The MBA Group from Argentina Expands Its Operations in Central America and Opens Office in Panama.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The MBA Group, a leading investment banking firm in Argentina and the Southern Cone, announced that as of January 2007 it will continue its advisory operations in Central America through MBA Centroamerica S.A, with headquarters in Panama City. MBA is associated with...

Politics, economy, and society in Bourbon Central America, 1759-1821.
9780870818448 Politics, economy, and society in Bourbon Central America, 1759-1821. Ed. by Jordana Dym and Christophe Belaubre. U. Press of Colorado 2007 310 pages $60.00 Hardcover F1437 Dym (Latin American history,...

Inspired flavor. Creations beyond your imagination.
An elegantly earthy flavor, McCormick(N) Gourmet Collection[TM] Black Sesame Seeds add the perfect nutty taste and texture to Asian and Mediterranean inspired dishes Known as the "benne seed," our black sesame seeds thrive in Asia, North Africa, and Central America and help you dream up an endless amount of...

Mentorship and Maya healing: NLJ's interview with Rosita Arvigo: herbalists Maria Muscarella and Nikki Solomon interview the renowned practitioner about learning from lineage and passing on those lessons.
Rosita Arvigo is a recognized authority on Maya healing techniques and medicinal plants and has been teaching these techniques in the United States and Europe for over 10 years. She has spent the last several decades in Central America, where she's studied with dozens of traditional healers and midwives,...

Loose change yields 500 glasses.
Loose change can buy a cup of coffee. Or, pulled together, can buy reading glasses and new beginnings for some people in Central America. Parishioners at St. John's in Burlington, Ont., decided to make their "change jar" do wonders, and with the generosity of a local pharmacy,...

Phylogeographic patterns of differentiation in the Acorn Woodpecker.
The montane forests of North and Central America have had a complex history and geography over the past 100,000 years (Graham 1975, Wells 1983). During the Pleistocene, montane areas, particularly in the northern part of the region, appear to have been largely covered by ice or tundra and, thus,...

Central America's Unofficial Entrepreneurs; Half of those who consider starting businesses would stick to the informal sector.
Byline: Jesus Rios Synopsis: At least 40% of the populations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua say they have at some point considered starting a business of their own, but about half of the prospective entrepreneurs in these countries are "lost" to the informal...

eTelecare to Add Near-Shore Delivery Center in Nicaragua.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-17 August 2008-eTelecare to Add Near-Shore Delivery Center in Nicaragua(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com eTelecare Global Solutions, a provider of complex multi-channel business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, will expand into Latin America with a new service delivery center near Managua, Nicaragua. When fully operational,...

Abbyy Opens New Branch in Taiwan.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-19 August 2008-Abbyy Opens New Branch in Taiwan(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Abbyy, a provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, announced the opening of its new office, Abbyy USA Software House, Taiwan Branch, which officially began operation on August 8, the company said....

BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard `Repo Man' director will appear at Bijou tonight Film actor, writer and director Alex Cox ("Repo Man") will be in town tonight only for a showing of his new movie "Searchers 2.0" at Bijou Art Cinemas, 492 E. 13th Ave. ...