Over 700 Gang Members in Central America Arrested in U.S.-Assisted ActionsRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have brought criminal charges against more than 700 members of cross-border criminal organizations, primarily the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs, in a U.S.-assisted effort, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday, November 27th. "The U.....
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'No Democracy Without Women': Priced out of Politics in El SalvadorRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The first time Karla Hernandez ran for office in El Salvador, she kept seeing a male candidate from her party in expensive television adverts, while she scraped by on a shoestring - relying on volunteers to hand out flyers and knock on doors. Hernandez was elected anyway, bu....
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Ferry and Tugboat Sunk in Bahia State to be Used for Underwater TourismRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A ferry and a tugboat were sunk in the Todos-os-Santos Bay, near Salvador, on Saturday, November 21st. The sinking point is located exactly 1.5 kilometers off the coast. The two vessels will be used for underwater tourism in the state. This was the first time that a ferry wa....
It is Official: Carnival 2021 in São Paulo and Salvador to Occur From July 8th to 11thSÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - São Paulo and Salvador have decided to hold a unified Carnival from July 8th to 11th of next year. According to Carnival specialist Dam Menezes, both capitals now expect Rio de Janeiro to confirm the date too. However, in a meeting on Monday, November 9th, the Independent Leagu....
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Bahia State Main Stronghold of Rejection to Bolsonaro in BrazilRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The latest opinion polls have confirmed that the state is the main focus of rejection of Bolsonarism in the country. Half of Bahians consider the President's management bad or terrible. In the capital Salvador, 62 percent reject the federal administration. Data from the IBGE....
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Spain to get first Pfizer vaccines in early 2021, Health Minister saysMADRID: Spain would get the first vaccines against Covid-19 developed by U.S. pharmaceuticals Pfizer and its partner BioNTech in early 2021, Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Tuesday.The country would initially get 20 million vaccine doses, enough to immunize 10 million people, Illa said in an i....
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Central America braces for 'extremely dangerous' Hurricane EtaMANAGUA: Hurricane Eta was hours from making landfall in Central America on Tuesday after gaining strength in the Caribbean Sea, threatening Honduras and Nicaragua with catastrophic winds and floods.The "extremely dangerous" weather system was packing winds of 150 miles (240 kilometers) an hour as i....
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Official Election Results in Bolivia: MAS Wins by Overwhelming MajorityRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - After another two-day delay, Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) Chief Judge Salvador Romero announced the official election results on Friday evening. The Movement for Socialism (MAS) is confirmed as the winner of the first round with a considerable lead. The democratic process o....
Brazilian and Chilean Win Latin American 'Just Dance' CompetitionRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian Tiago Silva, 23, and Chilean Taina Arancibia, 21, were the winners of the first Latin American competition of the "Just Dance" game, which took place on Saturday evening, October 17th. Broadcast live on the internet, the event began with a concert by the band Olodu....
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Arrest of former defense minister shatters trust in Mexico's armed forcesThe general's speech was forceful and unequivocal, his demeanor somber and severe. Impeccably dressed in full military uniform, Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, then Mexican Secretary of Defense, spoke before a group of thousands of Mexican soldiers under his command on a spring day in April 2016 at Mili....
Review: Shawnee exhibit offers surreal, grotesque trip through Dali's mindBy John Brandenburg, for The OklahomanA rhapsodic, but also surreal and at times grotesque, trip through the mind and art of Salvador Dali is on view in Shawnee.
The large show contains the small illustrations Dali did for "Les Chants (Songs) de Maldoror,'" and Dante's "The Divine Comedy."
It is o....
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Oklahoma County marriage, divorce records for Oct. 13, 2020MARRIAGES
Elizabeth Lloyd Cromwell and Justin Joseph Acklin
Mallory Elizabeth Wyatt and Guillermo Andres Rivera Velazquez
Jolene Antoinette Rice and Moore Caleb Andrew
Marcie Ann McNew and Jason Michael Mackinnon
Kirsten Jade Bowen and Thomas Chase Lewis
Lindsay Rachelle Rucker and Anthony Tho....
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Staple Food Prices Rise in 17 Brazilian Capitals in SeptemberRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The staple food prices, required for the meals of an adult for a month, has increased on the 17 Brazilian capitals researched in September. The higher increases were observed in Florianópolis (9,80 percent), Salvador (9,70 percent), and Aracaju (7 . . . To read the full NEW....
El Salvador's Government Accused Of 'Making Deals' With Gangs, But Officials Claim Evidence Is FakedThe Central American nation of El Salvador is dealing with public outcry after leaked documents published last month suggested that the government had secretly been making deals with notorious gangs in exchange for support in the upcoming elections. Officials have denied that such closed-door commu....
Tributes after Argentine cartoonist Quino dies aged 88Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado, the creator of the beloved comic strip Mafalda, has died at the age of 88, his editor announced Wednesday.View on euronews....
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Coronavirus: latest global developmentsPARIS: Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:UK heading in 'wrong direction'British health experts say that the coronavirus is out of control as case numbers and hospital admissions rise despite a slew of new restrictions on social gatherings."Things are definitely heading in th....
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Creator of beloved Argentina cartoon character Mafalda dies at 88Argentine cartoonist Quino, the creator of Mafalda, the inquisitive and quick-witted girl who used humor and irony to call for greater democracy in the crisis-prone country, has died at the age of 88, his editor reported Wednesday. Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known as Quino, recently suffered....
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How might Trump's nominee rule on immigrants? A hate group just gave her a thumbs-upHow does impeached President Donald Trump's illegitimate nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Supreme Court rank when it comes to rulings on immigration? Well, the fact that Amy Coney Barrett appeared to get a thumbs-up from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), an anti-immigrant hate g....
Latin America's virus victims, and the spaces they leave behindMEXICO CITY: An untouched exercise bike, a guitar that has gone silent, an empty couch — these are just a few of the cherished possessions and everyday habits that tell the story of those who have died from Covid-19.The global pandemic has claimed nearly one million lives, about a third of those i....
Spain sentences Salvadoran ex-officer to 133 years in jail over priests' massacreSpain’s High Court sentenced a former army colonel from El Salvador on Friday to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989 during the Central American country’s civil war. Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, 77, was also found responsible by the judges for t....
El Salvador prosecutors search prisons in pact investigationSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Prosecutors in El Salvador said Monday they have searched two prisons to investigate whether the administration of President Nayib Bukele had negotiated with one of the country's most powerful gangs to lower the murder rate and win their support in mid-term electio....
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AES Tietê invests in wind energy in BahiaStarting in October, work on the installation of wind turbines for the first wind power complex in the Northeast region of Bahia, located between the municipalities of Tucano, Araci and Biritinga, 268 km from Salvador, is expected to begin, which will have an installed capacity of 322 Megawatts (MW)....
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To perceive faces, your brain relies on a process similar to face recognition systemsImagine if every time you looked at a face, one side of the face always appeared distorted as if it were melting, resembling a painting by Salvador Dalí. This is the case for people with hemi-prosopometamophosia (hemi-PMO). A new study finds that people with hemi-PMO see distortions to the same hal....
Spain again grapples with Europe's worst virus infection rateMADRID: Just seven weeks after bringing its first coronavirus wave under control, experts say Spain is once again in a "critical" situation with the worst infection rate in Western Europe.
The country reported an average of 4,923 new daily cases of the respiratory disease during the last seven da....
A tally by the WHO indicates that more than 12-hundred people in North Korea have been tested for the coronavirus... and all received negative results. Nearly seven hundred North Korean nationals are under quara....
The World Health Organization says North Korea had tested one-thousand-211 people for COVID-19 as of July 16th and the regime claims all of them were negative. Edwin Salvador, the representative of the WHO offic....
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El Salvador advances in wind energy projectsThe bet of the current government of El Salvador to diversify the energy matrix continues. For this year 2020, in the Municipality of Metapán, in the coming months, the first wind power plant in El Salvador will come into operation, in charge of the company VENTUS, it is a million dollar investment....
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Latino LA Times Journalists Tell Leadership the Paper 'Continues to Fail' Its Latino AudienceThe Los Angeles Times Guild’s Latino Caucus sent a letter to the newspaper’s leadership Tuesday, demanding internal changes and better representation and service for the paper’s Latino audience.
The letter, which was delivered exactly four weeks after the Black Caucus sent its ow....
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N. Korea has zero confirmed cases of COVID-19: WHOOver 1,100 North Koreans were tested for COVID-19 by early July, and all of them turned out negative, an official of the World Health Organization said Monday. A total of 1,117 people got tested for the novel coronavirus as of July 9, Edwin Salvador....
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Retired AP correspondent Arthur Rotstein dies from COVID-19PHOENIX (AP) — Arthur H. Rotstein, a retired Associated Press correspondent who covered southern Arizona for nearly 30 years and documented the wave of illegal immigration that swept the state in the mid-1990s, has died at age 74.
His daughter, Rebekah Rotstein, said he died Monday morning from....
Barangay officials in W. Visayas accused of cash aid anomaliesMANILA, Philippines – Barangay officials and other government employees from Western Visayas are accused of irregularities in their distribution of cash aid under the government's emergency subsidy program (ESP) for the coronavirus pandemic.
On Wednesday, July 8, the chairman, kagawad, and 4....
'If you believe in your own lies': Janella Salvador dares former PA to press chargesMANILA, Philippines – Actress Janella Salvador took to social media on Wednesday, July 8 to answer – and dismiss —allegations that she did not pay former personal assistant Michelle Pelongco her last wage.
On Tuesday, July 7, Pelongco went to the radio show Raffy .......
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Uber Launches Supermarket Shopping Delivery to Tackle CrisisRIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Tuesday, July 7th, Uber announced a partnership with the Cornershop supermarket delivery startup, which allows users to shop through Uber and Uber Eats apps. As of yesterday, users from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Florian....
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Uber users will soon see a 'grocery' button in ride-hailing, Eats appsUber started as a ride-hailing app in 2009, but it expanded into restaurant delivery in 2014. Now, it's offering groceries.
On Tuesday, Uber added grocery delivery in its app through Chilean startup Cornershop. To begin, users in 19 Latin American and Canadian cities can use the new option to buy g....
