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Meet underscores urgency of going green
Rivera :: Uruguay | about 18 hours ago
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Speakers at the opening of the �Doha Green 2009 Conference� yesterday were in one accord saying it requires concerted efforts from all sectors in the society to act on current environment concerns confronting the world. �This conference brings together...
Tags: green building, Uruguay, Rivera, Environment, Doha, Sustainability, Environmentalism, Energy efficiency, Qatar, Sustainable building, Building, Building engineering
URUGUAY: Personal Touch Gets Kids Back in the Classroom
Montevideo :: Uruguay | about 22 hours ago
Credibility Camila lasted just one day at the junior high school in Gruta de Lourdes, a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Uruguayan capital. This brief taste of secondary education proved to be as difficult and boring as she had been warned by her cousins,...
Tags: PAC, community classrooms, dropped outs, primary schools, Camila, Casavalle, secondary schools, told ips, IPS, Secondary Education Council, Uruguay, Montevideo, Education
Maradona not going anywhere before World Cup
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 day ago
Credibility If critics expect Argentina football federation president Julio Grondona to fire Diego Maradona before the 2010 World Cup, they are in for some bitter disappointment if history is any indication. Argentina's World Cup qualifying campaign was akin to...
Tags: world cup, South Africa, Cape Town, allnews, FIFA World Cup, Didier Drogba, FIFA 100, Uruguay, Argentina national football team, South African sport, Lionel Messi, Julio Grondona, Mohamed Aboutrika, New Maradona, David Beckham, Diego Maradona, Cￃﾴte d'Ivoire national football team
Rift widening between Brazil, Argentina
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 1 day ago
Credibility South America's two largest economies are increasingly in conflict over trade and even politics. That could hurt Argentina at a time when it should be benefiting from a vigorous economic rebound in Brazil, its biggest trading partner. Brazil, led by a...
Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Spanish-speaking countries, Foreign relations of Argentina, Gaucho, Mercosur, Uruguay, Liberal democracies, Foreign relations of Uruguay
Busy schedule for Bafana Bafana
São Paulo :: Brazil | 2 days ago
Credibility Bafana Bafana head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira gets down to the business end of getting his players battle ready for the 2010 World Cup finals early next year with a hectic schedule which kicks off in Durban next month. Bafana will play at least six...
Tags: Bafana, Uruguay, Sipho Nkumane, Brazil, Germany, world cup, São Paulo, Cape Coloureds, Benni McCarthy, Aaron Mokoena, Carlos Alberto Parreira, Elrio van Heerden, South Africa national football team, South African sport, allnews
DEVELOPMENT: Afro-Uruguayan Women Find Their Own Way Home
Montevideo :: Uruguay | 3 days ago
Credibility Contrary to popular belief in Uruguay, the capital city�s black population is no longer concentrated in neighbourhoods like Barrio Sur, Palermo and Cord�n, which were historically home to the majority of African descendents and remain heavily steeped...
Tags: Alicia Garc, Palermo, Edgardo Ortu, Afro-Uruguayan, uruguayans community, UFAMA Cord, uruguayans cultural, Mundo Afro, Montevideo, Ansina, Uruguay, African diaspora, Afro, Ethnic groups in South America, Candombe, African American culture
American guerrilla presidents
Lon :: Burkina Faso | 4 days ago
Credibility Mujica is the latest leader to leap from radical to democrat. Across Latin America, old hard liners are finding success with moderate, leftist politics. On Sunday, 29th November, Uruguayans put their faith in a new leader. President Elect José “Pepé”...
Tags: Mujica American, Burkina Faso, Lon, Josￃﾩ Mujica, Politics, Uruguay
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano | Book review
Madrid :: Spain | 4 days ago
Credibility Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano Heroes rub shoulders with villains and apes in Eduardo Galeano's magical history of mankind, writes Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel The speculum, espéculo or mirror, understood as a sort of whimsical anthology...
Tags: Eduardo Galeano Heroes, Alberto Manguel Alberto Manguel, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Spain, Madrid, Eduardo Galeano, Uruguay, Mirror, Alberto Manguel, Open Veins of Latin America, Speculum
Uruguay shuffles left | Mike Gonzalez
Montevideo :: Uruguay | 6 days ago
Credibility Uruguay shuffles left Although José Mujica's election as president seems to follow Latin America's shift leftward, he has buried his guerrilla roots Latin America has changed dramatically in the last decade. The familiar dictatorial regimes of the past...
Tags: José Mujica, Uruguayan, Frente Amplio, Ramon Tabaré Vázquez, Latin America, Uruguay, Montevideo, Josￃﾩ Mujica, Tupamaros, Politics, Juan Domￃﾭnguez, Tabarￃﾩ Vￃﾡzquez, Year of birth missing, Elections in Uruguay, Broad Front
Week in geek: District 99p: Why science-fiction may triumph in the recession | Ben Child
Montevideo :: Uruguay | 7 days ago
Credibility In these times of straitened budgets, film-makers are increasingly having to look outside the usual avenues to find the cash they need to fund their pet projects. Sir Ben Kingsley himself was in India earlier this week touting his planned historical epic...
Tags: Alvarez-Raimi, Neil Blomkamp, Federico Alvarez, panic attack, Sam Raimi, special effects, Uruguay, Montevideo
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