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Patricia Grogg , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
HAVANA, Aug 8 (IPS) - "If you work it properly, the land here can produce anything, and with a guaranteed market. Cuba is an agricultural country. We should not have to import food," says Rubén Torres, who has made a success of farming outside of the city of Santa Clara in...
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Aug 08, 2007
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Interview with Luis Alberto Cordero , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
SAN JOSÉ, Aug 8 (IPS) - Economic growth in Central America is not matched by equitable distribution, according to Luis Alberto Cordero, head of the Arias Foundation, who thinks that ostentatious wealth causes frustration in those who have nothing, and that this sometimes translates into violence....
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Aug 08, 2007
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Inés BenÃtez* , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 7 (IPS) - Twenty years after the signing of the agreement that laid the foundations for peace in Central America, the economic and social causes of the civil wars that shook the region are still in place, and represent latent threats of new conflicts, analysts warn....
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Aug 08, 2007
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Kalinga Seneviratne , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
SINGAPORE, Aug 8 (IPS) - For 12 years Siti Muyasaroh slaved as an underpaid and overworked housemaid in this affluent South-east Asian nation. Still, during that time, she completed a nursing aid course and acquired a diploma in business English from a British university....
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Aug 08, 2007
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IMPHAL, Manipur, Aug 7 (IPS) - For the past fortnight, the menu on the Manipur state government’s table has changed from the staple of fighting HIV infections to stamping out an outbreak of avian influenza....
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Aug 07, 2007
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BEIJING, Aug 7 (IPS) - When the capital of the Middle Kingdom hosts the summer Olympics next year, nothing will be left to chance or spontaneity. Image-conscious and averse to PR gaffes, Chinese leaders are staging a grand rehearsal to fine-tune a coming out party into the world....
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Aug 07, 2007
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Marcela Valente , IPS Inter Press Service - Development
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 7 (IPS) - Above and beyond the political rhetoric in favour of South American integration, Mercosur and Venezuela have not eliminated their mutual suspicions, which are delaying Venezuela’s admission to the trade bloc as the fifth full member, a move that was announced with great fanfare in late...
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Aug 07, 2007
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, IPS Inter Press Service - Development
MEXICO CITY, Aug 6 (IPS) - Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has incorporated Mexico into his regional strategy to promote ethanol production....
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Aug 07, 2007
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BANGKOK, Aug 7 (IPS) - For all its talk of good governance, the World Bank continues to choose its words carefully when reprimanding errant states it has big stakes in. What is happening in Cambodia is typical....
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Aug 07, 2007
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SAO PAULO, Aug 6 (IPS) - Brazil’s air crisis is changing the look of the crowds in bus stations in large cities like Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Many well-heeled Brazilians are opting, for the first time, to travel by bus in order to avoid the mounting delays in airports...
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