The Mexican Airline, Mexicana de Aviación, was reported with delays in ElDorado International Airport of Bogotá today affecting more than 200 passengers that are waiting to travel to Mexico and Canada. Speaking to Caracol Radio, some passengers said that they came early morning to the airport to take their flights, but the officials of the airline told them that there were not place for them and they must return the day after and probably they will get their plane. Especially those who were going to Canada are more in trouble, because they were going to do connections in Mexico with other airlines. Officials of the airline were not available for the press.
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The Parliament of Catalonia decreed a prohibition to bullfighting in the northeast of Spain that will be enforced after January 1rst, 2012. The project of law was known as the Popular Legislative Initiative and was presented by 180 thousand citizens asking the definite suspension of bullfighting in the Catalonia region, an activity that is considered for many as a Hispanic tradition not only in Spain but in most Hispanic American countries like Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela. Ecuador and Peru. The congressmen voted 68 in favor of the prohibition, 55 against and 9 abstentions.
Latin America could grow more than 4.1 percent this year, said Alicia Barcenas, executive secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) in a report of AmericaEconomia last weekend over the World Economic Forum in Cartagena de Indias.
Barcena said that it can be predicted thanks to the good results of Mexico and the maintenance of good fiscal and monetary stimuli.
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The best schools of economy in Latin America are in Argentina, according with the research of AmericaEconomía.
The 2009 ranking of the best schools of economy in the region measured three dimensions: actions in the support of social labor, the size in the number of graduates and the professional success reached by its more outstanding past pupils.
IAE-Universidad Austral of Buenos Aires, the best high ranking school of economy in Latin America, according with AméricaEconomía Magazine. Photo official site of the University.
The Costa Rican National Theater. Photo Andrés Alvarez.
According with a recent study of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Costa Rica was perceived as the best place to live in Latin American and the Caribbeans. It has the best standard of life, economical situation, and the best national system of health and education, according with its own people. The results, published also by AmericaEconomía magazine, was a research made among persons from 23 Latin American nations.
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The Farc guerrillas made one of the biggest cartels of drug trafficking of the world, said president Álvaro Uribe in a meeting with the presidents of Panama, Guatemala and Mexico to discuss agreements to fight organized crime in the region.
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Excommunication, a term with a strict Catholic relation, means a decision of the leaders of any religion to expel from its community any member or group that do not respect the doctrines or make actions against the morality of that religious system. During the Middle Age, excommunication was particularly used against writers and thinkers in Europe. The Inquisition, by its part, brought many of them to fire.
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Even if countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru have presented big programs to cushion the world recession, it will not be enough to the strong 2009 effects on the regional economies, suggested Standard & Poor’s (S&P).
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The study of Corporate America, published in July 2008 by AméricaEconomía, shows the ten best country for investment and Mexico as the thirs most favorable country for that after China and India. The two Asian countries have had a fast economic growing that make them ideal for world investores, while Mexico is at the third position thanks to its proximity with USA, the cheap cost and quality of its manwork and a welcoming and kind economy.
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This is the updated rank of countries by happiness of the Gallup World Poll published by Forbes for the period 2005 – 2009. Forbes said that it corresponds to 155 countries between 2005 and 2009 and it concludes seriously that quantifying happiness isn’t an easy task. We are completely agree and more that we are more suspicious of it with the results that changed so dramatically from the 2007 to the 2010 results. In the 1995 – 2007 World Values Surveys, as an example, Colombia ranked 3rd world happiest country, but in this result it failed to 26th! Now the Gallup researchers were carefully trained to put at the top of happiness the richest nations: ‘The Scandinavian countries do really well,’ says Forbes citing Jim Harter, a chief scientist at Gallup, which developed the poll.
Photo ‘Cheers’ by See-ming Lee from New York, NY, USA
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