COROICO, Bolivia -- Benito Cocarico admits that some of the coca leaves he grows to sell as tea and a traditional pick-me-up are channeled off into the broad stream of the global cocaine trade.
You are in luck, as this weekend Chile Pepper Magazine hosts ZestFest 2008 in Fort Worth, Texas.
A romantic novel about the prophet Muhammad that was canceled by Random House after critics said it could provoke Muslim anger has found an English-language publisher in Britain.
Facing sharp criticism, Chile has introduced measures to improve the sanitary conditions of its salmon industry and reduce the levels of antibiotics used to treat the fish.
Reuters - Several Russian ships and 1,000 soldiers will take part in joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea later this year, exercises likely to increase diplomatic tensions with ...
CARACAS (Reuters) - Several Russian ships and 1,000 soldiers will take part in joint naval maneuvers with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea later this year, exercises likely to increase diplomatic ...
CARACAS, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela and Russia will ...
Acaba de llamarse hoy a adherir a un proyecto para mejorar la educación chilena, compensando la mayor de nuestras inequidades –la desastrosa educación que reciben los más pobres en nuestros país.
September 03, 2008 11:25:13 GMT
President Hugo Chávez’s use of an term that roughly translates as “little Yankee” as a contemptuous synonym for “sellout” or “oligarch” has caught on in Venezuela.
Electronic Arts decided to disrupt North London's rush-hour commuter traffic this morning by staging a mock hijack of a petrol station in Finsbury Park and giving away £20,000 worth of free petrol...
A member of Great Britain's Parliament had harsh words for Electronic Arts after a marketing stunt for Mercenaries 2 gridlocked her district during the morning rush hour.
THE PRICE of crude oil is falling sharply. It closed at less than $110 a barrel yesterday -- down almost $38 since its July peak.
While searching for the leader of a drug gang in a poor section of Rio de Janiero, police officers found two caimans that they said were being used to intimidate the gang’s enemies.
Veteran "trash" filmmaker-actor José Mojica Marins‘ Encarnação do Demônio / Embodiment of Evil (literally, "The Devil’s Incarnation"), one of the out-of-competition ...
South American qualifying got back underway on Saturday with ten-man Argentina pulling off a 1-1 draw against leaders Paraguay.
oTwelve months ago Brazil were, quite literally, on top of the world. Fresh from an invigorating Copa America 2007 triumph, they looked down from the summit of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking and ahe.
TUCSON -- The directors at a parent unit of an Arizona copper mine breached their fiduciary duties to creditors by transferring stock ownership in a Peruvian mining concern, a federal judge has ruled..
Manchester United’s Paul Scholes was sent off during the Red Devils’ 2-1 defeat against Zenit St.
Colombia 0 Uruguay 1 - World Cup qualifier result, South American zone. At the Campin stadium, Bogota.
Iran’s MEHR News Agency reports on a criminal lawsuit filed in Argentina by three members of the Argentine Second Republic Movement against the Delegation of Israeli Associations in Argentina (DAIA).
VIDEO: SEE Man United star receive red card in 1-1 World Cup draw with Paraguay
Indigenous activist Savina Cuellar, having fallen out with the president, has become a figurehead for those opposed to his socialist policies, and governor in the key province of Chuquisaca.
If you are Brazilian, you pull for the Brazilian team wholeheartedly. You complain about individual players and/or the coaches when they let you down.
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