Same-sex couples in Uruguay will be able to adopt children as the bill was approved by the country's senate. This change means that Uruguay has become the first country in Latin America that allows same-sex couples to adopt children. For a long time, Uruguay has held a...
Famous Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti passed away from liver failure at the age of 88 on Sunday. Benedetti was know as one of Latin America’s most influential writers, having had authored numerous novels, poems, short stories and plays, among them “The Truce”, “Left...
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John Travolta may have said it best in the movie, Pulp Fiction, “It’s the little differences…” One of the things that makes travel enlightening (whether it’s a trip from Charleston, SC to Asheville,...
Caracas, Venezuela, 10 January 2009. In an official ceremony at "El Sombrero" - Guarico state -, Chinese officials handled the full control of Simon Bolivar satelite to Venezuelan officials. The...
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Despite the massive approval of the Venezuelan entry at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, conservatives at the senate led by José Agripino Maia and Sergio Guerra have promised to block the approving...
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Despite polls that suggested a majority of Uruguayans favoured easing their country's restrictions on abortion, President Tabare Vazquez vetoed a bill to decriminalise it in the first 12 weeks of...
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Abortion is now in the political agenda of Uruguay. As Congress approved - by a small margin- a bill to decriminalise it in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, President Tabare Vazquez has the last word. Some...
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Jewel in the Crown of Southwest France Appellations is what Wine Online Ireland calls the Domaine du Moulie Madiran 2003. I bought the 2004 Vintage?Where is Madiran you might ask?Nearby Armagnac in the Gers.The grape is Tannat which has now become popular in Uruguay.It is...
Brazilian longings for a nuclear sub has gone for decades. Now and with the assistance of France, it would be able to make such project true. Brasilia expects to sign a military...
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" by Guillermo Almeyra. Things have reached boiling point in Bolivia, where right-wingers emboldened and encouraged by Washington have set out on an upsurge in violence likely to culminate in civil war....
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" Franklin Durán and Carlos Kauffman, the two Venezuelans accused in the US of conspiring to act as cover agents of Venezuela in the so-called "suitcase scandal," allegedly paid bribes to officials and military...
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A study claims Red Bull can increase the risk of heart damage. University students in Australia participated in a study, which showed they had the same cardiovascular profile as someone with heart...
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Churuguara, Edo.Falcon,Venezuela, 15 August 2008. This morning, Ex Bishop Fernando Lugo took office as the new President of Paraguay. Left leaning Lugo was elected President - for a fve year term- on 20 April 2008...
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Amid the tacit campaign for the coming local election in November, the popularity of Venezuelan President continues to occupy a place in high preferences. However, such position did not prevent the failure to pass...
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Nazi hunters are searching for Aribert Heim a 94 year old former SS medical officer. " Nazi-hunters are now confident that Heim - who was known for his sadism as a doctor at the Nazi's Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria - is seeing out his twilight years near...
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