Radisson Hotels & Resorts(R) Expands Complimentary High-Speed Internet Access to Latin America.
Complimentary Guestroom Connectivity Now Available in 46,622 Guestrooms in the Americas MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Radisson Hotels & Resorts(R) today announced that complimentary high-speed Internet access has been expanded into Latin America and is now available in all guestrooms in the Americas region. This includes 206...

The privatization of citizen security in Latin America: from elite guards to neighborhood vigilantes.
IN LATIN AMERICA, THE COMBINATION OF DEMOCRATIZATION, NEOLIBERALISM, AND record crime rates has converged to spur such a phenomenal growth in private security that private security guards now outnumber public police officers in nearly every country. Although governments and scholars alike have recognized this growth, there has been very...

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Global Mission Festival Set in Winter Park, Fla., Jan. 26-28, 2007.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A "Global Mission Festival" hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will feature the Rev. Munib A. Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Rev. Ruben F. Duran, director for develop of new...

Digitonthophagus gazella (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): distribucion en America y dos nuevos registros para Colombia.
Resumen: Se hace una revisión de literatura acerca del área de distribución de la especie Indo-africana Digitontbophagus gazella (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) a partir de su introducción en 1972 en Norteaméfica, hasta este momento. Su rango de dispersión ha alcanzado la colonización casi completa de Centroamérica y parte de Suramérica. Además...

Haiti and Latin America.
In 2005, several Haitians attended the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in a desperate attempt to tell all who would listen about the United States-backed coup d'etat just 10 months earlier that led to the ouster of their democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Haiti has always been...

Manufacturing without borders: Costa Rica continues to gain ground as Latin America's next big manufacturing hub.
In his recent bestseller, The World is Flat, author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman discusses the many and varied economic and social shifts that have led to a leveling between industrial and emerging-market countries. Among his list of "flatteners" he highlights the rise of outsourcing, offshoring and...

DKSH North America, Inc.
HEADQUARTERS: 300 East Lombard Street, Suite 1175 Baltimore, MD 21202 USA Tel. (410) 385-1666 Fax (410) 385-1266 www.dksh.com FOUNDED: In 1985, the Switzerland-based SiberHegner Group established a division in the US. In 2002, the Diethelm Keller Group...

Aircraft News - Latin America / Caribbean.
Aug 6, 2007 Copa Airlines Copa Airlines Friday took delivery of its eighth 94-seat Embraer E-190, bringing its total fleet to 32 aircraft. It will take three more E-190s and two Boeing 737-800s before year end. Jul 30, 2007 TACA Regional ...

Through the eyes of the condor: in his latest project for the National Geographic Society, photographer Robert Haas spent over two years looking at Latin America from on high, with a view to capturing the region's soul.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] "I do what I do because I think it's important," explained photographer Robert Haas. "It's important to show people what a stunning home we have here on Earth; it's important to show a world that has only natural boundaries, not political borders; it's important to...

Aircraft News - Latin America / Caribbean.
Oct 1, 2007 Boeing Boeing forecasts a $2.8 trillion worldwide market for new commercial airplanes over the next 20 years and projects a need for approximately 28,600 new commercial airplanes (passenger and freighter), doubling the world fleet by 2026. The vast majority of these new...