Mark Stevenson Associated Press Cancun, Mexico (AP) — The host nation of the U.N. climate talks in Cancun on Wednesday called the U.S. pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions “modest,†while praising other nonbinding offers made by India and China. President Barack Obama has proposed reducing U.S. emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 [...]
Santiago, Chile (AP) — Economists say poverty in Latin America is declining as the region struggles to recover from two years of financial crisis. The U.N.’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that 180 million people are living in poverty today in Latin American countries, which represents a return to 2008 levels. [...]
Mexico City (AP) —The quesadilla had more zip Wednesday and the taco tasted just a bit sweeter as Mexico celebrated its food being put on the United Nations list of intangible cultural heritage, alongside the lofty art of eating in France. The U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized everything from the growing of [...]
Mexico City (AP) —Mexico’s celebrated winter visitor, the Monarch butterfly, has a new conservation center aimed at boosting its dwindling numbers. The black and orange insect has been hit hard by deforestation around its winter nesting grounds in Michoacan state.
Mexico City (AP) — Recriminations from a border dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica rippled throughout the region Sunday as Mexico and Costa Rica hotly denied Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s suggestion that drug-trafficking interests were behind a regional vote on the issue that didn’t go his way. The Mexican Foreign Relations Department said in a [...]
Ixtli MartÃnez Associated Press Writer Oaxaca, Mexico (AP) — Citizens who formerly led street protests and manned barricades in the troubled southern state of Oaxaca were sworn in as members of the local congress Saturday, in what the governor-elect called a historic change. Flavio Sosa, the leader of leftist protesters who battled police and shut [...]
Christopher Toothaker Associated Press Caracas, Venezuela (AP) — Facing a wave of criticism from business leaders, President Hugo Chávez is defending his order for government officials to seize control of residential complexes. Chávez promised Sunday to crack down on construction and real estate companies that he accused of unjustly boosting prices, which he labeled “housing [...]
Mark Stevenson Associated Press Writer Mexico City (AP) — Five Pemex workers went to their jobs at a government-owned gas compression plant near the Texas border six months ago and never returned. Masked men, apparently members of a drug cartel operating there, had warned employees of Petroleos Mexicanos that they were no longer allowed to [...]
Paul Haven Associated Press Havana, Cuba (AP) — A prominent Cuban dissident has pulled back from a threat to launch a hunger strike to pressure the government to free the last 13 political prisoners jailed in a 2003 crackdown, saying Monday that he was heeding a call for restraint from the men and their wives. [...]
Anita Snow Associated Press United Nations (AP) — People around the globe are healthier, richer, and better educated than ever before, with most developing countries registering huge gains over the last 40 years, a U.N. report released Nov. 4 shows. Asia was the region that progressed fastest in terms of human development since 1970, with [...]
