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Rare Artifacts Discovered Near Tucson By Border Patrol Agents
May 12, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents discovered multiple artifacts during the last few months while patrolling in remote, rugged mountain areas west of the city. continue reading »
Cuban Tourism to See Boost with Increased Capacity and New Destinations
May 9, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
Cuba is intending to increase its hotel capacity on its offshore keys and islets to take advantage of the economic opportunities offered by tourism, according to leaders in the sector attending the 32nd International Fitur Fair. continue reading »
Brazilian Helicopter Crash Leaves 8 Dead, Including Murder Suspect
May 9, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
All eight people aboard were killed when a police helicopter crashed in the central Brazilian state of Goiás, authorities said. continue reading »
Closure of Rio Huge Dump Leaves 1200+ Scavengers Without Livelihood
April 21, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
The closure of Latin America's largest dump will put some 1,200 people out of work who live by selling the reusable goods they find among the 8,400 tons of trash produced daily by Brazil's second city. The city dump with the bucolic name of Gramacho Garden continue reading »
CareerBuilder Moves into South American Market by Acquires CEVIU in Brazil
April 21, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
CareerBuilder is making a much-anticipated move into the South American market with the acquisition of CEVIU.com.br, the leading information technology job board in Brazil. CEVIU features the most IT job listings in the country and its online traffic has had a compound annual growth rate of 158 percent over continue reading »
Outage Cuts Cell Phone Service to 16 Million People in Argentina- Sparking Social Media Protest
April 2, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
An outage left about 16 million customers of Spanish telecom company Movistar without cellular phone service Monday in Argentina, sparking protests on social-networking sites.The company is dealing with "an issue reported at a general level with the data, voice and SMS continue reading »
Thousands Take to the Streets to Promote Non-Polluting Pedal Power in Brazil
April 2, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
Some 6,000 people took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro over the weekend for an 11-kilometer (6.8-mile) bike ride as part of the World Bike Tour, which was held in the Brazilian city to promote alternative and non-polluting transportation, the official Agencia Brasil news agency reported. continue reading »
Mexican Family Accused of Human Sacrifices After 7 Year Old Disappears
March 30, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
Eight members of a Mexican family were arrested in the northern state of Sonora on suspicion of committing ritual murders, authorities said. The spokesman for the state Attorney General's Office, Jose Larrinaga, continue reading »
Decreasing Population of Monarch Butterflies from US and Canada Hibernate in Mexican Forests
March 17, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
Mexico has seen fewer hectares (acres) occupied by the monarch butterfly during its latest hibernation in the forests of the nation's central region, the head of the National Natural Protected Areas Commission, Luis Fueyo, said. continue reading »
16 Die in Peru as Bus Plunges into Ravine, 7 Injured
March 17, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
A bus plunged into a ravine in northwestern Peru, leaving 16 dead and seven injured, highway police told local media. The vehicle tumbled 200 meters (655 feet) down a hillside Friday near continue reading »
1,000 Mexican Artworks Digitally Documented in Germany, Austria
March 10, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
More than 1,000 Mexican artworks, some dating from pre-Columbian times and which were sent to Germany and Austria over the last four centuries, have been documented for the first time in a digital catalogue. continue reading »
President Chavez Twitter Message “I send You All My Supreme Love! We Will Live and We Will Win!”
March 3, 2012 | by Voice of America | Notitas de Noticias
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has vowed an October election victory, in his first public comment after surgery in Cuba this week to remove a pelvic lesion. continue reading »
AntiSEC and Anonymous Hack Private Prison Corporation
February 25, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
Antisec and Anonymous have hacked and defaced the website to private prison corporation GEO Group. This is one of the biggest money makers in the continue reading »
Nicaraguan Prison Inmates Hold Warden Hostage
February 25, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
The warden of La Esperanza prison in northern Nicaragua was taken hostage Friday amid a brawl between two groups of inmates, Deputy Interior Minister Carlos Najar said. continue reading »
Uruguay Urged to Provide Water to Its Poorest Communities
February 18, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on Uruguayan authorities to implement measures to provide access to health and sanitation to its poorest and most marginalized communities. continue reading »
Argentina Police Arrested for Leaking Corpse Photos of Model Jazmin de Grazia
February 12, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
The Argentine government has fired 11 Federal Police officers for their alleged responsibility in leaking photographs of the corpse of model Jazmin De Grazia that were published earlier this weekend in a Buenos Aires newspaper, police said Sunday. continue reading »
Handover of Recovered Sunken Treasure to Spain Moves One Step Closer
February 11, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued on Friday a mandate obliging a Florida company to hand over to Spain $500 million in gold and silver coins salvaged from the bottom of the Atlantic in May 2007. The Atlanta-based appellate panel sent a notification of the mandate to the district court in Tampa that originally heard the case pitting the Spanish government against Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. continue reading »
War-Torn Guatemalan Family Reunited After 25 yrs
February 9, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
A Maya family was reunited Wednesday in this capital 25 years after being separated by the country's 1960-1996 civil war. The Mutual Support Group, or GAM, with the help of the International Red Cross, brought Antonio Morales Bartolome together with his parents and daughter, from whom he and his wife were separated in 1987. continue reading »
Protesters Call for End to Bullfighting in Mexico City
February 6, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
About 1,000 animal rights activists staged a protest over the weekend in Mexico City to demand an end to bullfighting, a deep-rooted tradition in Mexico. The majority of the people who took part in Sunday's protest showed up at a plaza on the Paseo de la Reforma partially clothed and with simulated blood smeared on their bodies. continue reading »
Up Close One Year Later: Startling New Photos of Brazil Uncontacted Indians Released
February 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Notitas de Noticias
Survival International has released close-up pictures of uncontacted Indians, exactly a year after aerial photos from Brazil astonished the world. The new photographs taken in south-east Peru show an uncontacted family from the Mashco Piro. continue reading »
