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Migrants Still Sending Vast Sums Back to Latin America

amren.com
Mar 13, 2008
        
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$66 billion went south of the border last year.... ... Arizona Republic (Phoenix), March 11, 2008 WASHINGTON—Latin American and Caribbean migrants sent relatives back home a record $66 billion last year, but the remittances grew by the lowest rate ever, with Mexico and... [read full story]                    

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CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DOWNTURN CUTS INTO REMITTANCES

 onlinedemocracy.ca Mar 14, 2008
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Remittance Slowdown, Wake-Up Call for Latin America

 washingtonpost.com Mar 14, 2008
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CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY DOWNTURN CUTS INTO REMITTANCES

onlinedemocracy.ca
Mar 14, 2008
        

NEW YORK, (Mar. 7, 2008) IPS/GIN - Gerardo often waits in front of a 7-Eleven in Alexandria, Va., sporting a hat emblazoned with a bald eagle and a U.S. flag, hoping a builder or contractor will come by to offer a job. ... NEW YORK, (Mar. 7, 2008) IPS/GIN - Sometimes they...

US woes slow migrant remittances

freerepublic.com
Mar 14, 2008
        

The amount of money sent back home last year by millions of Latin Americans working abroad grew at the slowest rate in nearly a decade, partly due to the economic turndown in the US. For the first time since the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) started to study remittances in 2000, the...

Remittance Slowdown, Wake-Up Call for Latin America

washingtonpost.com
Mar 14, 2008
        

WASHINGTON -- Jesus Antonio Soriano had long wanted to give something back to his native Chalatenango, a province in northern El Salvador devastated by civil war in the 1980s. And so four years ago, the agronomist, with three partners, developed a plan to improve land values and create jobs by...