Friday, March 29, 2013

12:42 PM 3/29/2013

12:42 PM 3/29/2013



Not doing it better: Puerto Rico sends mixed tax signals, spooks ...
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Thanks in part to its pitch of gorgeous beaches, excellent private schools and low taxes, Puerto Rico has already attracted a number of millionaire hedge fund managers and business executives. Island officials claim that ...
Mormon FBI special agent performs dangerous water rescue in Puerto Rico - Deseret News
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Mormon FBI special agent performs dangerous water rescue in Puerto Rico
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Meanwhile, three Puerto Rican young men bobbed helplessly in the ocean out of sight, well beyond the final line of waves that punished the beach. Two of them would somehow find their way to safety and plead for help for the third. He was drowning, they ...

Why All Governors Need A 'Empleos Ahora' (Jobs Now) Tax Haven Strategy Like ... - Forbes
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Why All Governors Need A 'Empleos Ahora' (Jobs Now) Tax Haven Strategy Like ...
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One could argue that the new face of American leadership can be found in Puerto Rico. Take, for example, newly elected Governor Alejandro Garcἰa Padilla. He won a narrow election in what could someday be America's 51st state, on an island with 3.7 ...

Brazilian LGBT Advocates Beaten, One Arrested
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Photo by Cícero Bezerra shared bu Homofobia Não on Facebook.
Photo by Cícero Bezerra shared by Homofobia Não on Facebook.
On March 27, a protest against the recent election of congressman and controversial evangelical preacher Marco Feliciano as chairman of the Committee for Human Rights and Minorities in the Brazilian Deputy Chamber ended withrepression against LGBT rights advocates. On Youtube, Rodrigo Grassi shared the moment when one of the protestors was arrested.
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PHOTOS: Street Art Celebrates Chavismo
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ans his Bolivarian revolution are kept alive through street art in Mérida, Venezuela. Photo via Venezuelan Analysis, under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian revolution are kept alive through street art in Mérida, Venezuela. Photo via Venezuelan Analysis, under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)
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