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Analysis: Cut off after bridge collapsed, Puerto Ricans cross river with cable

It is truly heart breaking on what these natural disasters have done to these places these past few months. For people to be isolated like they’re in San Lorenzo right now is horrible. I know FEMA is going to get back to them and help them soon but I hope they do it as soon as possible. The children, the ill,… Read more »

Cut off after bridge collapsed, Puerto Ricans cross river with cable

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/americas/puerto-rico-san-lorenzo/index.html San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico (CNN)Nelson Maldonado had already gone days without running water or electricity, after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico. On Thursday, he went to check on his wife’s 95-year-old grandmother, Rosa M. Torres, who was also living without power through sweltering heat and humidity. She lives across the river from him, in the mountainous town of San… Read more »

BRAZIL: CLEANING OUT FAVELAS

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http://latinamericanpost.com/index.php/global-issues/16681-brazil-cleaning-out-favelas   Rocinha, the largest favela in Brazil, was taken over by the nation’s army in order to guarantee its lack of drug traffickers and delinquency. 950 soldiers have been deployed in response to a request from the Rio de Janeiro state government, which faces liquidity problems, said Defense Minister Raúl Jungmann. So far, the death toll has risen to… Read more »

BOLIVIA: THE LARGEST COMMERCIAL HUB?

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http://latinamericanpost.com/index.php/business-2/16686-bolivia-the-largest-commercial-hub   Things are fast changing in Bolivia. Through a $120 million-dollar loan from the Inter-American Development Bank, Bolivia will be able to optimize its institutional capacity for transportation which will improve infrastructure and operations for the South American country over the next 40 years. The transport sector generated 7.83% of the national GDP in 2015 and created workspaces for… Read more »

IS MADURO TRYING TO BETTER HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH TRUMP?

Since the Venezuelan Government dissolved the democratically elected parliament earlier on this year, the United States’ president has signed executive orders imposing economic sanctions on the South American nation. Even the American president, Donald Trump, mentioned that he doesn’t discard a military intervention to bring back the democracy in the said nation. The socialist country is well known for its… Read more »