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By ADRIAN SAINZ AP Real Estate Writer (AP) - "(Foreign investors) love to have everything available to them once they walk out their front door," said Barbara Russo, an agent with The Corcoran Group Real Estate in Manhattan....
Tensions have been escalating in the last few weeks between Colombia and Venezuela, two neighboring countries which already have strained relations. In the blog Atrabilioso [es] , Jaime Restrepo writes : Si hay algo repetitivo...
Fidel Castro is one of the 20th centuries most recognisable figures. This led Castro to move further towards the Soviet Union and to model his regime on those at that time existing in Eastern Europe, albeit with a distinctly...
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, but...
For the first time since January 2008, the Economic Climate Index (ECI) in Latin America, (developed in partnership between the German Ifo Institute and Brazil's Getúlio Vargas Foundation) rose to 5.2 from 4.0 points between...
it's worth asking how the figure is calculated, since not everyone plays by American rules. Consider oil-rich Venezuela. Its central bank reported Tuesday that the country's economy shrank 4.5% in the third quarter, according...
New commercial buildings in San Mateo, Calif., will have to be constructed to minimum environmental standards now that a previously voluntary green building ordinance has become mandatory. The new standards take effect Jan. 1,...
Caribbean voters living in the tiny island of Dominica will head to the polls on Dec. 18 for general elections, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced during a rally. In an address to supporters of his Dominica Labor Party...
BOGOTA -- José Misael Valero Santana, who, according to Colombian prosecutors, led a paramilitary force of about 2,000 members in five Venezuelan border states, was arrested Wednesday. Valero Santana, 39, was sentenced in...
CARACAS, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Venezuela has taken control of four small banks for a variety of operational problems, Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez said on Friday. Speaking on television, Rodriguez said the government was in...
