Posts Tagged ‘South America’

Paypal is moving to Brazil

Thursday, October 29, 2009 7:58 By NARUTO

PayPal is the largest “intermediary payment” service in the world. For those who do not know, works like this: you create a PayPal account (usually associated with a credit card) and when you do some shopping online, instead of passing your bank details to any vendor that you may not know, you use PayPal as [...]

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Reinventing Sao Paulo’s downtown

Sunday, October 11, 2009 13:43 By NARUTO

In the beginning of July, a preliminary study was published which was prepared by the Herzog & Of Meuron office, and contracted by São Paulo State’s government. Just one hundred square meters will separate the building of the Júlio Prestes Station – projected by Christiano Stockler of Neves and in which ten years ago [...]

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Zelaya, Chavez, and the FARC: not-so-invisible connection

Friday, August 14, 2009 22:17 By GSerrano

Evidence has surfaced showing the connection between the supporters of deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and the largest South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is the missing link that directly explains why Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been openly working on Zelaya being [...]

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US started an arms race in South America

Saturday, August 1, 2009 22:18 By NARUTO

The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his colleague from Chile, Michelle Bachelet, demonstrated dissatisfaction in relation to the agreement that the neighbor Colombia should sign next weeks with the United States to increase the American troops in three American military bases that exist at the country.
The Colombian government, the largest receiver of [...]

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Is Venezuela becoming a narco-state?

Friday, July 17, 2009 21:45 By NARUTO

A report of the Congress of the USA notices about a strong penetration of the drug traffic in Venezuela, with a very significant increase of the volume of exports of drugs and of the complicity in the high civil and military authorities that collaborate and they protect to guerrilla and the Colombian criminal organizations.
Substantially, the [...]

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South American traffickers control cocaine trafficking in West Africa

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 3:33 By NARUTO

The trafficking of cocaine in Guinea-Bissau is controlled within mansions in Bissau, where the South American heads of trafficking and their men manage the arrivals and departures of tons of cocaine.

A global network and local consumption, high profits and political risks of explosion, this is the summary on the general impact of the sudden transformation [...]

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Hugo Chávez may be close to completely fail

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 16:31 By NARUTO

The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, has shown a remarkable resilience throughout his career of 20 years duration in policies of all colors and flavors. He is, par excellence, the kid that always recovers the success, as Bill Clinton used to call.

Facts: he attempted a coup, failed and was arrested, but returned triumphant from prison [...]

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UN announces drop in the production of cocaine from Colombia

Saturday, June 20, 2009 12:07 By NARUTO

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has shown Friday 20, that the area of cultivation of the coca leaf declined by 18 thousand hectares in 2008 in Colombia, for the previous year. But in Bolivia and Peru, there was an increase of 6% and 4.5% respectively.

Between 2007 and 2008, the cultivation of [...]

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Chevrolet Spark’s drive thro’ the Wedding Cake!

Monday, November 24, 2008 14:14 By Madhuri Katti

McCann Argentina has created this new spot for Chevrolet Spark where the bride and groom mischievously drive thro’ their huge wedding cake! That’s their stunt on their special day and well accomplished one too – thanks to their Chevy Spark.
This can mean anything from defying norms to outright rebellion to grand escape from all wedding [...]

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Run for your life! The Russians are coming back!

Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:22 By NARUTO

Since the end of the Cold War, the relationship between Russia and America is no longer in the past. But now, 20 years later, the Russian show influence in the region.
November 2008 could be called a month in Russia in much of America.
Russian high-level commission will visit Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua and Argentina. The [...]

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