Word: latinized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...swing through Latin America this week by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has prompted the Obama Administration and U.S. congressional leaders to signal their displeasure with the Iranian leader's regional hosts. President Obama wrote to Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on the eve of the visit, reiterating the U.S. position on Iran's nuclear program, and urging the Brazilian leader to back it. Washington's pique is hardly surprising, since the visit comes at a moment when the U.S. is seeking to rally an international united front to coerce Iran into limiting its nuclear ambitions...
...made it clear he supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has made a point of repudiating all acts of intolerance or terrorism, and has subtly criticized Ahmadinejad's denial of the Holocaust and of homosexuality in Iran. (Read "Brazil's Lula: A Bridge to Latin America's Left...
...Obama believes that what others dismiss as a weakness is actually a strength. As he traveled across four Asian nations in seven days, the President delivered much the same message he has already delivered to 16 other countries in Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East: the U.S. is no longer interested in simply imposing solutions on other nations. It wants to usher in a "new era of engagement with the world based on mutual interests and mutual respect," as Obama said in Tokyo...
...responded positively to the idea. Some 70,000 students visited the Route of Peace last year. And, especially because Washington played such a large role in El Salvador's bloodletting, the site has also become an important educational tool for some U.S. university students. Christopher White, assistant professor of Latin American history at Marshall University in West Virginia, has brought students to El Salvador for the past four years, and says the Route of Peace has had a profound impact on them. "The students become immersed in the civil war, which means that they leave informed about the ability...
...after 18 months of circling, it finally landed: British Airways announced its highly anticipated merger with Iberia late Thursday, coupling BA's access to the U.S. with the Spanish carrier's routes to Latin America in one of the biggest deals in aviation history...