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$50B Nicaragua Canal project to be worlds largest
CCTV-America But that might all change with construction by the Hong Kong Nicaragua Development Group which is now building roads that will be used to bring even more digging machinery to the Nicaraguan state of Riva to build the $50 billion Grand Nicaragua Canal. |
$50 billion Nicaragua Canal and a 1-Cent Stamp
Miami's Community Newspapers To Senate Leader Mark Hanna, “The canal meant America becoming a commercial world power with our products in shorter shipping distance from both coasts.” Although longer, Nicaragua, with a better climate and terrain, was the favored route and all the ... |
The troubled Puerto Rico bank warns of possible “additional regulatory enforcement actions up to and including the appointment of a receiver or conservator for the bank.”
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A U.S. court has declared a former agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) guilty of leaking information about a plot against Iran’s nuclear program to a reporter of The New York Times.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has announced an in-depth reform of the Intelligence Secretariat with the creation of a federal agency, and described Alberto Nisman’s complaint of covering-up terrorist activities as absurd in her first public appearance after the death of the prosecutor.
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged regulation of the commercial and recreational use of uncrewed aircraft – or drones – a rapidly growing industry, after one of those devices crashed on the White House grounds.
Sales of new homes in the United States increased 11.6 percent in December to an annual rate of 481,000 units, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday noted humanity’s “obligation” to condemn and fight against “rising” anti-Semitism, including the denial of the Holocaust, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
There is nothing more powerful than the voices that are raised to demand freedom and justice for the oppressed peoples, particularly when those voices come from proven democrats of international recognition.
The III Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) being held in Costa Rica will issue a harsh statement against the U.S. trade blockade of Cuba, Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño has announced.
A municipal police chief in the Mexican state of Veracruz was killed and four of his officers badly wounded in an ambush, authorities said.
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The former local chief of Mexico’s conservative National Action Party in this western city was gunned down in front of his home, the Michoacan state police said.
The parents of the 43 students kidnapped four months ago in the southern state of Guerrero say Mexico’s attorney general has no scientific proof to support his assertion that the youths were killed and their bodies burned.
Hunger and death are spreading across Venezuela because of a political project that was supposed to represent a panacea for the poor, and rather ended up being a factory of poverty, misery and marginality.
Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado on Wednesday congratulated Agencia EFE, Spain’s international news agency, on its 75th anniversary and said the Magic City feels “very honored” to host a photo exhibit celebrating the milestone.
"Venezuela is a toxic mishmash of corruption and misrule, and a drop in oil prices has resulted in general shortages, soaring inflation and an increase in repression. The nation that once was a role model for populist governments across Latin America, a system installed by Hugo Chávez, is today a typical case of political and economic dysfunction."
A photo exhibit celebrating the 75th anniversary of Agencia EFE, Spain’s international news agency, opened Thursday in the Puerto Rican capital.
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“Venezuela es una mezcla tóxica de corrupción y desgobierno, y la caída de los precios del petróleo han traído escasez, inflación rampante y un aumento de la represión. El que alguna vez fue un modelo para los gobiernos populistas de América Latina, un sistema instalado por Hugo Chávez, es hoy un caso típico de disfunción política y económica”.
A U.S. judge sentenced an Argentine-born scientist, now a nationalized American, to five years in prison for providing secret nuclear information to an FBI agent posing as a Venezuelan government official, the Justice Department announced.
U.S. President Barack Obama does not plan to return to Cuba the territory on which the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo is located, although he will achieve his aim of closing the prison set up there, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday.
Puerto Rico is implementing a plan to preserve the island’s honey bee population amid a worldwide decline in the insects’ numbers, Agriculture Secretary Myrna Comas Pagan said.
CELAC intends to emerge stronger as a mechanism of integration and as an international bloc with realistic goals such as the eradication of poverty after its third summit being held this week, the regional organization’s officials have said.
The Foreign Ministers of the European Union are due to meet on Thursday to discuss further sanctions on those who are blacklisted for their role in the Ukrainian crisis.
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At almost 79 years of age, Peruvian Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa has taken to the boards at Madrid’s “Teatro Español” to bring to life a character in a play he created but had thought was long dead.
U.S. President Barack Obama has telephoned the new Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras “to congratulate him on his recent election victory,” the White House said in a statement.
Hundreds of people demanded justice at the gates of the funeral home in the capital city of Buenos Aires, where are kept the mortal remains of Prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who died from a shot to the temple in dubious circumstances after accusing the Argentine President for alleged concealment of terrorists.
