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While feminism faces such stereotypes everywhere, the term is particularly negative in Latin America, which has never experienced a strong feminist movement, said Cristina A. Herndon...
...threaten to cut off more than $200 million in total aid to the country and moved cold warriors like former U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North to fly to Managua to campaign against him. The U.S. is concerned that Ortega will become another boisterously anti-American voice of Latin America's new left, which is led by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her advisory committee on democracy promotion last week, Richard Soudriette, president of the Washington-based International Foundation for Election Systems, volunteered that he had just returned from Nicaragua. "Coming from...
...import from China as from southern Mexico. And although a Mexican wage earner is paid three times as much as his Chinese counterpart, high domestic prices undercut, and nearly level out, his purchasing power. (Conversely, high domestic prices also push up those wages, further undermining Mexican firms' competitiveness.) "For Latin America, China is an incredible opportunity as a driver of commodity prices, but for Mexico it is strong competition," says Sergio Kurczyn, an economist with Banamex, owned by Citigroup. "If I am not optimistic about structural reform, I can't be optimistic about competing with China...
...Monterrey's entrepreneurial spirit may prove critical for the country. It is at the hub of Mexico's most ambitious push to forge government, business and university partnerships that can generate new companies, based not on natural resources but on cutting-edge technologies. The city's "Monterrey Tech"--perhaps Latin America's premier business and engineering school--is a central link in this effort, which is supported by $1 billion of annual federal spending on scientific and technological research and focused on building up Ciudad del Conocimiento (Knowledge City), mandated to germinate new business clusters in biotechnology and information technologies...
Outfitted in yellow and silver lamé dresses topped with white feather boas and matching dyed wigs, leaders of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) invaded Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) with a gift in hand: a check...