Published on Aug 21, 2014
El Secretario de Estado David Bernier conversa con el equipo de Jugando Pelota Dura sobre la visita del embajador de Colombia y la relación de este país caribeño con Puerto Rico. Además, habla sobre la enseñanza del inglés en las escuelas públicas y el nuevo censo de las corporaciones.
Por otro lado, Benier reacciona a las querellas que enfrentan jueces en el Tribunal de Caguas.
Por otro lado, Benier reacciona a las querellas que enfrentan jueces en el Tribunal de Caguas.
Interviews underway for Puerto Rico's PREPA restructuring chief - sources
MSN Money Aug 20 (Reuters) - Candidates are being interviewed this week for a chief restructuring officer atPuerto Rico's struggling power authority, two people briefed on the matter told Reuters. ThePuerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or PREPA, must hire a ... and more » |
Argentina defends plan to pay creditors outside US - Caribbean Business
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buenos aires, argentina — argentina will make its next round of scheduled debt payments, the economy minister said wednesday as he defended a new plan to pay creditors locally and avoid the jurisdiction of a u.s. court that forced the country into default last month.
En manos de Nicolás Maduro se aceleró en Venezuela la caída en picada que se inició en los últimos años de Hugo Chávez. No ha podido ni ha querido enmendar las diversas y profundas distorsiones que 15 años de revolución han enquistado en el país.
What the CIA is trying to hideby jpicard@thehill.com (Katherine Hawkins)
Beginning in the 1990s, and accelerating after September 11, the CIA flew terrorism suspects to secret police custody in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, and Libya. Many of them were tortured. Starting in 2002, the CIA began operating secret prisons...
Armenia threatens Azerbaijan with missilesby jpicard@thehill.com (Denis Jaffe)
The president of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, recently threatened to unleash short-range ballistic missiles (SRBM) against vibrant Azerbaijani cities, such as its capital Baku, thus turning these civilian targets, with millions of residents, into ruins...
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Canada’s Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday blamed the runaway train disaster that killed 47 people in tiny Lac-Mégantic in July last year on a “weak safety culture” at Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway and poor oversight by Canadian regulators.
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Hedge funds spark review of Puerto Rico economy
Financial Times Hedge funds speculating on Puerto Rican bonds are claiming that a 60-year miscalculation ofeconomic statistics may have caused investors to underestimate the island's ability to pay down its $70bn of debt. Figures for the country's gross national ... |
Puerto Rico's CRO duties to include financial restructuring
Reuters NEW YORK Aug 19 (Reuters) - The new role of chief restructuring officer at Puerto Rico's electric power authority PREPA will include both financial and operational restructuring, according to a document posted on the website of Puerto Rico's Government ... Despite Creditor Agreements, Puerto Rico Utility Restructuring Likely - FitchBarron's (blog) Puerto Rico GO bonds trade at more than 3-month highMSN Money all 7 news articles » |
Puerto Rico to use old traffic network to lay fiber-optic cables
Fox News Latino Puerto Rico's government plans to use an old traffic-signal network in San Juan to lay fiber-optic cables in Santurce, a district being developed as the island's tech center and an engine for job creation, officials said. The Puerto Rican ... and more » |
Interviews underway for Puerto Rico's PREPA restructuring chief - sources
Reuters Aug 20 (Reuters) - Candidates are being interviewed this week for a chief restructuring officer atPuerto Rico's struggling power authority, two people briefed on the matter told Reuters. ThePuerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or PREPA, must hire a ... and more » |
Puerto Rico's CRO duties to include financial restructuring
MSN Money NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The new role of chief restructuring officer at Puerto Rico'selectric power authority PREPA will include both financial and operational restructuring, according to a document posted on the website of Puerto Rico's ... and more » |
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Law enforcement personnel in the U.S. state of Missouri interfered with two German journalists who went to the town of Ferguson to cover disturbances sparked by a fatal police shooting, a representative of Reporters Without Borders said on Tuesday.
Venezuela has increased the pace of the decline that began during the last years of the late Hugo Chávez in the hands of his successor, Nicolás Maduro. Maduro has been unable and has not wanted to amend the diverse and profound distortions that have become entrenched in the country during 15 years of “revolution.”
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Residents of Latin American Feel Least Safe in Global Survey, Fueling ...
Latin Post ... York, spiced by Latin American newcomers. The infusion of Mexican, South and Central American immigrants has sprinkled fresh ingredients into a Hispanic casserole once flavored mainly by Dominicans and Puerto Ricans. (Photo : REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz ... |
Ecuador is One of the Victims of a Cyber Espionage Campaign
Prensa Latina The campaign, called 'Machete' by the Russian company in reference to a weapon widely used in the region, was discovered in 2013 when a general manager of a Latin American country, came from a trip to China and suspected his computer was infected. and more » |
Argentina defends plan to pay creditors outside US
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina will make its next round of scheduled debt p ...
 Bhatia: Education and Health must pay electric bills in 30 days
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A Castro makes history with ‘no’ vote in Cuba - Caribbean Business
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havana — yet another revolutionary tradition has been broken in cuba: a lawmaker voted “no” in parliament.
Fitch: Prepa still likely to restructure debt - Caribbean Business
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They also do little to address Fitch's longer-term rating concerns that Prepa�s net cash receipts and existing funds on hand remain insufficient to meet ongoing working capital, debt service and other funding requirements,� Fitch said.
Report: Hedge funds say PR economy, ability to pay debt, underestimated - Caribbean Business
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The report published Wednesday cited a presentation circulating among certain hedge funds that contends that Puerto Rico�s gross national product may have grown between 3 percent and 11 percent in real terms since 2005.
Top court beefs up oversight of judges - Caribbean Business
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puerto rico supreme court chief justice liana fiol matta is launching a specialized unit to handle corruption and ethics claims against island judges.
Ultrafast network project gains ground - Caribbean Business
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puerto ricos planned $17 million investment to create an ultra-high-speed internet network in a projected san juan tech hub took a step forward this week with an accord to use an old traffic-signal network to lay fiber-optic cables in santurce.
MAKHMUR Iraq (Reuters) - Washington has acquired an unlikely ally in its battle against Islamic State militants in Iraq - a group of fighters it formally classifies as terrorists.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March, NATO has been publicly refocusing on its old Cold War foe Moscow. The threats it now believes it faces, however, are distinctly different to those of the latter half of the 20th century.
Berlin's giant Lenin statue may have been lost, say city authorities by Philip Oltermann in Berlin
Monument torn down in 1991 was buried and cannot be dug up for exhibition, according to officials
It was the star of Good Bye Lenin, Wolfgang Becker's tragicomedy set around the fall of the Berlin Wall: a statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, suspended from a helicopter, seemingly waving goodbye to the crumbling socialist republic.
But more than two decades after it was torn down, Berlin authorities have admitted the giant monument may be lost in storage.
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Missile strikes have resumed in Israel and Gaza after the latest cease-fire lapsed. CNN's John Vause reports.
BERLIN/KIEV (Reuters) - After months of ratcheting up pressure on Vladimir Putin, concern is mounting in Berlin and other European capitals that an emboldened Ukraine's military successes in the east are reducing the chances of a face-saving way out of the crisis for the Russian leader.
Hamas official: we were behind the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by Orlando Crowcroft in Jerusalem
Claim by Saleh al-Arouri, a founder of Hamas's military wing, is doubted by experts and not supported by other Hamas sources
A veteran Hamas official has said that the Islamist group was behind the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank an incident that triggered the current brutal war in Gaza.
Saleh al-Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas's military wing, made his comments at a conference in Istanbul, where he lives in exile. A tape of his comments was posted online by conference organisers.
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The light and landscape of coastal Koktebel has drawn artists for nearly a decade, but Russia’s annexation of Crimea has split the normally peaceful oasis into feuding factions.
