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...Presencia Latina” will include what Pineda calls “as large a variety as possible.” The evening performance will include a food festival with dishes hailing from several different countries, including Mexico, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Peru. Opening with a poetry reading, the show will feature a wide spectrum of dances ranging from samba and reggaeton to salsa and hip hop, as well as a performance by Mariachi Veritas, who have taken part in “Presencia Latina” in the past. A local children?...
...growing number of sources. For example, the David Rockefeller Center (DRCLAS) alone is providing support to a total of 128 College students traveling to Latin America this summer. A record number of 65 students will participate in the new DRCLAS internship programs in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, and Peru; 34 students will take advantage of internship and study opportunities that DRCLAS helped them to arrange in other countries of the region, and 29 College students will receive DRCLAS grants for honors thesis research in Latin America. DRCLAS is also providing summer research and internship grants to 43 graduate and professional...
...research but summer internships as well, which are available to all students, not just juniors. The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS), in addition to awarding grants for students who organize independent internships, also runs its own internship program, placing students with organizations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Mexico. DRCLAS Student Services Coordinator Sebastian J. Sanchez ’04 said that the Office of Career Services has provided additional funds to DRCLAS so that awards that cover airfare could be given to students eligible for financial aid. Sanchez said that DRCLAS did not receive more...
...estimates that China?s demand will more than double, to 14.2 million barrels of oil per day, and its imports will more than triple, to 10.7 million barrels per day. Even though China is aggressively diversifying its sources of supply, DOE says, by investing in Kazakhstan, Venezuela, Sudan, Iraq, Peru, Azerbaijan, Sudan and Indonesia, Iran is still likely to figure as one of its most dependable suppliers...
Some have said thatOpus' true secret isits clout in international politics. Poland's new conservative regime includes an Opus minister and several Opus officials, according to one of the group's Warsaw directors; membership there is rumored to be a political stepping-stone. In Peru, Juan Luis Cardinal Cipriani, the church's first openly Opus Dei Cardinal, was seen as having sanctioned antiterrorist excesses by the regime of former President Alberto Fujimori; he scoffed at the accusations, writing that most human-rights groups were "fronts for Marxist and Maoist political movements...