I think most people would probably agree that the World Cup (WC) is the best sporting event in the world. And if you’re like me, you simply can’t wait until June 2014 (assuming the world doesn’t end sometime around December 2012). But how many of y’all ever paid attention to the tournaments before the tournament? Read More

We know that people are desensitized. We hear it all the time; crimes are committed and people are unwilling to speak up or help because it’s much easier to mind one’s own business and protect self than to spend time helping another. It’s sad, but at least we can usually count on people to get Read More

- via BBC News As the Occupy Wall St. movement is spreading around the country and the world, there are people elsewhere fighting for their homes and what is dear to them. One thousand indigenous Amazonian men, women and children completed a two-month march from the Amazon town of Trinidad to La Paz, Bolivia (for Read More

Nature is beautiful. Nothing quite tickles the soul like the thought of trekking through an unspoiled wilderness. Chile has plenty of it. Patagonia in particular, famous for being one of the least inhabited places in the world, just might be the place to go when you want to get away from it all and disappear Read More

- via Yahoo News SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Texas law enforcement officials say several Mexican drug cartels are luring youngsters as young as 11 to work in their smuggling operations. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told Reuters the drug gangs have a chilling name for the young Texans lured into Read More

- via MSNBC She’s a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon. The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and three of the children have quit school for lack of money to pay required fees. “I regret to have made all those children,” says Godelive Read More

The Daily Show does it again with a report on Mexicans and their migration from the U.S. to Mexico. It’s funny because it’s true.

When the time comes for me to visit my distant relatives again, I know that I will not wear my wedding ring.  I also know that I will not bring any excessive jewelry, or designer clothes or shoes.  And I’ll definitely have to remember to keep my mouth shut in public, and let my cousins Read More

via Latin American Herald Tribune – SAN JUAN – The weekend killings of 11 people brought the number of violent deaths in Puerto Rico so far this year to 854, compared with 714 at this point in 2010, police reported Monday. Among the people killed on the weekend was a former police detective, murdered on Saturday Read More

via CNN – Actor Edward James Olmos wishes he could trace his family’s Mexican history back 100,000 years, but he’ll have to settle for 1930 for now. In what one online genealogy firm say is an extraordinary trove of data for American families of Latino descent, the complete 1930 Mexican census is being distributed publicly for Read More