Topic: Panama | VivirLatino http://vivirlatino.com/ US Latino life in blog form. en Copyright 2008 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:58:49 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Noriega to be extradited 1990bush06-noriega.jpgA U.S. judge has ruled that former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega should be extradited to France to face charges of money laundering in that country.
Judge William Turnoff's decision was a formality after a judge last week rejected arguments by Noriega's lawyers that he should be returned to Panama.
Noriega is currently serving a 15-year sentence in Miami for racketeering and drug-trafficking, and is set to be released next month, at which point he will be sent to France.

Via / BBC News

]]> http://vivirlatino.com/2007/08/28/noriega-to-be-extradited.php http://vivirlatino.com/2007/08/28/noriega-to-be-extradited.php Panama Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:58:49 -0500 And the UN Seat Goes to Panama panama.gifThe fight was originally between U.S. backed Guatemala and Venezuela, bit ultimately it was Panama who won a seat on the U.N. Security Council on the 48th ballot today.
Panama got 164 votes in the 192-member U.N. General Assembly, more than the 120 needed to win a two-year term starting Jan. 1 on the U.N.'s most powerful body. Venezuela got 11 votes, Guatemala 4 votes, and Barbados 1 vote.
the five new members of the Security Council now are Belgium, Indonesia, Italy, Panama and South Africa.

The 34 Latin American and Caribbean nations endorsed Panama as a candidate on Friday after a standoff between Guatemala and Venezuela that was the third-longest battle for a seat on the Security Council in the U.N.'s 61-year history.

Via / The New York Post
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]]> http://vivirlatino.com/2006/11/07/and-the-un-seat-goes-to-panama.php http://vivirlatino.com/2006/11/07/and-the-un-seat-goes-to-panama.php Panama Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:35:59 -0500 And the winner is...sabor! cookingdiva.jpgThe 2006 Bloggies winners have just been announced, and VL would like to extend our congratulations to the lovely and talented author of the winning blog for the "Best Latin American Blog" category -- la "Cooking Diva", herself, Chef Melissa De Leon.

From her blog:

Thank you my dear friends and readers for your unconditional support. Thank you also for helping me to open my eyes, understand and see the world the way you do it. That is very important to me.

I am happy, really happy for this award. I proudly accept it and share it with all the bloggers from Latin America and the whole world, specially the ones that work hard every day to be a window to their countries, their passions, and why not...their obsessions.

Thank you, Chef, and best of luck to Cooking Diva for future successes. Maybe a Food Network TV show? For now, she'll enjoy the glory of being rated the best Latin American blog on the web, and get a cool book about blogs to boot.

Congrats also to the runners-up in this THE ONLY Latino category in the Bloggies: Bestiaria, Motel de Moka, Ponchorama, and Guyana.

Our question to the Bloggies: when can we get a U.S. Latino category?

Via / 2006 Bloggies

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