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Google is seeking partnerships with computer manufacturers and telecom operators in Latin America. The company wants to take what he sees as “huge” growth opportunity in leading Internet companies in the region, told Reuters the company’s executive director for the region, Alexandre Hohagen. With Internet penetration rates still relatively [...]

A large deposit of amber 50 million years found in India can change the Earth’s geological history and anticipate the emergence of some species on the planet. All because the insects found trapped in the material show that the subcontinent was not as isolated as previously thought. Indian, Americans and Germans researchers spent two years in [...]

As the saying goes, ‘‘no good deed goes unnoticed’’, it could very well be the reason why both Carlos Slim and Bill Gates keep getting richer day by day. Both, considered to be two of the world’s wealthiest men have been known to be donating generous amounts of money to healthcare concerns across the globe. Now, Mr. Gates and Mr. Slim announced [...]

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a Geneva-based body, warned that ‘the world must prepare for a mass increase in climate-linked migration.’ Deemed as a certain reality in the foreseeable future, it is what leaders who wrangled deals at the Copenhagen Climate Conference failed to be alarmed about. The United Nations Climate Change [...]

According to NASA-funded research, the disappearance of the ‘once vibrant Maya society, dubbed as ‘one of the greatest demographic disasters in human prehistory,’ was due to the Maya themselves. According to veteran archeologist Tom Sever, “They did it to themselves.” The Maya flourished in Central America for 1,200 years, peaking in 900 [...]

Central America’s political climate is not unique. Wherever there is a leader that aspired to be a dictator, there always seems to be a military coup fashioned to topple him, and whenever there is insurmountable civil oppression due to abuses of power, there always seems to be a resulting civil war. Confrontations in Central America are caused by [...]

The coup d’etat in the small Central American nation of Honduras reveals the deep divisions of the area. The Venezuelan president’s Hugo Chávez leftist followers’ triumphal march provoked the established elites. The instinctive reaction in Honduras was, once again, to give a coup. The frontier area between Honduras and Nicaragua has [...]

Costa Rica, a country with less than 5 million people between Panama and Nicaragua, was the top overall ranking of the combination of long and happy life with limited environmental degradation. The country has a beautiful mixture inside a large diversity of species and has long been rid of its army. The merger of the ministries of energy and environment [...]

Designer drugs like Ecstasy and crystal meth are on the rise worldwide. On the other hand, the demand for conventional drugs such as cocaine and cannabis decreases. These are some of the conclusions presented in the recently published World Drug Report by the United Nations. Global demand for cocaine, opiates, and cannabis is stagnant or shrinking, [...]

Many renewable energy sources create news, but this one is unique ie.,it has a decent shot at commercial viability. Oil made from the seeds of the jatropha plant, native to Central America and used for centuries as a hedgerow, has helped to power test flights by Air New Zealand, Japan Airlines and Continental Airlines in the past six weeks. The oil’s [...]