Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday issued a document to combat money laundering in financial institutions in the Vatican, three months after the Vatican Bank was investigated. Benedict’s ‘Moto Proprio’ document, concerns ‘the prevention and opposition to illegal financial activity’, according to a Holy See press release. The changes come in the wake of an investigation [...]
The brazilian football player Ronaldo has been target shooting under the supervision of an officer of the Group of Armed Robbery and Burglary Suppression (Claw) of the Sao Paulo Police. The news about Ronaldo becoming an expert shooter with guns were published by Ancelmo Gois, columnist of the newspaper O Globo on December 26. In [...]
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Definitely, 2011 will be THE year for female politicians in Latin America. Brazil will welcome its first female president in 2011, Dilma Rousseff. Cristina Fernandez has recuperated much of her popularity in Argentina, since her husband Nestor Kirchner, passed away. Laura Chinchilla will enter her second year as president of Costa Rica. Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s [...]
A study coordinated by the brazilian Ministry of National Integration highlights the vulnerability of Brazil’s borders against smuggling and trafficking in arms and drugs. The 140-page report was prepared by the Federal Working Group for Border Integration and delivered to former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva early this month of december 2010. The document [...]
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Starting from 2011, the newly International Anti-Corruption Academy IACA, an organization initiated by the government of Austria, will train specialists who work directly in the fight against corruption. Brazil signed in Vienna the agreement creating the international academy and therefore became a founding member of the organization. According to the brazilian interim chief minister of [...]
The argentinian justice issued prison sentences against 10 Mexicans accused of drug trafficking in Argentina. This new development has changed the map of that illegal activity in this South American nation. Two years ago, Interpol found here a clandestine drug laboratory operated by Mexicans. The arrest of the mexican gang thwarted attempts of the drug [...]
The former President of Venezuela, Carlos Andrés Pérez died Saturday in Miami. He was 88 years old During his political life, Mr. Perez tried to make Venezuela a leader of the developing world during a 1970s oil boom only to have his legacy upended in a tumultuous 1989 return to the presidency marked by civil [...]
Mexico is now one of the leading producers and exporters of pirated goods in Latin America and part of Eastern Europe, said to the cuban castrist news agency Prensa Latina, the researcher Horacio Jimenez from the Polytechnic Institute of Monterrey. According to the specialist, people acquire those goods of doubtful origin in informal businesses or [...]
United States Congress have blocked President Barack Obama’s initiative to close the controversial prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On Wednesday , U.S. Congress approved a Pentagon budget that forbids spending money on the move from Guantanamo. After months of discussions, both the House and Senate approved a 725.9-billion-dollar defense spending plan for the fiscal year [...]
Last Friday, Ecuador acknowledged Palestine as a free and independent state with borders prior to the Israeli occupation of 1967. The official recognition, signed by President Rafael Correa, is to “vindicate the valid and legitimate yearning of the Palestinian people to have a free and independent state” and “achieved through dialogue and negotiation peaceful coexistence”in [...]
