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Written by FIE News
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Friday, 22 July 2011 |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 22 July 2011 )
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Written by Andrés Oppenheimer - Miami Herald
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Tuesday, 08 November 2011 |
 Following last week’s announcement that Venezuelan
President Hugo Chávez has created two new Cabinet ministries — the
Ministry of Ground Transportation and the Ministry of Air and Water
Transportation — it may be time to propose a new economic theory: that
countries’ economic development is inversely proportional to their
number of ministers.I’m not kidding. Last week, Chávez announced that
the previous Transportation Ministry will be split in two, creating the
two new Cabinet ministries that — like many others in Venezuela — will
be headed by military officers. The two new positions bring to 31 the
number of Venezuelan Cabinet ministries.Many Venezuelans took the
announcement with a mixture of humor and resignation. “We will soon see
ships crashing against airplanes,” joked one reader commenting on the
news of the new ministries in the daily El Universal, referring to the
chaos brought about by Venezuela’s giant government bureaucracy. Since
taking office in 1999, Chávez has created dozens of new Cabinet
ministries, some of them with titles that are hard to imagine fitting on
a business card. One of them, created less than a year ago, reads,
“Minister of State for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater
Caracas of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 November 2011 )
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Written by BBC Mundo
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 |
 ormer army general Otto Perez Molina, who vowed to
pursue a hard line against violent crime, has won Guatemala's
presidential run-off election on Sunday.Mr Perez Molina won some 54% of
the vote, with his rival, Manuel Baldizon, on 46%, electoral officials
said. Both candidates had promised to tackle growing insecurity and the
presence of Mexican drug gangs in the country.Guatemala is a key transit point for drugs from South America to the US.
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Written by VOA News.com
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
 Voters in Colombia head to the polls Sunday for
regional elections under the watchful eye of thousands of military
police officers. An estimated 130,000 candidates are vying for 13,000
posts, including governors, mayors, assemblymen, council members and
various municipal boards.In an effort to prevent violence, President
Juan Manuel Santos has deployed 300,000 troops for the safety of voters
and candidates.The Independent Electoral Observation Mission (IEOM) - an
independent watchdog group - says 41 candidates have been killed this
year during the campaign leading up to Sunday's vote, and scores have
received death threats.
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Written by Nicholas D. Kristof - New York Times
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Friday, 28 October 2011 |
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 Whenever I write about Occupy Wall Street, some readers ask me if the protesters really are half-naked Communists aiming to bring down the American economic system when they’re not doing drugs or having sex in public. The answer is no. That alarmist view of the movement is a credit to the (prurient) imagination of its critics, and voyeurs of Occupy Wall Street will be disappointed. More important, while alarmists seem to think that the movement is a “mob” trying to overthrow capitalism, one can make a case that, on the contrary, it highlights the need to restore basic capitalist principles like accountability. To put it another way, this is a chance to save capitalism from crony capitalists. I’m as passionate a believer in capitalism as anyone. My Krzysztofowicz cousins (who didn’t shorten the family name) lived in Poland, and their experience with Communism taught me that the way to raise living standards is capitalism.
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