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MTV will air 'South Park' with Mexican president Print E-mail
Saturday, 27 February 2010
MEXICO CITY — MTV's Mexican channel says an episode of "South Park" that depicts the country's flag and president will be aired now that the government has given its approval. MTV says the ...
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Mexican operations to add about $75M to Scotiabank's first quarter Print E-mail
Saturday, 27 February 2010
TORONTO - Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) said Friday that its Mexican operations will add about $75 million to its first-quarter earnings. The Canadian bank said Grupo Scotiabank earned 868 million pesos or C$...
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Guatemala digs up graves in search for disappeared Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
Guatemalan authorities have begun digging up mass graves at a cemetery where hundreds of people who disappeared during the Central American country's civil war are believed buried.
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Mexican authorities recover 18th century paintings stolen from church in 2008 Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have found two 18th century paintings stolen from a church two years ago. The National Anthropology Institute says the paintings — "The Adoration of ...
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Mexican gangs provoke terror with Twitter, Facebook Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
Mexico City - Organized crime gangs in Mexico are using social networks like Twitter and Facebook as weapons in psychological warfare to cause terror and show off their power in northern Mexico.
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No Calm for Lobo on Home Front Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
TEGUCIGALPA, Feb 26, 2010 (IPS) - Less than a month into his term, Honduran President Porfirio Lobo is facing street protests, complaints of human rights violations, and criticism of the truth commiss...
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Ministry’s Arrogance Meets Teachers’ Contempt Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
February, almost two thousand disgruntled teachers – all of them members of the Belize National Teachers’ Union (BNTU) – congregated outside the House of Representatives in Belmopan to demonstra...
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Running out of options… Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
by Strunk and White Have you noticed that whenever the Prime Minister cannot provide the right answers for the failures of his administration, he uses a big word to obfuscate (hide) the reality? At t...
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UDP Politics as usual Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
Last week Monday, it was reported that cardiologist Dr. John Gough and another person beat a 16 year old SJC student to a pulp. That student, allegedly pistol-whipped and battered almost beyond recogn...
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GOB – Shut-up and Deliver the Basics Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
People by nature do not like to be told what to do. In fact there are even more people who despise being coerced into acting a certain way! However there are thousands of Belizeans who obey the laws o...
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PUP Think Tanking and the Senate…..the Commonality Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
As I sat in the Senate on Tuesday February 23, 2010, representing the People’s United Party, I could not help but marvel at the level of discussion and the contributions made by most of the Senators...
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The Beginning of the End! Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
It is highly likely that Dean Barrow is too deeply engrossed in lurid fantasies of his own greatness and brilliance to get the sense. His love of self is so firmly entrenched that he cannot grasp the ...
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We Need a Competent & Qualified DPP Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
I am a former prosecutor and I wrote to bring to the attention of the Prime Minister, the Attorney General and the Belizean people a serious problem in the office of the Director of Public Prosecution...
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The Realities of Educating our Children Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
After looking at the theatrics of Minister of Education the Honorable Patrick Faber in the House of Representatives this past Friday, the obvious conclusion is that he acted like a spoilt, petulant ch...
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Laws Promoting Abortion Must Not Be Made, Advises Mexican Archbishop Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 25, 2010 (CNA).- This week, Archbishop Felipe Aguirre Franco of Acapulco advised that no attention should be paid to the capricious wishes of minority groups who seek the lega...
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Hotel Punta Islita’s Neighbor Communities Exemplify Costa Rica’s Green Leadership Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
PRWEB ) February 26, 2010 -- The latest installment of ABC Television’s Live Well HD Network’s original program, “Save My Planet” features a special segment, shot on location a...
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U.S. Consulate closes office in Mexican border city Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
(CNN) -- The U.S. Consulate in the border city of Matamoros, Mexico, temporarily closed its Consular Agency in the nearby city of Reynosa because of heightened drug-related violence in recent days.
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Ousted Honduran leader calls charges persecution Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya speaks to the media after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the U.S. State Department July 7, 2009 in Washington, D.C. (Alex Won...
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Ousted Honduran leader calls charges persecution Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said Thursday that new corruption charges brought against him by Honduras' newly elected government amount to political persecution.Ze...
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Mexican Drug Kingpin Sentenced to 25 Years in Secret Hearing Print E-mail
Friday, 26 February 2010
HOUSTON — One of the most brutal and feared drug kingpins in Mexican history was sentenced this week to 25 years in prison during a highly secretive hearing here that was closed to the public to...
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