the first athlete elected president in the world? Marcus Stephen is the first sportspeople elected head of state in the world. Nauru's president since 2007, Stephen was one of the Third World's most famous weightlifters in the 1990s. From 1990 to 1994, he won four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games. "I am proud of my achievements in weightlifting and what I have done for Nauru", said

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DID YOU KNOW THAT... Chile has many idols: Claudio Arrau (pianist), Gabriela Mistral (writer), Pablo Neruda (writer), Nicolas Massu (sportsman), Fernando Gonzalez (sportsman), Miriam Hernandez (singer), Cecilia Bolocco (Miss Universe 1987), Isabel Allende (writer), Jorge Edwards (writer), Christian de la Fuente (actor), Roberto Matta (architect), Hernan Büchi (economist), and Jose Piñera (

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I have been talking extensively here about the disruption that has been caused by the Brazilian Air Traffic Controllers white strike. They do not go on strike completely, but they do delay operations so much that the whole system goes through a lot of pain. Well, as if we really needed it, the Federal Police wen on strike for 24 hours today adding insult to injury.The Federal Police takes care

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Los Angeles, CA and Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil (PRWEB) April 23, 2007 -- Organics Brasil, the first nationally sponsored program to export and promote organic products from Brazil, is pleased to announce the arrival of the Organics Brasil products in 25 Whole Foods Market stores in the Southern Pacific Region which include; Southern California, Southern Nevada, and Arizona. Whole Foods Market

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While President Hugo Chávez' Government announced settlement of outstanding debt with the World Bank -USD 52 million-, in parallel it has increased domestic debt. In five months, Venezuelan domestic debt has jumped more than USD 1.2 billion, as the country has launched two issues of Bonds of the South. In November 2006, Venezuela placed USD 1 billion in Bonds of the South, including USD 500

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Latin America has still a long way to run to defeat extreme poverty. According to a report published by the World Bank, 47 million Latin Americans are still living in extreme poverty. The 2007 Global Monitoring Report, a yearly survey conducted by the WB, said the proportion of Latin Americans living on less than USD 1 a day is decreasing "slightly from some 9 percent in 2002 to 8.6 percent in

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Yahoo! News - President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela today announced plans to nationalize the country's power and telecom companies."All of those sectors that in an area so important and strategic for all of us as is electricity — all of that which was privatized, let it be nationalized," Chavez said in a televised speech after swearing in a new Cabinet. "C.A. Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV

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According to the Associated Press, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday received a prototype version of the laptop, which has been billed as a durable low-cost PC for children in developing countries. 50 of the laptops are expected to be tested in Brazilian schools beginning today.Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and founder of

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Some coffee growers in Central America have been disappointed with the minuscule profits they’ve received in order to produce environmentally-responsible, organic, or fair-trade coffee. The costs of producing premium coffee- such as increasing wages, constant inspections, and reducing chemicals- are quite high though fair trade and environmental advocates emphasize that there are other benefits

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Bolivian government officials have said that they are optimistic about receiving recognition from the United States for its anti-drug efforts, which may lead to a renewal of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). The agreement gave Bolivia greater duty-free access to US markets in an effort to provide alternatives to drug producers. (AdelaideNow)BOLIVIA is moderately

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Brazil has taken into Federal custody a British man who has lived in the country for the past ten years. The man, whose name will remain undisclosed, is married to a Brazilian woman and they are raising their two Brazilian born children together. The British citizen's lawyer failed to deliver important paperwork to Brasilia, and the Brasilian federal police picked him up at his house for

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I skipped two Thursday updates for a very simple reason: There is nothing o report! Life in Caracas came to a standstill the weekend befoere Christmas and activity has yet to pick up. In fact, I would say that the level of activity continues to go down. This lack of news happens in part because politicians go away, Government officials go away and people either take vacations or go to their home

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I'm juggling family, friends, work, other sorts of work, research and an unexplainably messed up sleep schedule (my body seems to refuse to sleep before I've been at least thirty hours awake), so there hasn't been much blog-time available this week. Luckly, in Argentina, as in Latin America in general, the holidays are also the traditional beginning of vacaciones, and there hasn't been much to

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The news from Brasil as we head into the holiday break: Statute of Disarmament - calling it a Christmas present for the millions of Brazilians who fight against violence, President Lula signed into law the Estatuto de Desarmamento, which greatly restricts legal access to firearms, increases penalties for illegal possession or use of them, and mandates the immediate destruction of all seized

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In a contest of pure strategic skill, Argentina's Néstor Kirchner could eat George W. Bush for breakfast. Make it Cheney or Rove. Or Cheney and Rove. Consider Bush's strategic scenario: an omnipresent, easy-to-hate enemy of the US, the magically growing american productivity numbers, record corporation profits to turn into campaign donations, and a severely split Democratic party. Pfui! Piece of

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One of the demands from Bolivia's October protests was a constituent assembly to re-found the country and, essentially, rewrite the rules of the democratic game. It's now clear a constituent assembly will happen, though its format's still undecided. But it's important to note that this demand — fervently launched by Mallku, Evo, Solares, and their lot in October — has been picked up by very

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The news from Ecuador this week: Rumble in the Jungle US media outlets are reporting on the ongoing battles between Ecuador's indigenous population and oil companies that want to drill in the Amazon jungle. Reuters says: "In the northern Amazon, Indians are suing a U.S. oil company over environmental damage they say ruined their land and made people sick. Further south, indigenous demonstrators

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It was indeed the week before Christmas as everything slowed down, politics appeared not to matter as Venezuelans began celebrating the Christmas they did not enjoy a year ago due to the general strike. The Government and the opposition continued trading barbs, the Government accusing the opposition of massive fraud in the petition drive to recall Hugo Chavez, and the opposition refusing to hand

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This year's defining economic factoids, courtesy of the United Nations Economic Comission for Latin America, via the often perceptive Financial Times: LatAm is exporting... $41 bn trade surplus (its first in 50 years!) ... -thanks in part to high commodity prices- ... Overall commodity prices rose 15.9 per cent ... and it's actually fiscally conservative! Most countries are running primary

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Last Thursday, people still mostly unidentified stole 700kg of high explosives from a mine operation in the southern state Neuquén. You can do a lot with 700 kg of that stuff, up to an including leveling pretty much an entire city block. Needless to say, everybody was quite worried, as hypothesis from mass jailbreaks to terrorism were put forward. To general relief, the explosives (although not

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The week's news from Brazil "Lulawrence of Arabia" returned from his Middle Eastern journeys and announced that his travels weren't over, with trips planned next year to China and India. He also announced that Brazil is expecting a visit of Vladimir Putin, as the four cornerstone nations of the G20 work to form a new economic bloc to counter the power of the EU and the US. Brazil's Senate

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Samuel Doria Medina's — the richest man in Bolivia — officially left MIR (Movimiento Izquierdista Revolucionario) after 17 years, citing his objections to the party's participation in Goni's government. Of course, Doria Medina's rivalry w/ MIR chief, Jaime Paz Zamora, has been long & complicated. W/ most "traditional" parties in disarray (especially MNR & MIR) after October, many predicted Doria

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As I write this, I can hear through my window cars honking and people screaming in joyous celebration of victory. In my TV screen the Obelisco, but a few blocks away from my apartment, is surrounded by thousands of people waving flags. A bit above half of the country, I'd guess, is currently celebrating. No, it has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein's capture. Argentine soccer team Boca Juniors

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The Short Version: Lula: Maybe we should just make a free trade area between ourselves... Lula's advisers: ..But what we ultimately want are still the consumist, overspending, developed markets. The G-20, in chorus: Free trade - good. Protectionist barriers - bad. At least for the stuff we want to export. The WTO: We're with you in this one, guys. The Really Short Version: Everybody said

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JOHANNESBURG The police here and in Brazil say they have arrested 14 people in a trans-Atlantic scheme to buy human organs from impoverished Brazilians for sale to desperate and ailing recipients in South African hospitals... ... According to the police in Brazil, the operators of the ring canvassed poor neighborhoods for people willing to sell one of their kidneys. Those who volunteered were

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-The National Assembly approved the 2004 budget in the amount of US$ 31.22 billion. The budget assumes a dramatic increase in tax collection of 37% and an increase in oil income of 19%. Moreover, the budget assumes the Government will borrow US$ 11 billion between new internal and external debt. Debt payments will be 45.5% of the budget. -The Chavez administration continued claiming there was

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The two worker's syndicates involved in Bolivia's October revolt — Jaime Solares' COB and Roberto de la Cruz' COR — are threatening to close the national parliament. They're opposed to the return of ex-ministers (Goni's cabinet) to the legislature. Unlike most presidential systems (but like most parliamentary ones) the Bolivian cabinet is often chosen from the legislature. It's a common mistake

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This week Marcelo was once again on about the positive economic relations which are developing between China and Argentina. At the other end of the scale is Mexico. This article from the Providence Journal once more illustrates the problem. And it isn't that Mexico's wages have rocketed upwards, more to the point is that China's wage advantage is enormous. And Mexico has failed to really get the

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I am essentially repeating here a modified form of a post I have just put up over at Fistful of Euros. Understandably the focus is different: who - if anyone - should Latin America endorse in the US presidential elections? As it happens here the big news of the week must be the endorsement of Howard Dean by Al Gore. A somewhat smaller, but still interesting, development - although this isn't

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One blogger, though, Lenin Guerra, posts a lament, lest we be too quick to blame the general state of violence in Rio (emphasis added). Deu no New York Times: a morte do casal de executivos da Shell, Michelle e Zera Todd Staheli, está totalmente vinculada a violencia no Rio de Janeiro. O jornal americano classificou o Rio como uma das cidades mais violentas do mundo. Casos como esse contribuem

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This hasn't been a week on momentous events in Argentina, but there's a definite pattern of revisiting old battles, and of forces maneuvering in the current ones. With the formal beginning of President Kirchner's mandate [if De La Rua had served his whole term], today the country is celebrating a full two decades of democratic -if some times patchy- government, a remarkable achievement by all

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No, this is not a story about a historic R&B combo, but rather the lastest will you won't you (or rather, did you, didn't you) story in the great globalisation of food debate. According to MSNBC Deadly scallions traced to Mexico Federal health investigators have determined that a deadly outbreak of hepatitis A among restaurant diners in Tennessee, Georgia and Pennsylvania was caused by green

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Since taking office, President Lula has spent an extraordinary amount of time outside Brazil, ostensibly attempting to establish a new political and economic alliance of developing countries. While the people broadly support Lula's travels (52% support them, 30% oppose them), local critics are beginning to suggest that he ought to spend more time at home, minding the store; making sure his

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Part of the Bolivian government's new gas & oil plan was finally unveiled today. And, yes, it's pretty much the same as what Goni's plan proposed. After international gas & oil exports pronounced the obvious — that Bolivia can't afford to industrialize its gas reserves (something that's very capital and technology intensive, two things which Bolivia lacks) and that it's internal market wouldn't

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Yesterday it was announced that here in Brazil, two large supermarket chains, Pуo de Aч·car (currently Brazil's largest) and Sendas, the largest in Rio de Janeiro state, where Pуo is not very well-established yet, are planning a merger. The details were fuzzy, but it looks like some kind of a share swap and joint operation will be taking place. Pуo de Aч·car (which is the trading name of its

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The week's news from Brazil Last week the government agreed to extend the top tax rate at 27.5% for the next two years without concessions to higher-rate tax payers. The move extends an earlier temporary amendment, first approved under the previous government, which shows signs of becoming more or less permanent. Otherwise it's been a fairly quiet week on the political front, with Lula and his

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This The Economist's article posted at Bonobo Land by Edward is a remarkably good one, but it can bear a few extra notes (an article, as a poem, is never finished, just abandoned): As Edward noted, a decisive source of fiscal income has been the taxes on agricultural exports, chiefly among them soy products, of which China is a big consumer. Although income from internal demand is rising, next

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Ecuador News Round-Up The news from la mitad del mundo this week: Things are still looking bleak for Ecuadorian president Lucio Gutierrez. The nation's indigenous movement is stepping up pressure on Lucio; they say they helped get him elected and now he's turned his back on their cause. Reuters says Pachakutik, the political arm of the movement, is demanding his resignation. In addition,

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Reuters tells us that "sixteen prisoners have escaped from an Ecuadorean jail by digging a tunnel so elaborate that it had electric lights. The prisoners escaped late on Tuesday from Quito's main Garcia Moreno prison in the heart of its colonial section by digging an illuminated tunnel that was nearly 85-feet (25-metres) long and nearly 2-1/2 feet (70 cm) high."Electric lights! Necessity, as they

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The BBC reports that the nine Bangladeshi nationals that had been detained over suspicions of terrorism have been released, as no evidence of links to terrorist organizations or activities could be found.I feel better, I bet they feel better, we all feel better. And Miguel (inside the comments to the previous post on the matter) was probably right - the argentine press was just taking its time

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As you can read in Bolivian authorities are currently interrogating 9 (not 16 or 20 as previously reported) Bangladeshi nationals, arrested after the French authorities warned of a possible plot to hijack a plane in the La Paz-Buenos Aires route and crash it against US targets in the Argentine capital. The article lists their names and ages, all of them between 24 and 30... Which means nothing by

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Our referrer logs are full of Staheli-related hits, so I thought I'd publish a brief update.Michele Staheli died yesterday after 4 days in critical condition. Her condition worsened during the week and she was said to have no neurological function and no recovery was expected. She suffered cardiac failure caused by the swelling in her brain. Her body has been sent for autopsy, and it is believed

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Argentine TV news channel Cronica has just informed that around 20 "terrorists from Pakistan" have been arrested in La Paz, Bolivia. They were suspected, Cronica reports, to have intended to travel to Buenos Aires (as you might recall, there was a cautionary report about possible terrorist activities targeting Argentina).Now, Cronica is... well, anybody who have ever watched it knows that it's

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All the information available so far seems to come from release of ABI (the Bolivian government's press agency). It indicates that 16 Muslim people from Bangladesh -that's not the same country as Pakistan, Crónica!- have been arrested following a tip by French authorities that they could be implicated in a (presumptive) plan to hijack a plane in the La Paz-Santa Cruz-Buenos Aires route and direct

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A travщs de Caretas me he enterado que el Presidente Toledo finalmente se pronunciс sobre el informe de la Comisiєn de la Verdad acerca de la guerra desencadenada por Sendero Luminoso, el grupo terrorista que mсs muerte y dolor ocasionє al Peru entre los aёos 80's y 90's.Yo no he leido a·n el informe del Presidente, que, al parecer, estuvo bien. Pero lo mсs sensato que he leido al respecto hasta

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Tuesday, December 2, 2003 The Brazilian Committee for the Implementation of Free Software will release code under the Free Software Foundation's General Public License, with Creative Commons providing new human- and machine-readable packaging Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, and Tokyo, JAPAN - The government of Brazil today announced its adoption of the CC-GPL, an innovation on the Free Software

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Bolivian politics is usually rather odd. The last few months, of course, that's taken on greater proportions. A president was toppled, after all, in a populist coup. Now there's a popular joke about the new president, Carlos Mesa. Why is Mesa like Carnaval? Because you're not sure if he falls in February or March. In two months, Mesa's gone from distant academic to populist to constitutional

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Mexican President Vicente Fox completed the first half of his six-year term on Monday amid increasing criticism that he has failed to live up to promises made during his election campaign: especially those related to economic growth and reform. In the last two years Mexico's economy has been struggling to pick up steam following a recession in 2001. In 2002 GDP expanded a modest 0.9 percent.

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Well I'm back after a bit of an enforced absence, and busy trying to find a role for myself. I wouldn't mind following Marcelo's lead and being the magical realism correspondent. Since he really has taken this as his own, I'll go for second best and try and cover things Mexican. So what better way to get this show started than to look at the news of todays happenings in the Partido Revolutionario

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The Budget Law for 2004: The Senate approved the Budget Law for 2004. Giving the executive branch ample powers to administrate public finances, it assumes a GDP growth of 4% for the year, a conservative figure given this year's 7.3% growth estimate (of course, rebounds are always easier than further growth...). A record touristic season is expected: For this summer, Buenos Aires' tourism

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This year when I visited Salvador, Bahia, I had the pleasure of meeting and staying with Bira Reis. Musician, percussion instructor and renowned researcher, restorer of the instruments of the famed musical theorist and mystic Walter Smetak, leader of the alternative drum troop Bloco Kizumba, etc... Bira also runs a great musical instrument store located centrally in Pelourinho and a bed and

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The opposition gathered as many as 3.6 million signatures to request a recall referendum against President Hugo Ch├бvez, despite the intimidation by the Government and the number of difficulties imposed on the process. Only 2.4 million signatures are required to have a valid request for the recall, while the opposition would need 3.8 million votes in the referendum in order to recall Ch├бvez

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The week's news from BrazilGDP Growth - Brazil's GDP (PIB) emerged from a short recession in the third quarter, but its growth by only 0.4% was not as strong as was anticipated. Growth in the industrial sector was weighed down by a 6.7% quarter-on-quarter reduction in the agricultural sector, which is mainly the result of lower receipts in the aftermath of Brazil's record soybean harvest.

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The opposition began today gathering the signatures in the event called the "Reafirmazo" to have a recall referendum against President Hugo Chavez. From early in the morning huge lines have formed in all areas of Caracas and the country. In contrast to last week's petition drive by the pro-Chavez forces, where polling stations were mostly empty, today most polling stations had lines of more than

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Ecuador News Round-UpHere's the news from Ecuador this week:President Gutierrez: The Next Goni? Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutierrez has found himself embroiled in a scandal that could cost him his job.Gutierrez is accused of accepting a $30,000 campaign contribution from Cesar Fernandez, a suspected drug trafficker. Congress is investigating, and Gutierrez has said (though he later changed his

Alexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26612841.post-1147766662957787892003-11-28T09:45:00.000-08:002006-05-16T01:04:22.960-07:00

At the risk of treading on Hank's territory, I regard taste in music as very personal, so I am loathe to criticize any particular artist outside the pop mainstream. Nevertheless, I remember in a college class called "Persuasion: Theory and Analysis" how often it was enough for something to be new and different to win over an audience, even if there were legitimate criticisms as to quality and

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It's easy to see why the literary genre "magical realism" is so typically Latin American: it's actually not that far away from what passes for reality here. If you read last Wednesday's wrap up of news from Argentina, you might remember a paragraph about Adolfo Rodriguez Saá, formerly the President of Argentina for a few days, former Governor of the state of San Luis and now member of the lower

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The BBC Brasil site is reporting this morning about a large march on the streets of Mexico City. Thousands of trade unionists, peasants and activists were marching against the Fox government's proposed reforms, including the planned privatisation of the electricity sector and the imposition of a value-added tax (IVA). The report suggests the march, which came off peacefully, had the support of

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Recall elections were the only game in town last week and this week. Last week supporters of Hugo Chavez had their chance at recalling opposition Deputies to the National Assembly. The results were not very good fo Chavez' MVR, turnout was low, despite the huge resources spent by Chavez and his party to get the vote out. The initial reaction by Chavez and his Vice-President was to be conciliatory

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After nearly a year of protests and strikes, including an invasion of the floor of the congress and an extraordinary week's work stoppage by the country's federal magistrates in August, and despite partisan grandstanding up to the last minute, the Brazilian Senate finally approved yesterday the first reading of the proposed constitutional amendment setting out the basis of pension reform for

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Paul Krugman's most visible work might nowadays be his NY Times columns about budgetary issues and the war in Iraq, but let's not forget the reason why he got the job in the first place: he's one of the sharpest economists in the world, a referent in issues of international trade, and a damn fine writer. These days, with the relationship between the US and Latin America at its lowest point in a

Alexnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26612841.post-1147766357990682852003-11-27T01:58:00.000-08:002011-08-12T03:30:53.469-07:00

Miguel sent some media links for Venezuela that I've added to the national links section: El Universal On-line is one of Venezuela's national newspapers, the last one with free content. Globovision is a site for a 24-hour news network in Venezuela, with live breaking news. Venezuela Today is a portal site, a "one-stop source for the latest news and information." I also added a link to the

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I've added a couple of weblogs in Portuguese to the blogroll at right.Economia Everywhere is a 3-man effort commenting on economic topics in the news, usually with an amusing spin.Austriaco is intelligent insights and interviews from the keyboard of Lucas Mendes. I've also started by adding some country-specific links for Brazil and Argentina in the links section. Meta-message to my fellow SE

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Voting early and often: There were a few elections at the state level and below during the weekend, consolidating president Kirchner's power by giving him his own majority in Congress, and the support of most governors. The state of EntreRíos' governorship went to justicialist candidate Jorge Busti (with the explicit support of President Kirchner), while in the southernmost state, Tierra del

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Brasil's Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, has been involved in developing a new standard Creative Commons "some-rights-reserved" license to encourage the sampling of original works by others: The Sampling Licenses Inspired by world-famous musician and composer Gilberto Gil and developed with the help of the veteran found-art group Negativland, Creative Commons will launch our new Sampling

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The week's news from BrazilFree Trade - By agreeing to disagree (for now), the US and Brazil, the region's two largest economies, managed to put aside the toughest issues remaining between them in order to keep the FTAA (ALCA) negotiations on-track for a 2005 rollout. Some critics are calling the current version "ALCA light", "menu ALCA", and "ALCA a la brasileira." Brazil held fast to

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It seems Mesa's finally realized he'll never befriend the populist left, no matter how hard he tries. So he's back to being a constitutional democrat, giving the middle class a huge collective sigh of relief. In the past few weeks, Mesa & his ministers did everything in their power to appease the demands of syndicalist dirigentes like Felipe Quispe, Evo Morales, Angel Duran, Jaime Solares,

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I came across the Houston Chronicle's lengthy summary of Brazil's current domestic situation via Danny Yee's Pathologically Polymathic weblog. It's a pretty thorough laundry list of the difficulties facing Lula as he nears the one-year point of his presidency. I thought I'd add that in my own experiences, while people are starting to ask hard questions about how much of the government's

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If not for a copy left behind by a visiting friend, I would have missed this little tidbit from the front page of the November 12th Independent (UK) (and evidently the NY Times), archived on the Truthout website, about the UK's reduction in its International Development budget, redirecting the funds from a programme to conserve Brazil's rainforest into their ┬г540m rebuilding effort in Iraq.

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Chavez supporters began yesterday to gather signatures requesting the recall of opposition Deputies to the National Assembly. While leaders from Chavez' MVR party are calling it a success, the truth is that very few people are seeing in the polling stations. Some sporadic lines formed yesterday when some polling places run out of the electoral material. I have placed some pictures in my site of

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This week's news from latitude zero: Tension between Ecuador and Colombia continues to mount; Ecuador says FARC rebels are setting up camps inside Ecuadorian terroritory. And Colombia claims Ecuadorian military personnel are selling weapons, via the black market, to Colombian rebels. Reuters reports that "Ecuador's army destroyed a Colombian rebel base in the dense jungle between the two

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Gray Newman and Luis Arcentales of Morgan-Stanley commented yesterday on Argentina's impressive GDP growth for 2003 and 2004, revising their projections to 7.2% this year and 6.0% in 2004 (higher than their last estimates, while still lower than the Argentine government's). While they, I think, underestimate the political importance of the fiscal income levied out of exports, they make the very

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Brazil's Environmentalists Crying Foul By LARRY ROHTER New York Times, November 21, 2003 BRASILIA - The environmental movement celebrated when Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected Brazil's president in October last year. More than a year later, though, that relationship is in danger of falling apart, with environmentalists talking of betrayal. On virtually every major issue - from Amazon

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There has been an anti-FTAA protest in Buenos Aires; given the givens, that's not really unexpected, and the scope of it was hardly massive. While the war with Irak was strongly opposed by a big portion of the Argentine population, the FTAA has (not surprisingly) failed to excite that kind of reaction. Nonetheless, "the street" in Argentina doesn't want any continent-wide free trade agreement.

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Protesters Tell a Different Tale of Free Trade Published on Thursday, November 20, 2003 by the Los Angeles Times Activists gathered in Miami to counter treaty negotiations by 34 nations warn that Latin American workers face growing misery. by John-Thor Dahlburg MIAMI - From Mexican sweatshops and peasant farms in the Amazon to Spanish-speaking neighborhoods of the United States, protesters have

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Diputados (the "lower house" of the Argentine legislative body), gave half sanction to the 2004 national budget. The budget foresees expenditures for 59.708 million pesos out of 62.000 million pesos of income (assuming a 4% GDP growth rate and annual inflation between 9 and 11%). It also gives the executive branch plenty of flexibility to allocate resources, and a high degree of control over the

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US Department of State Press Statement Richard Boucher, Spokesman Washington, DC November 17, 2003 The United States Government has completed the 2003 annual estimates of coca cultivation in Peru and Bolivia. The estimates -- produced with survey-sampling techniques and satellite imagery -- indicate that overall coca cultivation levels continue to be lower for Peru and Bolivia than in the past

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In a move that I'm still trying to wrap my head around, even if intellectually I know the reasons for, the U.S. will set quotas limiting the growth of certain Chinese textile exports to the country. This isn't properly a news item related to Latin America, except that it illustrates what chance the southern countries ever had of getting any sort of meaningful concessions from the USA in the FTAA

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Luz para todos - The Brazilian government announced last Tuesday the launch of a new program designed to bring electricity to the 2.5 million Brazilian homes (5% of all homes) currently without. The ambitious goal is to complete this task by 2008. I say ambitious because the majority of these households are in the very rural Amazon and Northeast regions, with a half million in Bahia state alone.

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It's been less than a month since Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada (aka Goni) resigned as Bolivia's president. Things went back to normal; Mesa was given a honeymoon period to try to govern and appease the myriad of social demands (such as the issue of gas exports) that drove Goni from office. That honeymoon clearly ended last week. Despite Mesa's efforts to negotiate w/ (and even his praise for) some

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-Venezuela's Electoral Board (CNE) decided by a vote of three to two, that Venezuelans abroad will not be able to participe in the petition drive to ask for a recall referendum for Hugo Chavez' mandate. The Board said that there was not enough time to set the petition drive abroad with sufficient supervision, leaving many wondering what good are the country's Embassies and Consulates abroad. -

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From the helpful Expats site in Rio, too much information about the theft of a US consular car at an intersection in Rio: According to the police report Leslie was robbed of her diplomatic ID badge, credit card, cellular, a leather lamp cover, leather wallet, and the keys to her apartment. Mary also had her house keys, cellular, her aboriginal collection, among rugs and ceramics valued at R$

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Interesting how in the space of one month three different publications: The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and Spain' El Pais (unfortunately, all by subscription only), devote articles to the family that created Kola Real. Kola Real was created by the Anano family in Peru during the worst times of the Shining Path guerrilla movement. The family had to flee its farm and moved to the city of

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The Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) reported that the Venezuelan economy shrank by 7.1% in the third quarter 2003. For the year the Venezuelan economy has shrank by a total of 14.7%. Quarter to quarter there was a slight improvement from -9.4% in the second quarter. The report by the central bank indicates that the oil sector shrank by 9% during the quarter, while the non-oil economy shrank by 6%,

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And it's a generally optimistic one, pointing out that Peru seems to have weathered well the problems that have affected the rest of the region, and that "the near-term outlook remains favorable, but medium-term growth prospects could be dampened by the political environment". The full PDF report can be downloaded here http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2003/cr03355.pdf

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As we anticipated yesterday, the Congress has approved the extension of the Economic Emergency Law until December 2004. Besides fixing the ground rules for the painful post-convertibility transition (which played havoc with the banking system and savings), the law gives President Kirchner powers to renegotiate the contracts of the privatized utility companies. I don't think they are feeling very

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I imagine that this was, more or less, the gist of the trade talks: (Outside the negotiation room people chant: "We don't want free trade! We don't want free trade!" Inside, the delegates from Brazil and the US are sitting stiffly in front of each other, while the rest of the delegates look at them.) US: Those people outside are being silly. We want free trade. Brazil: We certainly do. Trade is

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Things are changing on the globalisation front, and fast. Yesterday Marcelo was pointing out just how the post default export profile of Argentina has been changing. Today MSNBC looks forward to the next FTAA round, and asks some of the right questions. After Cancun, just where is globalisation heading? Are we going to see a series of bilateral arrangements? If the US drives home an agreement

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has released its white paper about Corporate Governance in Latin America. As recent and not so recent experience indicates, good corporate governance is a difficult issue, even for developed countries. ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)November 2003Latin American White Paper on Corporate GovernancePlan for Latin

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Brazil believes that free software is an excellent tool for the democratization of knowledge, foreign currency savings, and the optimization of institutional investments and costs. The model also offers perspectives for Brazilian industries to research, create, and develop new free software programs. - BRAZZIL this link was found on WorldChanging.com

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If you don't know the music of Brasil's Minister of Culture, Soy Loco Por Ti America is as good as any place to start. Gilberto Gil was exiled from his country by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 60's, and in exile he wrote the beautiful celebration of Rio de Janeiro's beauty, "Aquele Abraco", which starts off this record. He has made it his mission to develop lesser known cultural

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