Ambassador to Mexico honored for work strengthening ties (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)

San Antonio-Mexico Friendship Council to gift Amistad Award to U.S. ambassador to Mexico

20 Nov 2008, 12:14 am | click here for more

Guam lawmakers back opposition to the proposed marine monument (Saipan Tribune)

Lawmakers in Guam are opposing the proposal to create a Marianas Trench Marine Monument, saying the federal government is pursuing the issue “without either recognizing the indigenous native classification for descendants of CNMI inhabitants or providing an avenue for Guam's self-determination process.”

19 Nov 2008, 9:08 am | click here for more

Manifestantes piden renuncia de jueces de Corte paraguaya (Miami Herald)

Militantes de las organizaciones civiles Frente Patriótico Popular y Resistencia Popular marcharon el miércoles hasta el palacio de Justicia y demandaron la renuncia de ocho de los nueve miembros de la Corte Suprema de Justicia.

19 Nov 2008, 8:32 am | click here for more

Lugo realiza primer cambio en cúpula militar paraguaya (Miami Herald)

El presidente Fernando Lugo relevó el miércoles al general Bernardino Soto de la jefatura de las fuerzas militares y nombró en su reemplazo al contralmirante Cíbar Benítez en la primera designación castrense del gobernante, que calificó la medida como "un acto normal y natural en la vida institucional".

19 Nov 2008, 7:47 am | click here for more

Obituaries: Nov. 19, 2008 Contreras, Fujita, Bautista, Powell, Atkins (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

Pedro Contreras Services are Nov. 20 for Pedro Contreras, who died Nov. 13 at Watsonville Community Hospital.

19 Nov 2008, 4:55 am | click here for more

Gisikop kay suspek sa kawat (Sun Star)

TAGUM CITY -- Usa ka lalaki ang gisikop human gireklamong nangawat sulod sa usa ka videokehan sa Tagum Overland Transport Integrated Terminal (TOTIT) sa dakbayan sa Tagum, Martes sa gabii.

19 Nov 2008, 4:47 am | click here for more

Regiion briefs -- 11/19 (The Press-Enterprise)

An Upland man who escaped from a prison in Blythe was recaptured Monday morning outside Los Angeles. Stephen Gumpert, 36, of Upland was arrested during a traffic cease in Monterey Park after he escaped from Chuckawalla Valley State Prison on Thursday.

19 Nov 2008, 2:15 am | click here for more

Paraguayos marchan para exigir uso de reservas monetarias (Miami Herald)

Unos mil adherentes de organizaciones civiles aglutinadas en el Frente Patriótico y Popular, y Resistencia Popular, marcharon el martes por las calles de esta capital para reclamar al gobierno la utilización de parte de las reservas internacionales del Banco Central para financiar proyectos sociales.

18 Nov 2008, 8:02 am | click here for more

Collier County Police Briefs: Nov. 16, 2008 (Naples Daily News)

17 Nov 2008, 11:57 am | click here for more

That Was Then... This Is Now - Asuncion, Paraguay (Financial Times)

The people of Asuncion ... are violently chauvinist, but not xenophobic: foreigners are liked. They have a stolid inflexibility like Finns or Turks, but are capable of fierce excesses of sudden wrath. Almost every are decent, frugal, humble, honest, clean; motorists seldom bother to lock their cars.

15 Nov 2008, 9:21 pm | click here for more