From July 2010 to June 2011 the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina advertised 9,050 jobs openings. Only 752 Americans expressed interest, even though North Carolina’s unemployment rate is above 10 percent. Short-handed, farmers across the state have resorted to the H-2A visa program, which allows foreigners to work in the United States temporarily. So […]
Relationships between President Michel Martelly and the Haitian press took another nosedive on October 3, 2011 as the president launched his free education program for disadvantaged children at the National School of Tabarre, located 10 miles north of Port-au-Prince. “Don’t do that,” Martelly told Germain Etienne, a young reporter of Radio Scoop FM. “If you […]
Mexico Today, an outfit I’m proud to write for, just launched a great new interactive magazine for anyone looking to share experiences about Mexico. Right now the Mexico Today Social Magazine on Facebook is dominated by content from leading Mexico bloggers, covering such diverse topics as tortillas, infrastructure projects, and architecture. So if you’d like […]
“We have nothing against Mr. Conille, but we must respect the Constitution,” argued Senator Jean Hector Anacacis disputing the constitutionality of his candidacy. “He did not have his identification card, he has not voted, has not paid his taxes and is only someone seizing the moment to access the post of prime minister, overlooking conditions […]
The hurly-burly of two dozen supporters of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier shouting obscenities and paralyzing an Amnesty International press conference rattled the civil community, rights and advocacy groups. “It was a chilling reminder of the intimidation tactics the 1957 regime used against opinionated citizens,” wrote the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organizations (POHDH) in a […]
On Saturday Agustin Carstens announced a hands-off approach to the Mexican peso: “A neutral monetary policy is the right stance right now.” In normal times such a statement by a central banker rarely qualifies as news, even to the financial news wires. When conducted by an independent central bank monetary policy is a slow, bland […]
The irony of independence “He took me across the border and sold me to the Dominican soldiers for $8,” said Andre Prevot, a young Haitian boy caught in the pervasive slave trade along Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic (DR). Young Prevot met a man who promised him a good job in the DR; however, […]
Two months ago Netflix announced plans to expand its online streaming service to nearly all of Latin America, possibly tripling the company’s customer base. By 2013 it projects the $7.99 a month service will be a profitable enterprise, largely due to demand in Mexico and Brazil. And for 100 pesos, also about eight dollars, Fluffy […]
Brazil has grown in confidence over the last two years regarding its formerly unknown status as a world power outside of Latin America. Brazil shared its influence with the US during internal troubles in Honduras and was one of the key sources of aid after the quake in Haiti. Brazil also involved itself in the […]
In November 2010 the presidents of Latin America’s two largest economies pledged to hash out a free trade agreement. Per logic, Mexico has a consumer class of 100-plus million, Brazil twice that: each country stands to benefit. Yet free trade by numbers went out of vogue in the 1990s. Still, each country had implicit motives. […]
President Michel Martelly, among other world leaders, joined the list of heads of state speaking at Columbia’s World Leaders Forum, officials said yesterday. In addition to Martelly, King Abdullah II IBN Al Hussein of Jordan and Atifete Jahjaga, president of the Republic of Kosovo will also speak at the world-renown event that provide a platform […]
Outcries over Uruguayan peacekeepers’ rape allegations of an 18-year-old Haitian man did not spark the country’s distrust and disgust of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Haitians have protested peacekeepers’ overwhelming presence in their homeland since they landed following the 2004 ousting of former President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Many people even demanded their […]
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