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Throughout present-day Latin America, no two leaders are bestowed with so much fervor, equal parts adoration and animosity, than Fidel Castro in Cuba and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. The socialist, anti-imperialism policies they exhort make them the scourge of the Western world; their totalitarian attempts to prolong their regimes fuel opposition within their own countries. Read More
When you saw his pasty pale-skinned face, your eyes became glued to TV. You debated his innocence as if he was O.J. Simpson. Blowhards, from Nancy Grace to me to Dr. Phil kept track of his every movement. He is Joran van der Sloot, and ever since his high profile role in the disappearance of Natalee Read More
A human chain of 12,000 people scaling a volcano is certainly one way to create awareness. According to the BBC, thousands of people climbed Guatemala’s Volcán de Agua on Jan. 21 in protest of domestic violence, making what they hope is the world’s largest human chain. Prensa Libre notes that the volcano towers more than Read More
The New York Times recently reported on a small rural townwhere longtime residents complain about “young Mexican men working construction and driving down wages, the children of laborers flooding crowded schools…and strip clubs springing up on roads that used to be dark and quiet.” Is the town in Wisconsin, Kansas, Alabama, or even (shudder) Arizona? Read More
Three weeks ago, we celebrated the start of a new year. You may have made some resolutions or just have some new goals for 2012. If you haven’t yet been able to put these in motion yet, you have another chance to get started and begin the year anew. Today marks the first day of Read More
via Merco Press The campaign, inspired in Spain and Japan, points out that using a tie needs more cooling and air conditioning than with out a tie. If air conditioner temperatures are increased one to three degrees, the savings in power can reach 3% which means the equivalent of 10 million dollars in considerable savings Read More
It’s great to want to change the world and make it a better place, but what are we prepared to change in our lives that would actually lead to that result? In an independently organized TED event, Nate Garvis (founder of Naked Civics) touches on how we could change the use of the tools that Read More
I’ve been traveling Colombia for the last three weeks now, going through Bogotá, Cartagena, Santa Marta and Medellin. In every town, there’s a center or a road named after Simon Bolivar. He was ‘The Liberator.’ He led the region to victory against the Spanish. This man created Latin America. The only way you achieve that Read More
As most of us celebrated the new year, I’m sure some looked at the changing of calendars to 2012 as an ominous event. I’m talking, of course, about the preposterous belief that the world will come to its cataclysmic end this year per some Mayan prophecy, a fiction that inextricably lives on in the popular Read More