DEVELOPMENT: More Urgent Measures Needed from IDB
MEDELLÍN, Colombia, Mar 31 (IPS) – The financial, environmental and social crises shaking the world today face the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) with demands and expectations it cannot meet, because of the limitations seen at its 50th annual meeting, which ended Tuesday in this Colombian city.
RIGHTS-MEXICO: Verdict Strengthens Dirty War Impunity
MEXICO CITY, Mar 27 (IPS) – For decades, prosecutors, historians, activists and the families of victims of the political violence of the late 1960s and the 1970s in Mexico have blamed former president Luis Echeverría for the 1968 massacre of student protesters in Tlatelolco square in the capital and the disappearance of hundreds of people in the country’s “dirty war” on leftists and other dissidents.
Sustainable Power reveals initial shipment of hydrogen on demand systems to Dominican Republic – Quick Facts (Nasdaq)
(RTTNews) – Sustainable Power Corp. (SSTP.PK) announced the completion of initial shipment to the Dominican Republic of its computer controlled ‘hydrogen on demand’ Emissions Remediation Systems, or ERS.
Report: MLB prospects being detained in Dominican Republic (ESPN)
Commissioner Bud Selig has given Major League Baseball’s security division an open checkbook in an attempt to clean up off-field scandals in the Dominican Republic and other foreign countries.
Three-way tie in Dominican Republic (UPI)
CAP CANA, Dominican Republic, March 28 (UPI) — Mark O’Meara posted a 7-under-par 65 Saturday to move into a three-way tied for the lead after two rounds of the Cap Cana Championship seniors event.
POLITICS: "People Come First" Say Progressive Leaders
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile, Mar 28 (IPS) – Countries must put people first if they are to prevent the economic recession from becoming a social recession, concluded the two-day gathering of self-styled progressive world leaders that ended Saturday in this Chilean resort city.
MEXICO: "Who Will Help Us?"
MEXICO CITY, Mar 27 (IPS) – Pilar identified seven drug traffickers who allegedly gunned down 12 young people and a baby on a street in the picturesque tourist town of Creel in August in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. The authorities also know who they are. But not one of the suspects has been arrested.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/US-MEXICO: Clinton Visit Has Aura of Drug Intervention
WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (IPS) – The Barack Obama administration announced this week that it will augment already massive foreign aid to its southern neighbour in a bid to help Mexico fight cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S., as well as sending a series of high-level U.S. officials to Mexico to consult with their counterparts.
Fugitive of the Week also a fugitive in Jamaica (WKYC Cleveland)
CLEVELAND — A fugitive from Jamaica on the run in Northeast Ohio is the Fugitive of the Week.
POLITICS: Arab-Latam Bid for a Diverse World
DOHA, Mar 30 (IPS) – The Moors invaded and conquered much of the Iberian Peninsula in 711AD. By the time they were driven out of Granada in 1492, the Arabs had left an indelible racial and cultural imprint. Both the Spanish and Portuguese languages have a marked Arabic influence.
