World condemns Barcelona terror attack
08/18/2017 - 04:42
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President Trump condemned the attack in a Twitter post. “Be tough & strong, we love you!,” he wrote.
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Mexicans Protest Against NAFTA talks, as Their Government Fights to Save It
08/17/2017 - 06:11
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While Mexican government negotiators fight to save the North American Free Trade Agreement during talks in Washington, thousands of members of social and trade unions on Wednesday protested in Mexico City against the deal, claiming it marginalizes local farmers and hurts the country.
Charlottesville: Leader of largest labor union in USA quits Trump's manufacturing council
08/16/2017 - 02:50
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President of the 12.5-million-member AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka announced his immediate resignation, stating that it is impossible to "sit on a council for a president who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism.
[OP-ED]: The Art of the Bluff
08/15/2017 - 15:13
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How did we get here? Why does it appear that we’re on the brink of a war in Asia, one that could involve nuclear weapons? North Korea has had nuclear-weapons capacity for at least 10 years now. Have its recent advances been so dramatic and significant to force the United States to wage a preventive war? No. The crisis we now find ourselves in has been exaggerated and mishandled by the Trump administration to a degree that is deeply worrying and dangerous.
Cuarto líder empresarial renuncia a Consejo de Trump tras polémica racista
08/15/2017 - 13:37
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El presidente de la Alianza para las Manufacturas Americanas, Scott Paul, se convirtió hoy en el cuarto líder empresarial que renuncia esta semana al Consejo de Fabricantes Estadounidenses de Donald Trump tras la tibia respuesta del mandatario a los incidentes racistas en Charlottesville (VA).
4th CEO to resign from Trump Council over Charlottesville response
08/15/2017 - 12:48
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Scott Paul, president of Alliance for American Manufacturing, resigned from the President's Manufacturing Council, joining the CEO's of Intel, Merck and Under Armour, which resigned from the group created by Donald Trump, because of the noncommittal way he responded to the racist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Charlottesville: hatred begins with the word
08/14/2017 - 08:44
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A manifestation of white supremacists in Virginia reveals that words are the most sensitive weapon of politics.
Dolores del Río: Cuando la leyenda se convierte en un Doodle de Google
08/09/2017 - 14:56
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Mucho antes de que los rostros de Ana de la Reguera, Kate del Castillo, Penélope Cruz y Salma Hayek abandonaran las portadas de la ¡HOLA! y Vanidades para embellecer los tabloides de Hollywood y las colas de las salas ACME, había existido ya una belleza española de gran talento: Dolores del Río.
Dolores del Río: When Legends become Doodles
08/03/2017 - 13:48
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Acclaimed "Golden Age" Mexican actress Dolores del Río is honored today in a floral Google Doodle as gorgeous as she was. A society heiress, a mistress to Orson Welles, a victim of McCarthyism, a spokeswoman for UNICEF, and a beauty that reportedly slept "sixteen hours a day" to keep her youthful looks, here's a look at the life of Dolores.
Trump's Tantrum Over Russia
08/03/2017 - 05:43
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US sanctions on Russia are declaration of full-fledged economic war, Russian prime minister said.
July 30th in Venezuela: many bullets and few votes
07/31/2017 - 12:53
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A voting day towards a National Constituent Assembly, called by the regime of Nicholas Maduro, resulted in 16 deaths in the hands of the militias of the regime, against an abstention that the governmental machinery insists in denying.
US approves Russia sanctions, Moscow says they are a blow to normalizing ties
07/26/2017 - 06:13
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Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov has responded to news that a package of further punitive measures for Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 US elections and its 2014 annexation of the Crimea was voted through the House of Representatives.
7.2 million Venezuelans shout "YES"
07/17/2017 - 11:42
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The popular consultation organized by the Venezuelan opposition last Sunday has resulted in more than 7 million votes in favor of a change in the country and against the Constituent Assembly promoted by Nicolás Maduro.
[OP-ED]: On North Korea, hope is not a strategy
07/11/2017 - 15:46
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In Washington, there is a conventional wisdom on North Korea that spans both parties and much of elite opinion. It goes roughly like this: North Korea is the world’s most bizarre country, run by a crackpot dictator with a strange haircut. He is unpredictable and irrational and cannot be negotiated with. Eventually this weird and cruel regime will collapse. Meanwhile, the only solution is more and more pressure. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong?
[OP-ED]: Trump’s trade trap
07/11/2017 - 15:30
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Donald Trump’s foreign policy, such as it is, rests on a massive and apparently indestructible contradiction. Trump wants the United States to remain the “essential” nation, the best embodiment of Western ideals of freedom and democracy, while at the same time deliberately alienating many of our traditional “allies,” whose support the United States desperately needs. American leadership becomes difficult, if not impossible.
Hispanic Support Grows for Same-Sex Marriage
07/07/2017 - 16:05
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Pew Research Center Survey confirms that more and more people are supporting marital union among members of the LGBT community.
Trump's travel ban goes into partial effect
06/30/2017 - 04:58
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Lawyers and activists fanned out to airports as President Trump’s travel ban went into effect. The State Department issued new guidelines on how to enforce the “close family” test on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries.
Congress could approve two laws against undocumented immigrants
06/29/2017 - 14:14
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During the vote today, Congress will evaluate two laws that aim to combat undocumented immigration from two fronts: sanctuary cities and deportation.
The Supreme Court has approved the partial implementation of Trump's travel ban
06/26/2017 - 15:25
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Today, the US Supreme Court has partially ruled in favor of President Trump's travel ban, and will allow hearings of oral arguments in the case.
La Corte Suprema ha aprobado la aplicación parcial del veto migratorio de Trump
06/26/2017 - 15:10
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El día de hoy la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos ha sentenciado parcialmente a favor del veto migratorio del presidente Trump, y permitirá la audiencia de argumentos orales en el caso.
Time for Resistance: Huge gay pride parade staged in Big Apple
06/26/2017 - 05:27
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The 48th edition of the parade included many little-known activists working in the trenches to advance the call for true social and political equality for gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals.
New York celebrates annual Gay Pride Parade
06/26/2017 - 05:19
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Participants in this year's march were families with children, old and young couples, groups of friends or individuals, who whether or not they belonged to the LGBT community, declared themselves openly proud to support the equality of rights.
LatAm facing uncertain geopolitical situation, tech change
06/22/2017 - 05:48
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The biggest challenges facing Latin America are "geopolitical uncertainty," "technological change" and the "displacement of the center of gravity toward Asia," experts at the 1st European Investment Forum in Uruguay said in Montevideo on Wednesday.
In Uruguay, experts discuss how to attract foreign investment in Latin America.
06/22/2017 - 05:37
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Financial experts at the 1st European Investment Forum in Uruguay agreed that investment trends worldwide and in Latin America depend on new factors, including worker training and interaction by governments.
Tense Times in Europe
06/20/2017 - 06:06
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An anti-Muslim attack in a London mosque on Saturday was followed by a frustrated terrorist attack on Monday in Paris, where an armed man identified as an Islamic extremist was killed after he rammed a card loaded with weapons and explosives in to a police convoy. Increasing Islamist terror and hate crime against Muslims at the same time... is this exactly what ISIS want?