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What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, Colombia was the Greece of Latin America in the eyes of investors. Young people were desperate to emigrate. The well-off, afraid they’d be kidnapped, avoided traveling between Bogota and Medellin. When they did, it was best to travel the 240 kilometers that separate the two…
Near Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, the Country Brand Index’s highest ranked Latin American country Conducting business meetings isn’t easy when people don’t even know you exist. Just ask Eduardo Clari, an investments specialist. Paraguay’s state export and investment promotion agency. “They confuse us with Uruguay. Or else they think we’re part of Brazil,” says…
Sila Sahin is current poster child of naked dissent Germany’s ongoing struggle with integration, usually carried out with grim zeal and intellectual debates, experienced a surprisingly sensual turn last week. The appearance of Turkish-German actress Sila Sahin’s attractive, naked body in the May issue of Playboy magazine shows how young women with immigrant backgrounds can…
“THAT’S WHAT I THINK IS SO GORGEOUS ABOUT WIKIPEDIA — IT’S THIS LIMITLESS SPACE; IT CAN BE AS BIG AS IT NEEDS TO BE. IT CAN ACTUALLY CONTAIN THE SUM OF EVERYTHING THAT WE KNOW,” SAYS GARDNER. April 2011 Photograph by Robyn Twomey Wikipedia director Sue Gardner has transformed the site’s broken business…
Deadly epidemic taking lives Yanomani forest dwellers
GOD may not be Brazilian, as many of the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro proudly boast, but The Almighty seems to be swinging His or Her not inconsiderable influence towards the Cidade Maravilhosa, the Marvellous City on the South Atlantic ocean, as it pitches strongly for the chance of staging the 2016 Olympic Games. Its…
Ed Stafford proposed becoming the first person to walk the 4,000-mile length of the Amazon from source to sea, he was roundly dismissed. Fixers in Brazil said the experienced trekker would probably die and refused to have anything to do with him. The expedition community said it was too far: that he would get ill…
President Lula can convince increased investment in rural development.
Little hope for US Gulf Coast as example of Guanabara Bay reveals a still devastated area a decade after environmental catastrophe. Gabriel Elizondo: Effects of a Brazilian Oil Spill 10 Years On I wanted to see the effects of an oil spill years later, so I came to Guanabara Bay near Rio de Janeiro. It…