URUGUAY: A Chance to Leave Poverty Behind
MONTEVIDEO, Sep 3 (IPS) – Nilda Barboza gets up at 3:00 AM every day to make it on time to her new job in an upscale neighbourhood in the Uruguayan capital from her home in an outlying area. But she does so with a sense of pride, for being one of tens of thousands of people who is no longer among the ranks of the poor, thanks to a government anti-poverty programme.
MUSIC-BRAZIL: A School Without Teachers
BARBACENA, Brazil, Sep 4 (IPS) – The participation of renowned professional musicians as instructors and special guests at workshops, instead of academic professors, is what sets Brazil’s Bituca University of Popular Music apart, and is earning it a reputation as a model of experimentation and excellence in music education.
Mexican Gulf state candidate, wife, 2 sons killed (AP via Yahoo! News)
Gunmen killed a state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons in their home Saturday in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico.
POLITICS-CENTRAL AMERICA: Falling Out and Falling Apart?
SAN JOSÉ, Sep 1 (IPS) – The late June coup d’état in Honduras was a body blow to political integration in Central America. The institutions of the regional integration process have been incapable of reacting to the event, leaving the future of the process increasingly uncertain and trade agreements, themselves in poor shape, as the only viable way forward, experts say.
3 Chicago children taken by father to Mexico are back with relatives (Chicago Tribune)
Authorities still seek Benito Casanova, who is charged in the 2008 death of his kids’ mother, Sofia Garcia Three children missing since their mother was killed on the Northwest Side last year spent Saturday reunited with family in Chicago after they were found in Mexico this summer.
SOUTH AMERICA: Glaciers – Going, Going…Gone?
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 6 (IPS) – South America is perhaps most often associated with the Amazon jungle, the world’s largest tropical rainforest. But along its western edge, from Ecuador to southern Chile and Argentina, it also harbours huge glaciers which are rapidly melting due to global warming.
DEVELOPMENT: Brazil, India, South Africa to Broaden “Voice of the South”
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 1 (IPS) – The sixth ministerial meeting of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) forum agreed Tuesday in Brasilia to strengthen the dialogue between the three emerging powers in order to establish common positions on regional and international matters and boost South-South cooperation.
URUGUAY: Development from the Ground Up
MONTEVIDEO, Sep 2 (IPS) – Putting people, not the economy, at the centre of development by coordinating and designing initiatives based on the interests of the target populations themselves is the goal of the Support to Territorial Networks (ART) programme, which is growing year after year in Uruguay.
Mexico catches suspect in border incursion, deaths (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mexican soldiers arrested a suspected drug gang leader linked to a 2006 border incursion by armed traffickers into Texas and the killing of an anti-crime activist in July, the army said late Saturday.
BRAZIL: More Growth, Less Carbon
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 3 (IPS) – Achieving sustainable growth is one of the major challenges facing Brazil, an emerging power and the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. To do this it will have to curb emissions, 30 percent of which are caused by industry and power generation.
US-HONDURAS: State Dept Condemns "Coup d'Etat", Curtails Aid
WASHINGTON, Sep 3 (IPS) – Frustrated by the continued intransigence of the Honduran regime that ousted President Manuel Zelaya, the U.S. State Department followed through Wednesday on threats to cut off aid to Honduras.
CHILE: Alleged Human Rights Abusers on Army Payroll
SANTIAGO, Sep 2 (IPS) – Thirteen retired military officers facing prosecution for human rights crimes and corruption as well as one who has been convicted are still on the Chilean army’s payroll.
Dominican Republic national arrested on drug dealing charges (The Newark Post)
New Castle County Safe Streets Officers have arrested Julio Maladonado, a 22 year old male who resides in the 500 block of S. DuPont Highway, near the split of Routes 40 and 7.
