This is not surprising as, according to a 2012 report by the NGO Acción Ciudadana, campaigns in Guatemala are among the most expensive in Latin America. ... (According to El País, vote buying on a massive scale is an open secret in Mexico, Latin America’s second-largest economy (8)). ...…
The discipline is rooted in the spirituality of the priesthood in the Western and Latin Church. ... We accept married priests in the Eastern Churches where there’s this tradition, but the Latin Church will continue with celibacy in the priesthood in this way. ..…
Mexico is one of the rare exceptions in Latin America to these developments. ... This is the most important country in Latin America, one of the most important in the world. ..…
Delegations from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic participated in the meeting, which was chaired by Nelson Shack Yalta, Comptroller General of the Republic of Peru, in his capacity as President of OCCEFS, which includes national audit..…
Investors did not believe that IMF and World Bank had such strangle hold over Latin American, Asian, and African countries that they could make the countries act in the interest of United States and the cosmopolitan finance capital, instead of in their own national interest. ..…
The state budget also contained $27.5 million in gifts for several California museums, including one-time allocations to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust ($6 million), the Armenian Museum and Cultural Center ($5 million), the Korean American National Museum ($4 million), the Latino Theater..…
Guaidó visited Washington shortly before his self-appointment and subsequently toured a number of Latin American countries but has “only traveled to 11 of Venezuela’s 23 states,” according to Reuters. ..…
In this meeting, Spanish Foreign Minister, 72, said that Nicaragua and Venezuela are the worst crises that Latin America has lived through in time, and that Europe must do something about it... ..…
The Post said all 16 of the Latin Americans who told the paper that they had worked at Bedminster without legal status also claimed 'their managers knew.' . ..…
A Conversation With Latin Patriarch Emeritus Michel Sabbah . . May 26, 2017 10:04 Anne Kurian . . . . . ..…
It's unusual move for any country to comment on who the president of another country should be, to have countries that represent two-thirds of the population of Latin America do it in minutes shows there was alignment that's got to be unprecedented in the history of Latin America... ..…
There were so many little acts of kindness – and far bigger ones too, when she sacked the RE teacher (a vicar from the Church over the road) for informing the class more than once in an Old Testament lesson that I had personally killed Jesus, and when she advised me in the Lower 6th to transfer to a school..…
Since God was believed to have granted the US possession of the continent, it followed that it should include the Caribbean and Latin America too. . ... In 1823 President Monroe declared that the US would be the arbiter of disputes and protector of the Caribbean and Latin America from then..…
Latin America trek forces migrants to spend at least week trudging across swampland and hiking through mountainous rainforests in Darien Gap that is the only link between Panama and Colombia.. ..…
An Ecuadorian attending the panel called Venezuela “the light for Latin America,” because of its internationalist commitment to helping people. ..…
On the qualitative side, case study research focusing largely on sub-Saharan Africa (and, to a lesser extent, on Latin America and Asia) showed that profit-based incentives are co-mingled with narratives of grievance and embedded in a larger global political economy. . ..…
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