http://www.voanews.com/archive/americas/latest/594/616.html americas http://www.voanews.com/img/voa/rssLogo_VOA.gif http://www.voanews.com/archive/americas/latest/594/616.html en-US 2012 - VOA 60 Sat, 25 May 2013 23:52:17 -0400 Pangea CMS – VOA A U.S. federal judge has ruled that an Arizona sheriff known for his tough policies has been singling out Latinos in immigration patrols and traffic stops. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow ruled Friday in Phoenix that Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio and his officers unfairly targeted Latino drivers when pulling people over for traffic stops and identity checks. A controversial Arizona law allows law enforcement officers to randomly stop people and check their immigration status. Snow ... http://www.voanews.com/content/arizona-sheriff-ruled-to-unfairly-target-latinos/1668139.html http://www.voanews.com/content/arizona-sheriff-ruled-to-unfairly-target-latinos/1668139.html Sat, 25 May 2013 01:19:30 -0400 USA VOA News Embraer SA, the world's third-largest commercial jet maker, expects just one more big regional jet order as a result of its current U.S. sales campaign, Chief Executive Officer Frederico Curado said in an interview, after the Brazilian planemaker clinched three of four major deals since December.   “After the American Airlines competition, the game is over for a while,” Curado told the Reuters Latin America Investment Summit late on Thursday, reinforcing views that Embraer has come ... http://www.voanews.com/content/planemaker-embaer-sees-american-closing-out-us-regional-jet-pack/1667820.html http://www.voanews.com/content/planemaker-embaer-sees-american-closing-out-us-regional-jet-pack/1667820.html Fri, 24 May 2013 13:43:42 -0400 Economy Reuters A bridge on the main route between Seattle, Washington and Canada's British Columbia has collapsed, causing some injuries to motorists but no deaths. http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1667549.html http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1667549.html Fri, 24 May 2013 09:53:00 -0400 USA Moore, Oklahoma, the tiny suburb of Oklahoma City, is starting the difficult task of recovery following the powerful tornado that swept through on May 20, 2013. http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1666354.html http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1666354.html Thu, 23 May 2013 09:42:00 -0400 USA In Venezuela, the laws of supply and demand are undermining the socialist revolution started by the late President Hugo Chavez.  Since Chavez’s hand-picked successor Nicolas Maduro won the Venezuelan presidential election in April - by a margin of less than 2 percent - high inflation and a shortage of staple goods are now leading many on both sides of this politically-divided country to question whether its current economic course is sustainable. Recently, toilet paper has been in short ... http://www.voanews.com/content/free-market-reforms-needed-to-fix-venezuela-socialist-economic-problems/1666484.html http://www.voanews.com/content/free-market-reforms-needed-to-fix-venezuela-socialist-economic-problems/1666484.html Wed, 22 May 2013 17:35:28 -0400 Americas Brian Padden http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1665066.html http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1665066.html Tue, 21 May 2013 06:56:00 -0400 Americas A new app launched on Monday aims to bring William Shakespeare's sonnets to the masses with the help of short films starring stage actors performing them in front of New York landmarks.The Sonnet Project is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that showcases the bard's poetry through films of up to two minutes and performances by Tony-Award winning actors Joanna Gleason and Cady Huffman, among others.   “Shakespeare gets a bad rap. A lot of people say 'I don't like ... http://www.voanews.com/content/shakespeares-sonnets-come-to-life-in-new-app/1664596.html http://www.voanews.com/content/shakespeares-sonnets-come-to-life-in-new-app/1664596.html Mon, 20 May 2013 12:43:24 -0400 Arts & Entertainment Reuters Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun whereby humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glaciers more than 11,000 years ago. Scientists are meeting in Bonn, Germany this week (5/21-24) to discuss what can be done about it. While some still debate the extent to which humans have affected the environment, scientists meeting in Bonn have little doubt. In fact, there’s a name for the informal geologic ... http://www.voanews.com/content/global-water-20may13/1664546.html http://www.voanews.com/content/global-water-20may13/1664546.html Mon, 20 May 2013 11:47:52 -0400 Africa Joe DeCapua A new study says little is being done to meet the growing demand for modern contraception methods in poor countries. The Guttmacher Institute says there’s an increasing desire for smaller families.  Guttmacher says between 2003 and 2012 the number of women wanting to avoid pregnancy – and in need of modern contraception – rose from 716 million to 867 million. The sharpest increase was seen, it says, in the 69 poorest countries “where modern method use was already very low.” Senior ... http://www.voanews.com/content/contraception-poo-countries-20may13/1664256.html http://www.voanews.com/content/contraception-poo-countries-20may13/1664256.html Mon, 20 May 2013 06:10:02 -0400 Africa Joe DeCapua A federal court in Houston, Texas, has sentenced an Indian citizen and a Brazilian national to three years in prison for smuggling illegal migrants into the United States.   Kaushik Thakkar and Fabano Amorim were also given two years of supervised release when their prison terms end.   Prosecutors say the two charged Indian citizens up to $60,000 each and conspired to smuggle them into the United States through South and Central America and the Caribbean. Many crossed into ... http://www.voanews.com/content/indian-brazilian-national-sentenced-in-us-for-human-smuggling/1663565.html http://www.voanews.com/content/indian-brazilian-national-sentenced-in-us-for-human-smuggling/1663565.html Sat, 18 May 2013 07:41:08 -0400 USA VOA News Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87.   Videla was the first president to head the military junta that "disappeared" thousands of suspected leftists from 1976 to 1983, and he spent his final years behind bars for human rights crimes including the systematic theft of babies born to ... http://www.voanews.com/content/former-argentine-dictator-jorge-rafael-videla-dirty-wars-junta-dies-at-87/1663255.html http://www.voanews.com/content/former-argentine-dictator-jorge-rafael-videla-dirty-wars-junta-dies-at-87/1663255.html Fri, 17 May 2013 14:26:26 -0400 Americas Reuters Federal police ordered some 200 Terena Indians to leave a former congressman's ranch in south-central Brazil on Thursday in the latest flashpoint of a widening conflict over land ownership in South America's farm belt. The ranch's owner, Ricardo Bacha, skipped a meeting in Brasilia with the country's vice president over the land conflicts to return to the disputed area, claiming his wife and son were being held hostage by the Indians. Brazil's indigenous policy, which ... http://www.voanews.com/content/brazil-indians-occupy-cattle-ranch-in-widening-lad-dispute/1662638.html http://www.voanews.com/content/brazil-indians-occupy-cattle-ranch-in-widening-lad-dispute/1662638.html Thu, 16 May 2013 16:24:33 -0400 Americas Reuters Peru's foreign minister has resigned, the government said on Wednesday, days after he was criticized for contributing to a diplomatic spat with Venezuela.   Rafael Roncagliolo, 68, resigned “strictly because of health reasons,” the office of President Ollanta Humala said in a statement.   Justice Minister Eda Rivas will be Peru's new foreign minister, the government said. Daniel Figallo, a deputy minister of human rights, will replace Rivas as justice minister.   “He ... http://www.voanews.com/content/venezuela-peru-health/1661844.html http://www.voanews.com/content/venezuela-peru-health/1661844.html Wed, 15 May 2013 16:35:49 -0400 Americas Reuters Canadian and British executives of three foreign businesses shut in 2011 by Cuban authorities, ostensibly for corrupt practices, have been charged after more than a year in custody and are expected to go on trial soon, sources close to the cases told Reuters.   The arrests, part of a broad government campaign to stamp out corruption, sent shockwaves through Cuba's small foreign business community where the companies were among the most visible players.   Until then, expulsions ... http://www.voanews.com/content/cuba-readies-corruption-trials-of-western-businessmen/1661102.html http://www.voanews.com/content/cuba-readies-corruption-trials-of-western-businessmen/1661102.html Tue, 14 May 2013 17:17:56 -0400 Americas Reuters Sometimes we get a clearer perspective by taking a step back. A new project by Google, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME offers the distance we need to see our planet, and our species, like we’ve never seen them before. The project, called Earth Engine, is made up of more than 28 years of satellite images taken of Earth and turned into an interactive timelapse map that shows expanding cities, shrinking rainforests, drying lakes and melting glaciers. Dubai, 1984 - 2012. ... http://www.voanews.com/content/google-earth-engine-timelapse-shows-changing-planet/1661012.html http://www.voanews.com/content/google-earth-engine-timelapse-shows-changing-planet/1661012.html Tue, 14 May 2013 15:28:38 -0400 Science & Technology Kate Woodsome Venezuela in 2012 became a net importer of gasoline as a result of escalating problems at its refineries and increasing demand for fuel in its internal market, joining a growing list of countries that struggle with fuel supplies despite ample oil reserves.   The OPEC nation exported 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) of gasoline and naphtha last year, according to state oil company PDVSA's annual report. But it imported an average of 66,300 bpd of the same fuels from the United States ... http://www.voanews.com/content/venezuela-becomes-net-gasoline-importer/1661014.html http://www.voanews.com/content/venezuela-becomes-net-gasoline-importer/1661014.html Tue, 14 May 2013 15:24:22 -0400 Americas Reuters The International Energy Agency (IEA) says the rapid growth of oil production in North America is significantly reshaping the global market.   The Paris-based IEA said Tuesday in its annual Medium-Term Oil Market Report that increased production in the northern U.S. state of North Dakota and in the oil sands of Canada "will be as transformative" to the world oil market over the next five years as increased oil demand in China has been over the last 15 years.   IEA ... http://www.voanews.com/content/north-america-rapidly-reshaping-world-oil-market/1660870.html http://www.voanews.com/content/north-america-rapidly-reshaping-world-oil-market/1660870.html Tue, 14 May 2013 13:38:00 -0400 Americas VOA News Researchers are developing new techniques to find hidden graves. They say it would help locate the remains of a lone murder victim or the mass graves of victims of war. The research has been presented at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico, co-sponsored by the American Geophysical Union. Jamie Pringle Said, “There are thousands of missing people around the world that could have been tortured and killed and buried in clandestine graves.” Pringle is a lecturer in geoscience at ... http://www.voanews.com/content/finding-graves-14may13/1660815.html http://www.voanews.com/content/finding-graves-14may13/1660815.html Tue, 14 May 2013 12:16:20 -0400 Africa Joe DeCapua Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of U.S. civil rights activist Malcolm X has died in a Mexico City hospital after an apparent beating. He was 28. Mexican authorities said Shabazz died after suffering multiple injuries following a fight Thursday in a bar near Plaza Garibaldi, home to Mariachi bands, strip clubs and bars. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City declined to give information on the death at the request of his family. In June 1997, Malcolm Shabazz, then 12, set a fire at his grandmother ... http://www.voanews.com/content/grandson-of-malcolm-x-killed-in-mexico/1659015.html http://www.voanews.com/content/grandson-of-malcolm-x-killed-in-mexico/1659015.html Fri, 10 May 2013 19:57:30 -0400 USA VOA News A Guatemalan court has found former dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. A judge in Guatemala City sentenced the 86-year-old to 80 years in prison - 50 years for genocide and 30 years for crimes against humanity. Rios Montt was convicted of ordering the deaths of 1,771 people of the Ixil Maya ethnic group during his time in office in 1982 and 1983. The retired general had denied the charges, saying he neither knew of nor ordered the massacres while in ... http://www.voanews.com/content/guatemalan-dictator-guilty-of-genocide/1659008.html http://www.voanews.com/content/guatemalan-dictator-guilty-of-genocide/1659008.html Fri, 10 May 2013 19:37:56 -0400 Americas VOA News Images of the One World Trade Center, where crane operators hoisted the final pieces of the spire atop on May 10, helping to fill the void in the New York City skyline left by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1658589.html http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1658589.html Fri, 10 May 2013 12:25:00 -0400 Americas Colombia will not enter peace talks with the country's second-biggest guerrilla group, the ELN, until it releases captives including a Canadian citizen held hostage since January, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday.   The National Liberation Army, a rebel group with about 3,000 fighters known as ELN, has expressed interest in seeking a peace accord similar to the one being discussed in Cuba with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.   The ELN seized ... http://www.voanews.com/content/colombia-demands-hostage-release-before-eln-peace-talks/1658129.html http://www.voanews.com/content/colombia-demands-hostage-release-before-eln-peace-talks/1658129.html Thu, 09 May 2013 17:53:58 -0400 Americas Reuters Lawyers working on behalf of cholera victims in Haiti have given the United Nations 60 days to compensate those sickened by the disease or face a lawsuit in a U.S. court. The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti announced the deadline Wednesday, their latest step in seeking $100,000 for the families of each of those who died from a cholera outbreak that began in October 2010. They also want $50,000 for those who became sick but survived. More than 8,000 people have died since the ... http://www.voanews.com/content/lawyers-for-haiti-cholera-victims-threaten-un-lawsuit/1657532.html http://www.voanews.com/content/lawyers-for-haiti-cholera-victims-threaten-un-lawsuit/1657532.html Thu, 09 May 2013 06:59:46 -0400 Americas VOA News Residents of La Limonera neighborhood in Venezuela's capital Caracas are still on edge and in mourning after a wave of post-election violence that killed two people in their community.   Neighbors of the low-income settlement say opposition protesters threw Molotov cocktails and fired shots amid nationwide demonstrations after President Nicolas Maduro won a narrow victory against challenger Henrique Capriles.   Nine people died around Venezuela, authorities say.   The ... http://www.voanews.com/content/recriminations-post-vote-violence-stokes-venezuela-tensions/1657381.html http://www.voanews.com/content/recriminations-post-vote-violence-stokes-venezuela-tensions/1657381.html Wed, 08 May 2013 17:52:03 -0400 Americas Reuters Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide appeared in public for the first time since returning from exile more than two years ago, testifying in court on Wednesday about the assassination more than a decade ago of a popular radio journalist and human rights activist. In a testament to his continued political sway, thousands of supporters sang pro-Aristide songs and waved his picture behind police barricades down the street from the courthouse. They had pledged to accompany him from his ... http://www.voanews.com/content/aristide-gives-evidence-in-murder-case/1657297.html http://www.voanews.com/content/aristide-gives-evidence-in-murder-case/1657297.html Wed, 08 May 2013 15:57:46 -0400 Americas Reuters The World Trade Organization is getting a new leader, after talks intended to boost trade have stalled for years.   Brazil's WTO ambassador Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo will take over from Frenchman Pascal Lamy in September. Azevedo is the first Latin American and the first citizen of one of the large emerging nations known as "BRICS" (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) to lead the WTO.   The WTO nations have been haggling over a global trade agreement ... http://www.voanews.com/content/brazilian-trade-ambassador-roberto-carvalho-de-azevendo-appointed-wto-head/1657063.html http://www.voanews.com/content/brazilian-trade-ambassador-roberto-carvalho-de-azevendo-appointed-wto-head/1657063.html Wed, 08 May 2013 12:40:05 -0400 Economy VOA News A gas tanker truck explosion has killed at least 19 people in a Mexico City suburb. The pre-dawn blast on a highway in Ecatepec injured 36 people, and damaged 15 automobiles and 27 homes. Officials said eight children were among the dead and warned the death toll could rise. The truck apparently overturned, and authorities are investigating the cause of the accident. The driver reportedly survived the accident and was in a hospital receiving medical treatment and being questioned. http://www.voanews.com/content/gas-tanker-truck-explosion-kills-at-least-nineteen-in-mexico/1656502.html http://www.voanews.com/content/gas-tanker-truck-explosion-kills-at-least-nineteen-in-mexico/1656502.html Tue, 07 May 2013 15:43:48 -0400 Americas VOA News A large slab of granite has been found deep in the Atlantic Ocean, Japanese researchers said on Tuesday, suggesting a continent may have once existed off the coast of Brazil. View Larger Map A team led by the Japan Agency For Marine-Earth Science And Technology (JAMSTEC) found the 10-meter high by 10-meter wide rock 'cliff' more than 900 meters (2,950 feet) under the ocean while conducting a survey with its deep-sea submersible in the Rio Grande Rise, part of the southwest Atlantic ... http://www.voanews.com/content/japanese-researchers-find-possible-lost-continent-in-atlantic-ocean/1656308.html http://www.voanews.com/content/japanese-researchers-find-possible-lost-continent-in-atlantic-ocean/1656308.html Tue, 07 May 2013 12:34:29 -0400 Asia Reuters Pope Francis will visit the poor in a favela and meet young prisoners when he travels to Brazil on his first international trip as pontiff in July, the Vatican said on Tuesday.   Francis, who has said he wants to make concern for the poor a hallmark of his papacy, will visit the Manguinhos slum in Rio de Janeiro on the fourth day of his July 22-29 trip to the world's largest Catholic country.   Manguinhos is one of Rio's most visible favelas, wedged between a busy highway ... http://www.voanews.com/content/pope-francis-first-trip-brazil-slums-poverty/1656184.html http://www.voanews.com/content/pope-francis-first-trip-brazil-slums-poverty/1656184.html Tue, 07 May 2013 10:28:54 -0400 Americas Reuters The humanitarian organization Save the Children has released its annual State of the World’s Mothers report. It says despite much progress being made in reducing maternal and child deaths, every year, three million babies die within the first month of life. Many just live a few hours. Save the Children President and CEO Carolyn Miles said there’s a widespread and mistaken belief that little can be done to save newborn lives in developing countries. As a result, many babies die. “This ... http://www.voanews.com/content/annual-mothers-report-7may13/1655999.html http://www.voanews.com/content/annual-mothers-report-7may13/1655999.html Tue, 07 May 2013 06:37:47 -0400 Health Joe DeCapua http://www.voanews.com/content/annual-mothers-report-7may13/1655999.html#relatedInfoContainer Brazil plans to hire 6,000 Cuban doctors to serve in remote parts of the country where medical services are deficient or nonexistent, despite controversy over the quality of their training. Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said on Monday negotiations were under way involving the Washington-based Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) to allow the Cuban doctors to practice in Brazil. Brazilian medical associations have opposed Cuban-trained doctors practicing in their country, ... http://www.voanews.com/content/brazil-to-deploy-thousands-of-cuban-doctors-to-remote-areas/1655797.html http://www.voanews.com/content/brazil-to-deploy-thousands-of-cuban-doctors-to-remote-areas/1655797.html Mon, 06 May 2013 17:36:51 -0400 Americas Reuters Canada lost an appeal at the World Trade Organization on Monday in a ruling on incentives offered to local companies, a case that has already led to legal challenges over suspicions of similar perks elsewhere. Japan and the European Union brought the case over a scheme intended to promote renewable energy in the province of Ontario. It offered above-market prices for electricity supplied by renewable energy companies but only offered the premium to firms who bought most of their equipment ... http://www.voanews.com/content/canada-loses-wto-appeal-in-renewable-energy-case/1655609.html http://www.voanews.com/content/canada-loses-wto-appeal-in-renewable-energy-case/1655609.html Mon, 06 May 2013 14:16:16 -0400 Economy Reuters U.S. President Barack Obama says the economic systems of the Americas must integrate if they want to compete in a 21st century world. Obama said at a regional economic forum in Costa Rica Saturday that the countries of the Western Hemisphere need the best educational and regulatory systems.  He said if the nations do not coordinate their activities, they will fall behind other regions in the world. In his weekly radio address, Obama said Latin America represents an "incredible ... http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-expand-trade-in-latin-america/1654530.html http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-expand-trade-in-latin-america/1654530.html Sat, 04 May 2013 07:51:08 -0400 USA VOA News http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-expand-trade-in-latin-america/1654530.html#relatedInfoContainer President Barack Obama said Friday he does not foresee sending U.S. ground troops into Syria. The president spoke at a joint news conference with Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla in San Jose, Costa Rica. When asked what he might do if more evidence of Syrian government chemical weapons use is produced, Obama said he has not ruled anything out, but sending ground troops is not likely. “I do not foresee a scenario in which boots on the ground in Syria, American boots on the ground in ... http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-no-scenario-for-us-troops-in-syria/1654435.html http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-no-scenario-for-us-troops-in-syria/1654435.html Fri, 03 May 2013 20:18:09 -0400 USA Kent Klein http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-no-scenario-for-us-troops-in-syria/1654435.html#relatedInfoContainer U.S. President Barack Obama is en route to Costa Rica, where he plans to meet with President Laura Chinchilla. The two leaders will discuss bilateral issues ahead of Saturday's Central American Forum on Sustainable Economic Development. During his visit to Mexico earlier Friday, Obama said a "new Mexico is emerging" with a robust civil society and political parties that compete vigorously but also transfer power peacefully. Speaking to a group of mostly students at ... http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-vows-immigration-reform-during-mexican-visit/1653898.html http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-vows-immigration-reform-during-mexican-visit/1653898.html Fri, 03 May 2013 10:59:30 -0400 USA VOA News President Obama held talks in Mexico City with new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. He next plans to meet with Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla ahead of the Central American Forum on Sustainable Economic Development. http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1653814.html http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1653814.html Fri, 03 May 2013 09:37:00 -0400 Americas U.S. President Barack Obama is set to deliver a speech directed mainly at students Friday in Mexico City, noting the role they can play in their nation's future. Obama will speak at Mexico's National Anthropology Museum, where is expected to focus on U.S. immigration policy. Later, he will meet privately with a group of Mexican businessmen. Also Friday, he will travel to Costa Rica where he plans to meet with Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla to discuss bilateral issues ahead ... http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-to-conclude-mexican-visit-travel-to-costa-rica/1653688.html http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-to-conclude-mexican-visit-travel-to-costa-rica/1653688.html Fri, 03 May 2013 04:01:26 -0400 USA VOA News U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto both say they will work together to further integrate their countries’ economies, and to fight cross-border crime. The two leaders met Thursday in Mexico City. After their meeting, President Obama said he and Pena Nieto are working to further bolster an economic relationship that already produces a half-trillion dollars in trade each year. “We are your largest customer, buying the vast majority of Mexican exports.  ... http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-us-mexican-border-most-secure-in-years/1653594.html http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-us-mexican-border-most-secure-in-years/1653594.html Thu, 02 May 2013 19:01:21 -0400 Americas Kent Klein http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-us-mexican-border-most-secure-in-years/1653594.html#relatedInfoContainer U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Mexico and Costa Rica this week, starting with a flight Thursday to Mexico City, where he will meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto , who took office in December of last year. The two leaders may put most emphasis on trade and bilateral cooperation, but they also are likely to review efforts to defeat drug smuggling organizations based in Mexico. The presidential visit to Mexico provides leaders from both countries an opportunity to emphasize their ... http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-mexico-drugs/1652914.html http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-mexico-drugs/1652914.html Wed, 01 May 2013 21:34:51 -0400 USA Greg Flakus President Barack Obama leaves Thursday for a two-day visit to Mexico and Costa Rica. The president’s meetings with the leaders of Mexico and  Central America will focus on strengthening economic ties. President Obama says economic development will be the main topic when he meets with Enrique Pena Nieto for the first time since the Mexican president took office. “We have spent so much time on security issues between the United States and Mexico that sometimes I think we forget this is a ... http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-mexico-latin-america-summit-economy/1652911.html http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-mexico-latin-america-summit-economy/1652911.html Wed, 01 May 2013 21:20:52 -0400 USA Kent Klein http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-mexico-latin-america-summit-economy/1652911.html#relatedInfoContainer Bolivian President Evo Morales says he is expelling the U.S. Agency for International Development, accusing it of interfering in his country's internal affairs. Morales said Wednesday during a May Day speech in La Paz that the United States no longer will "manipulate" the Bolivian economy and its politics. In 2008, he threw out the U.S. ambassador and officials from the Drug Enforcement Agency. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said the U.S. deeply regrets ... http://www.voanews.com/content/bolivia-expels-usaid/1652808.html http://www.voanews.com/content/bolivia-expels-usaid/1652808.html Wed, 01 May 2013 16:46:02 -0400 Americas VOA News Hundreds of thousands of Cubans filed through Havana's Revolution Square on Wednesday in a May Day parade that paid tribute to Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan leader who was the Caribbean island's top ally and benefactor before his death from cancer in March. A sea of workers, many wearing red shirts like those favored by Chavez and carrying signs with his image, paraded past a giant statue of 19th century Cuban independence hero Jose Marti in the vast square where Cuba holds its biggest ... http://www.voanews.com/content/on-may-day-cuba-remembers-best-friend-chavez/1652728.html http://www.voanews.com/content/on-may-day-cuba-remembers-best-friend-chavez/1652728.html Wed, 01 May 2013 15:32:27 -0400 Americas Reuters Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles says his campaign will formally contest the official results of the presidential elections in a Supreme Court filing. Capriles told a May Day rally the challenge would be presented to the top court on Thursday. President Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of the April 14 vote to replace the late Hugo Chavez as Venezuela's leader. Opposition and government supporters flooded Venezuelan streets in rival May Day marches Wednesday as a ... http://www.voanews.com/content/venezuela-opposition-to-contest-election-reuslts-in-court/1652655.html http://www.voanews.com/content/venezuela-opposition-to-contest-election-reuslts-in-court/1652655.html Wed, 01 May 2013 14:20:30 -0400 Americas VOA News U.S. President Barack Obama leaves Thursday for Mexico and Costa Rica, on a trip to strengthen trade ties and discuss U.S. immigration reform, security threats and drug wars. On the three-day trip, Obama will meet with the new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Central American leaders at a summit in Costa Rica. Obama said Tuesday his trip to Mexico will focus on economics to see how the two countries can deepen their economic ties. "A lot of the focus is going to be on ... http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-to-discuss-trade-and-security-in-mexico-costa-rica/1652540.html http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-to-discuss-trade-and-security-in-mexico-costa-rica/1652540.html Wed, 01 May 2013 12:28:55 -0400 USA VOA News Syrian state media say an enormous blast April 30 in the Marjeh district of Damascus killed at least 13 people and wounded 70 others. http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1651698.html http://www.voanews.com/media/photogallery/1651698.html Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:58:00 -0400 Middle East A recent editorial in the Journal for Public Health calls on the media to do a better job of reporting on sexual violence against women. It says, too often, the media focus on sensational crimes and fail to reveal the full scope of the problem. Last December, a young woman in India was fatally gang raped. In February, a teenage girl in South Africa was gang raped and mutilated. She also died of her injuries. In March, in India, a Swiss tourist was ganged raped in front of her husband and in ... http://www.voanews.com/content/rape-media-30apr13/1651676.html http://www.voanews.com/content/rape-media-30apr13/1651676.html Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:23:16 -0400 Africa Joe DeCapua A Venezuelan court charged retired general Antonio Rivero on Monday with inciting post-election violence in the latest political flash point in the bitterly divided nation.   Opposition leaders say Rivero, a member of the Popular Will movement that is a driving force of Venezuela's opposition coalition, became new President Nicolas Maduro's first political prisoner when he was arrested over the weekend.   Authorities say he was one of those behind a wave of violence, on the ... http://www.voanews.com/content/venezuela-opposition-leader-charged-inciting-violence/1651268.html http://www.voanews.com/content/venezuela-opposition-leader-charged-inciting-violence/1651268.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:35:36 -0400 Americas Reuters The number of people displaced within their own countries by armed conflict, violence and human rights violations totaled nearly 30-million in 2012. Many of the newly displaced were in Syria and the eastern Congo. Clare Spurrell of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center said there were record numbers of IDPs, or internally displaced people, last year. “This last year we saw 28.8 million people who are now internally displaced as a consequence of conflict. This is an increase of ... http://www.voanews.com/content/internally-displaced-29apr13/1650931.html http://www.voanews.com/content/internally-displaced-29apr13/1650931.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:10:46 -0400 Africa Joe DeCapua The Arabic word “muslima” means a woman who believes in God. The online Muslima exhibition, by the International Museum of Women, highlights the individuality of Muslim women and the rich diversity of their thoughts and contributions. The exhibit's curator says one of the goals is to dispel negative stereotypes. “When we think of Muslim women, we think that they are as weak, passive women who also happen to be veiled,” said Samina Ali, an Indian-born Muslim novelist, artist and ... http://www.voanews.com/content/exhibit-challenges-stereotypes-of-muslim-women/1650929.html http://www.voanews.com/content/exhibit-challenges-stereotypes-of-muslim-women/1650929.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:34:39 -0400 Arts & Entertainment Faiza Elmasry http://www.voanews.com/content/exhibit-challenges-stereotypes-of-muslim-women/1650929.html#relatedInfoContainer Latin America's growing prosperity is fueling a cancer epidemic that threatens to overwhelm the region unless governments take urgent preventive action, a study published on Friday warned. A multinational team of researchers found the current state of cancer care and prevention in Latin America is incompatible with the socioeconomic changes taking place in the region, where an increasingly urban populace faces mounting lifestyle-related cancer risks. Writing in The Lancet Oncology ... http://www.voanews.com/content/study-says-latin-america-threatened-by-mounting-cancer-edidemic/1649959.html http://www.voanews.com/content/study-says-latin-america-threatened-by-mounting-cancer-edidemic/1649959.html Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:24:31 -0400 Health Reuters