Latin America – PERU-CHINA: Social Responsibility Missing in Growing Trade Ties
PERU-CHINA: Social Responsibility Missing in Growing Trade Ties
LIMA, Feb 3 (IPS) – China has become Peru’s second largest trade partner, with interests basically in mining and oil. However, it is viewed with caution by this Andean nation, because the Asian giant has a reputation for flouting environmental standards and labour rights.
CUBA: Women Knitting for Change
HAVANA, Feb 5 (IPS) – A neighbour started calling Andrea del Sol “Perseverance,” and the name stuck. Since 1998, she and a small group of women from Alamar, on the outskirts of the Cuban capital, have been throwing their combined energies behind a common purpose: “changing things.”
Man faces extradition to Puerto Rico after arrest (Connecticut Post)
BRIDGEPORT — Police investigating a report of shots fired on Calhoun Avenue early Saturday arrested a 34-year-old man for an alleged murder in Puerto Rico.
MEXICO: Street Stalls, Web Visible Face of Neo-Nazism
MEXICO CITY, Feb 5 (IPS) – Street stalls in the centre of the Mexican capital openly display books and publications that are sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and Nazism, indicating that there is public demand for such items.
Puerto Rico sheds ‘ugly duckling’ status (Major League Baseball)
Puerto Rico sheds ‘ugly duckling’ status
COSTA RICA: Luxury Homeowners Evade Solidarity Tax
SAN JOSÉ, Feb 4 (IPS) – The first attempt to collect a new tax on luxury homes in Costa Rica has ended in failure, in spite of the fact that it is a solidarity tax entirely devoted to building social housing for slum-dwellers.
NICARAGUA: Can Army Protect Plundered Forest Reserves?
MANAGUA, Feb 1 (IPS) – The Nicaraguan state has embarked on an iron-fisted policy, including the use of military force, to clamp down on those responsible for environmental depredation, after repeated denunciations by organisations and government officials that the country’s two largest biosphere reserves are being plundered.
Costa Rica elects Chinchilla first woman president (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Laura Chinchilla, a protege of Nobel peace laureate President Oscar Arias, won a landslide election victory in Costa Rica on Sunday to become the country’s first woman elected president.
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