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The leader of a Jewish sect has been extradited from Brazil to Israel to face charges of abusing children in a purification ritual to expel demons.
Elior Chen fled in 2008 after two boys, aged 3 and 4, were taken to hospital with severe injuries. One...
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Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are rumblings that one of the stalwart vestiges of the revolution — the ration...
More than 150 Venezuelan university students ended a hunger strike Wednesday after the Organization of American States agreed to hear their concerns over alleged political persecution by President Hugo Chavez’s government, a protest leader...
This year alone, two countries in Latin America have loosened punishment for personal drug consumption, and two others have moved closer to a similar scenario.
Just a few years back, this would have provoked an outcry in the US.
In fact it did then:...
Although the Brazilian constitution defends freedom of speech and Brazil has proclaimed itself a democratic nation, news released last Friday, July 31st, left many Brazilians wondering if their Constitution is worth the paper it’s printed on. The...
As the naked, painted young men of the Kamayurá tribe prepare for the ritualized war games of a festival, they end their haunting fireside chant with a blowing sound — “whoosh, whoosh” — a symbolic attempt to eliminate the scent of fish so they...
Brazil’s Senate - whose president José Sarney, a former president of the nation, has been accused of corruption - apparently has a secret bank account operating millions of US dollars and a private “bunker” for a few, with facilities...
Only two letters separate “pre-salt” from “pre-school,” but between these two options is an immense separation for the future of Brazil. Diverse economic resources of Brazil have been presented, each in its own epoch, as the road...
HE simply said that he was surprised by the recognition – the 280th Anniversary plaque – presented to him by for his upright stand in defense of the traditions of our America and for his continuance of the legacy of the original peoples.
Bolivian...
Venezuela’s volatile President Hugo Chavez liked to call former US president George W. Bush the Diablo, Spanish for “the devil”, but at last month’s Summit of the Americas, one of Latin America’s most radical leaders had a book instead of an...
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