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Vision of Martin Luther King is not complete, says Obama

The U.S. president said the “dream” seems even more elusive than 50 years ago, it warned of the continuing racial gap especially when it comes to distributing wealth. “The shadow of poverty casts a shadow over our youth” in many communities across the...
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Alexis Mera: to criminalize libel on social networks, but not media lynching

“It should be an administrative penalty (…) such conduct should not be punished as a crime,” said legal secretary of the Presidency of the Republic, regarding the criminalization of media lynching conceived in the Communications Law. “I have proposed to...
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High rate of informal work in Latin America

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), Latin America (especially Honduras, Peru and Paraguay) has a current unemployment rate of 6.4%, with 267 million workers, of whom 127 million are informal. Elizabeth Tinoco, ILO regional director, said that the number of...
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Peasants march in order to maintain their social security

The morning of Wednesday, August 28, hundreds of peasants affiliated to the Rural Social Security marched through the streets of Guayaquil to request that the system remains independent of the Ministry of Public Health and reject the introduction of certain reforms. The president...
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Obama says there is no decision of intervention in Syria

Barack Obama, the U.S. president, said yesterday that no decision has been made regardin a military intervention in Syria, but that the objective of a limited action would be to stop any future use of chemical weapons. “Yes we say it in a clear and firm, but limited, send a...
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