Yearly Archives: 2015

QCOSTARICA - The government's plan to eliminate subsidies on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), also referred to as simply propane,  will affect one in three Costa Rica households. The fuel in Costa Rica is used in kitchens in more than 451.300 (33%) of the 1.3 million households (based on the 2011...

LATIN AMERICA (IPS) - Karina Núñez Rodríguez was only 12 when she was forced into prostitution. Now age 50 and a mother of six, she is an outspoken fighter against sexual exploitation of children and teenagers in Uruguay, a country reluctant to recognise this growing scourge. Her mother’s surname, Rodríguez,...

LATIN AMERICA (IPS) - The controversial low-brow Hollywood comedy, ‘The Interview’, portrays the story of two U.S. talk-show journalists on assignment to interview Kim Jong-un – and midway down the road are recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to poison the North Korean leader. The plot, which has enraged...