Brazil’s government adopting measures aimed at producing the first sustainable World Cup in history. By Nelza Oliveira for Infosurhoy.com RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Brazil wants 2014 to be the year the World Cup goes green. The road to a sustainable soccer competition begins with the 12 stadiums of the host cities. In order to [...]
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The number of children working in dangerous or illegal jobs fell 14% in the past 10 years in the Dominican Republic – a remarkable turnaround from just a decade ago, when the country was called out for its high rate of child labor. Officials lauded the findings by the Labor [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – The growth of the Brazilian economy, together with the shortage of skilled labor, is attracting more foreign workers to the country. During the first half of 2011, a record 26,545 work visas were issued to foreigners – an increase of 19% compared to the same period in 2010, according to [...]
CURITIBA, Brazil – Vera wanted to sing, but she lost her breath every time she tried to raise her voice. As one of the 24 inmates in the Águia News Choir, at the Women’s Work Release Center (CRAF) in Curitiba, Paraná, it took a month of music for her to give up a 17-year addiction [...]
Maracaibo, Venezuela – Coromoto Torres can’t wait for her first trip overseas. Her bags are packed, her airline tickets are purchased and several years of savings have given her a purse full of bolívares. All her passport needs is a departure stamp. But she can’t take her first trip outside South America because she doesn’t [...]
MANAGUA, Nicaragua and GUATEMALA CITY – The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) has made it perfectly clear to Central America: It must do a lot more to stop the rise of the trafficking and consumption of synthetic drugs. That’s because synthetic drugs such as LSD, speed and ecstasy have displaced cocaine and heroin throughout [...]
Argentina is said to have a long history of instability with regards to politics and this has been the situation since the World War II. Argentina had almost went into a coma during its economic crisis in 2001 but it was able to rebound from this situation soon enough. During the economic crisis in 2008, [...]
Guatemala City – The nation’s levels of air pollution are alarming and the problem gets worse each year, according to the Annual Report on Air Monitoring. Authored by the Universidad de San Carlos (USAC) since 1995, the report concludes the main cause of poor air quality is exhaust from vehicles, specifically those used in public [...]
Guatemala City – The government is taking its fight against narco-trafficking to the sky. The C4i (Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence) system will have the ability to take aerial shots, which will assist law enforcement officials to identify areas that are hotbeds for drug activity. But it also will assist meteorologists because the system [...]
Lima, Peru – The government is determined to employ a multidisciplinary strategy to prevent young people from joining gangs, as more than 12,000 belong to the about 430 gangs in the capital city of Lima and nearby El Callao. Councilman Federico Tong Hurtado, an analyst on youth issues, said the number of young people involved [...]
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