Posts Tagged ‘Latin America’
Obama’s Latin American Problem
10:04 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Latin America|TV|US Presidential Race 2008 · 5 Comments
4 Aug 2008Obama may not have a Latino problem but he does have a Latin American problem. I may not appreciate the cut and paste style of the ad and let’s be real, John McCain isn’t gonna take care of business when it comes to allowing Latin America to take care of it’s own business, but McCain does have a point when it come to Obama’s positions on Latin America. It’s one of the main concerns I have when it comes to Obama.
Americans Don’t Care about Latin America
4:40 pm By Maegan La Mala · Latin America|society · 10 Comments
30 Jan 2008
While Americans might be preoccupied with saving sea lions in the Galapagos, it seems that as a country we aren’t very concerned about our neighbors to the South. A new Zogby poll shows that in spite of the fact that there are now more Latinos than ever living in the U.S., nobody seems to care about Latin America: only 7% of the surveyed public thought Latin America was the most important region for the United States. Spain’s El Pais reports that according to this survey, the average citizen “sees Latin America negatively and through the lens of immigration”.
Which region was the most important? The Middle East, with 43% of respondents, followed by Southeast Asia with 20% and Europe with 12%.
We don’t seem to care about Canada either. Fritz Wenzel of Zogby International sums it up: “Because of the closeness, perhaps the results are surprising. It’s as if Americans were looking to the East and to the West but not North or South.”
Nope, we only seem to care when there are financial interests involved.
Interestingly, poll results show that most Americans think Venezuela has the most pull in the region. Don’t tell Hugo Chavez, it might go to his head!
Via / El Pais
Senator: Get your mind off Chavez
2:35 pm By Maegan La Mala · Latin America|Politics|society · 1 Comment
5 Dec 2007
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D, New Jersey) is tired of the government’s obsession with Hugo Chavez, and says that we need to get our minds off Hugo and back on programs in Latin America:
“We need to worry less about what Chavez does and more about what we do,” said the Hispanic senator to a group of journalists, reflecting on a tour of Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay and it’s triple border with Brazil and Argentina.“We give Chavez too much importance,” he reiterated, upon being askeg about the president George W. Bush’s comments a few hours earlier which pressured Congress to approve a free trade agreement with Colombia to counter the influence of Chavez in the region, according to AFP.
Menendez says that best way to neutralize Chavez’s influence and “marginalize” him is to build better relationships with the rest of Latin America, and satisfy “mutual interests”. The Senator charges that the fact that George W. Bush has virtually ignored the region is the reason why Chavez has been able to exert so much influence in Latin America: “Others have tried to fill that void and not necessarily with good intentions.”
Via / El Universal (Venezuela)
What Is the U.S. Doing in Paraguay?
8:51 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Paraguay|Politics · Comments Off
31 Aug 2007
While the former dictator of Paraguay may have gone to that military academy in the sky, something fishy is going on in the South American nation that lends just a little bit of legitimacy to Hugo Chavez‘s claims that the U.S. is digging its imperialist claws into Latin America.
In May of 2005, the Paraguayan Senate voted to allow U.S. troops to operate in Paraguay with total immunity. Washington had threatened to cut off millions in aid to the country if Paraguay did not grant the U.S. troops entry. In July of 2005 hundreds of U.S. soldiers arrived in the country, and Washington’s funding for counterterrorism efforts in Paraguay doubled. The U.S. troops conducted various operations and joint training exercises with Paraguayan forces, including so-called Medical Readiness Training Exercises (MEDRETEs). Orlando Castillo, a military policy expert at the human rights rights organization Servicio, Paz y Justicia in Asunción, Paraguay, says the MEDRETEs were “observation” operations aimed at developing “a type of map that identifies not just the natural resources in the area, but also the social organizations and leaders of different communities.”
3 Out Of The New Seven World Wonders Are Latino
8:59 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · history|Latin America · Comments Off
12 Jul 2007Seven new Wonders of the World have been named. Three are in Latin America.
Christ Redeemer Statue, Brazil: The outstretched arms of the 125-foot statue of the Christ the Redeemer overlooks Rio de Janeiro from atop 2,343-foot Mount Corcovado
Machu Picchu, Peru: Built by the Incan Empire in the 15th century, Machu Picchu’s walls, palaces, temples and dwellings are perched in the clouds at 8,000 feet above sea level in the Andes
Pyramid at Chichen Itza, Mexico: This pyramid was part of a sacred site in an important Mayan center on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Built according to the solar calendar, shadows at the fall and spring equinoxes are said to look like a snake crawling down the steps, similar to the carved serpent at the top.
Latin American countries experiencing job growth
2:45 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Labor|Latin America|Peru · Comments Off
25 Jun 2007
Latin American countries traditionally plagued by unemployment and weak economies are beginning to experience a notable level of job growth, according to Forbes.com’s list of “The World’s Hottest Job Markets”, based on Manpower’s quarterly Global Employment Outlook. The South American countries ranked in the Top 5 for job growth: Peru and Argentina:
Manpower’s quarterly Global Employment Outlook, which surveyed over 50,000 employers across 27 countries, ranked Peru No. 2 and Argentina No. 4 in expected job growth for the July-September quarter. The firm scored each country by subtracting the percentage of companies that said they plan to cut back on workers from the percentage that said they plan to add them. A country where 75% of employers plan to add to their workforces and 25% plan to cut them, for example, scores +50%. Peru rated +48%, while Argentina weighed in at +38%.
Experts say that the rub is in whether or not this growth is sustainable. Number one on the list is Singapore, while the U.S. barely made the ranking, coming in at number 10.
Via / Forbes.com
Latin American women almost on par with men for salary
2:01 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Labor|Latin America|Women · Comments Off
14 May 2007
A new study shows some encouraging data about the state of workplace equality — at least as it relates to remuneration — for women in Latin America. According to the Organización Internacional del Trabajo’s (OIT, International Work Organization) report “Equality in the Workplace”, in the period of 1994-2004 salaries for women in Latin America have gone up considerably, reaching almost the same level of pay for their male counterparts in some cases, and falling just below in others:
In Paraguay, for example, women went from earning 36% less than men in 1994 to 5% less in 2004.The same thing happened in Brazil in the same decade (from 39% to 13%), and Chile (from 30% to 17%), in Mexico (from 32% to 22%) and in Ecuador (from 24% to 13%).
The best examples of positive change for salary equality in Latin America were Venezuela and Colombia, where women workers earn only 1% less than their male counterparts. The worst? Argentina, where women earn an average of 38% less than men, a statistic that didn’t change from 1994-2004.
Via / El Universal
Cancer rates soar in Latin America
7:18 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health|Latin America · Comments Off
23 Apr 2007
The number of cancer cases in Latin America is growing, according to information released at a recent conference in Buenos Aires that sought to examine the rise of the disease in the region. The number of current cases is shocking, and the reports from the conference reveal a grim prediction for the future. Mexico’s Milenio reports:
América Latina has a virtual epidemia of advanced cancer due to the scarce programs of control and prevention of the disease in the region and the lack of medical personnel, the [Cancer] specialists [at the conference] said on Monday.It is estimated that in Latin America there are 800,000 new cases of cancer each year, of which 450,000 end with the death of the patient, a number which could double by the year 2020 if the current state of deficiency in the prevention of and attention to the disease continues.
The Buenos Aires event was funded by monies from a Nobel prize by the Programme for Action Cancer Therapy (PACT), part of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is organizing other events in the region to bring medical specialists together in an effort to end the cycle of misinformation. PACT has also designated 40 million dollars to the creation of cancer prevention centers, the purchase of equipment and training of medical personnel in Latin America.
Via / Milenio
U.S. peeved over Chavez’s anti-Bush rally
1:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina|Controversia|Politics|Venezuela · 1 Comment
23 Mar 2007
The third man in line at the U.S. State Department, Nicholas Burns, criticized Argentina yesterday for allowing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to carry on with an anti-Bush rally in Buenos Aires while Dubya was on tour in neighboring Uruguay:
“I don’t think it was correct,” said Burns during a press conference in Washington about Bush’s recent trip to Latin America, according to AFP.“I regret that this protest took place there (in Buenos Aires) the same day that our president was in Montevideo.”
Bush Promises $$$ to Latin America (but at what price)
11:59 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Latin America|Politics · Comments Off
6 Mar 2007
Some media outlets are reporting President Bush’s upcoming trip to Latin America and the millions of dollars he’s promising for the region as a way for him to lose guilt for ignoring the area.
He said the United States will spend tens of millions of dollars to improve education, housing and health care across the region.
“The United States of America is committed to helping people rise out of poverty,” the president said.
Many children in Latin America do not finish grade school and many mothers never see a doctor, Bush said in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Building to about 400 invited guests, most of them members of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
“In an age of growing prosperity and abundance, this is a scandal and it is a challenge,” Bush said.
The speech came three days before the president leaves on a weeklong trip to Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.
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