Puma to sell gasoline-ethanol mix in Puerto Rico

San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto ...

Cooperation in Education Between Cuba and Angola Deepened

Prensa Latina - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Luanda, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The perspectives to widen and diversify cooperation between Angola and Cuba in education are promising, especially in the technical-professional teaching level, said an Angolan official here Tuesday. Narciso Damasio dos Santos Benedito, Secretary of State for the Angolan Technical-Professional Formation and Teaching, received Cuban Ministers Council vice president ...

Venezuela Black and Blue

The New Yorker - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The left eye of Julio Borges, a deputy in the Venezuelan National Assembly from the opposition party, Primero Justicia, is the best symbol of the way things are going in Venezuelan politics. When I interviewed him two weeks ago, he had a deep purple stripe under his eye, as if he were an athlete wearing a streak of eye black to avoid being dazzled by the sun. But his stripe was the result of a ...

Solvista hits gold-copper whopper in Colombia

Mine Web - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

's view of its Caramanta project in Colombia, few would argue it was a featherweight copper-gold intercept. Solvista's shareprice took off Tuesday - up 40 percent at presstime - after it reported 457 metres @ 1.01 g/t gold and 0.21 percent copper. Solvista called this its longest and most continuously mineralized intercept yet drilled at Caramanta, in Colombia's Antioquia ...

Organic Cooperative Proves that Agriculture Can Prosper in Cuba

IPS - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Continuous upgrading and a "vocation" for farming are two keys to the success of a cooperative that could serve as a model for boosting agriculture in ...

Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet

IPS - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

- As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more ...

EVERTEC Nominated as a Finalist for 2013 Informatica Corporation Innovation Awards

Fresh News - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- EVERTEC Group LLC, the leader in electronic transaction processing in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced today that it was named as a finalist for the 2013 Innovation Awards bestowed by Informatica Corporation. Informatica is the number one independent provider of data integration software in the world, and conducts an annual competition ...

Dominican Republic’s Cardinal slams ruling for sex education

Dominican Today - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Santo Domingo.- A visibly enraged Catholic cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez on Tuesday issued a scathing to response to National District judge Eunice Minaya's ruling for the family planning agency's (Pro Familia) sex education campaign, which he sarcastically hailed. "I first of all congratulate that most illustrious and wisest of judges for the ruling, secondly, I also ...

Agency busts ring sent heroin mules to Puerto Rico

Dominican Today - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Santo Domingo.- The National Control Drugs Agency (DNCD) on Tuesday said it busted a network of heroin dealers based in Sabana de la Mar (northeast), which sent "mules" to Puerto Rico through several airports and the Ferry. The ring was detected after the arrest of Juan de Dios Lopez while boarding the ferry to Puerto Rico, with 96 heroine capsules, while the handicapped Ney Sanchez ...

AES supplies energy at Central Americas and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices

Dominican Today - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...

Iniesta Facing Brazil at the Maracana would be magical

albawaba - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Brazil at the Maracana, which will host the finals of the 2013 Confederations Cup and 2014 World Cup.The Selecao will get the Confederations Cup underway on June 15 with a Group A match against Japan, while the European champions, who have been drawn in Group B, will face Uruguay the following day."For any player to play in Brazil in the Maracana is unique, magical," the 29-year-old ...

Unspent billions of Chilean defense fund remain a mystery

General Sources - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

More than $4 billion of cash reserved for Chilean military procurement remains unspent because of mysterious workings of funding arrangements between the Latin American country's state mining sector, the government and the armed forces. Chilean law entitles the military to 10 percent of the proceeds of copper exports. Repeated government efforts to get rid of the law, entrenched in the ...

Carlos Slim to sell stake in Philip Morris Mexico

Times of India - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Grupo Carso company is selling its stake in Philip Morris's Mexico unit to the US tobacco giant for $700 million, the firms said Tuesday. Grupo Carso holds a 20 percent stake in Philip Morris Mexico (PMM) and the companies expect to complete the transaction by September 30, ending a three-decade partnership between Slim and the maker of Marlboro cigarettes. Philip Morris holds almost ...

Same-sex couples inch toward sharing benefits in Mexico City

Middle East Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Same-sex couples are a step closer to being able to share social security benefits after one government agency changed its policy in May 2013. Same-sex marriage has been legal for three years in Mexico City. But delays in Congress to revise the social security laws continue to leave spouses without access to each other's ...

EMERGING MARKETS-Mexico stocks near 8-month low as Brazil leaps

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

MEXICO CITY, May 21 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped on Tuesday to a nearly eight-month low, while Brazilian stocks rose for the third successive session to hit a key resistance level. Mexican stocks have slumped 12 percent from a record high hit in January, hurt recently after weak first-quarter growth dampened the economic outlook for 2013. Brazil, meanwhile, has rebounded more than 6 ...

Iraqi PM Orders Security Shakeup as Violence Surges

VOA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered a shakeup of senior government security officers, as a weeks-long wave of violence grips the country and fears of all-out sectarian war spread. The shakeup was confirmed on the prime minister's website, but details were not immediately clear. The move comes as authorities reported at least 21 deaths Tuesday in attacks ...

Statement by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Meeting with Mexicoaposs Secretary of Agriculture

USDA - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

MEXICO CITY, May 17, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement following his meeting with Mexico's new Secretary of Agriculture, Enrique Martnez y Martnez: "I am pleased by the productive exchange with Secretary Martnez where we discussed and recognized the strong bilateral agricultural trade between our two countries. Mexico is an important ...

Venezuela TV host goes off air after audio scandal

San Diego Union-Tribune - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Opposition lawmaker Ismael Garcia, center, speaks during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2013. Venezuela's opposition has released an audio recording that it says contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. They have accused Cuban leaders of wielding influence behind the scenes in guiding ...

Nicaraguan Businessmen for Strengthening Trade with Cuba

Prensa Latina - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Managua, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Nicaraguan businessmen are discussing with optimism possibilities of strengthening trade with Cuba, following an agreement between Nicaraguan Chamber of Industries (Cadin), and the Chamber of Trade of that Caribbean country, said a business expert today. According to Doctor Oscar Aleman, who took part in different private ...

Haiti is The Great Business of NGOs Cuban Experts Said

Prensa Latina - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Haiti is a business for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), whose interference is greater than their help, Cuban specialists in Caribbean themes denounced today. Gloria Leon, a professor at the University of Havana, revealed the background of interference of many organizations that feed on Haitian poverty and exacerbate it in their own interests. In the panel ...

Colombia Two Spanish Tourists Kidnapped

Argentina Independent - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A beach in La Guajira in northern Colombia. Photo from Flickr In reports that were released today, it has been revealed that two Spanish tourists were kidnapped in northern Colombia on Friday. Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the announcement today of the kidnapping of ngel Snchez Fernndez, 49, and Concepcin Marlaska Sedano, 43, in the northeast department of La Guajira. Spanish ...

New Bus Terminal Planned for Buenos Aires by 2015

Argentina Independent - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The Six on route to Retiro. (Photo: Beatrice Murch) The city government has today announced plans to open a new bus terminal in Villa Soldati in 2015, creating 1,200 new jobs in Buenos Aires. The terminal, which is expected to open in September 2015, is being developed in a bid to reduce traffic levels at the city’s Retiro terminal; new bus routes are expected to absorb up to 40% of the ...