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Hurricane Norbert nears Mexico's Baja California
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:39:00 -0700
Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches today as Hurricane Norbert strengthened to a Category 2 storm and bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California Peninsula.
U.S. net work tunes out Cuba, 6-1
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
The Americans sweep into the final round of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup with a dominating victory at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C. The U.S. national soccer team swept into the final round of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa on Saturday with a 6-1 demolition of Cuba at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C.
Richard Stephen Heyser dies at 81; spy plane pilot took first photos of Cuban missile launch sites in 1962
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Richard Stephen Heyser, a U-2 spy plane pilot who took the first photos of ballistic missile launch sites during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, died Monday at a nursing home in Port St. Joe, Fla. He was 81.
Hundreds flee Baja as Norbert barrels through
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
It hits Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane, uprooting trees, taking off roofs and bringing knee-high water. Hurricane Norbert swept across Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula on Saturday, tearing off roofs and forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded homes.
'Here at the End of the World We Learn to Dance' by Lloyd Jones
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
A cross-cultural tango pulses with life between the shores of New Zealand and Argentina. ACENTURY ago, Katherine Mansfield was beginning a distinguished literary career that would lead to her becoming New Zealand's best-known literary figure. By the time she died in her mid-30s in 1923, her stories had captured her nation's life in luminous, evocative prose. But Mansfield wrote these stories in Europe, for she had left her native land as a young woman, eager to escape what she saw as a parochial backwater. It took distance and homesickness for a place she was never to see again to so artfully bring alive the particular texture of that antipodean world.
Peru's Cabinet resigns amid bribery scandal
Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo and 14 others quit over allegations that bribes were solicited from a European firm in exchange for energy contracts. Peruvian President Alan Garcia accepted the resignation of his entire Cabinet on Friday amid a sweeping bribery scandal that has rocked the government of a major U.S. ally.

UN News Centre - Americas

Haiti in desperate need of socio-economic development, stresses UN envoy
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500
The recovery and humanitarian relief efforts in Haiti - an impoverished country devastated recently by four successive storms in as many weeks - will not succeed unless the international community addresses the nation's social and economic crisis, a senior United Nations official stressed today.
World Bank donates $25 million to help rebuild beleaguered Haiti
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500
The World Bank today announced $25 million in additional emergency grants for Haiti to support recovery and rebuilding efforts, and strengthen its capacity to cope with natural disasters, in the wake of a devastating series of storms that hit the Caribbean country.
Drug-related crime biggest threat to public safety in the Americas, warns UN
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Drug trafficking and the violence committed by its associated organized crime is the biggest threat to public safety in the Americas, according to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

 

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Douglas Weller - Margarita Island Real Estate - Vacation properties for rent and sale. Includes description and pictures.
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Holiday Margarita - Offers a guide with general information, tourist circuits and hotels.
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Hotel Plaza Royal Margarita - Their location allows you to enjoy the beaches of white sands. Two huge towers, one with fourteen stories and the other one with twelve stories, communicate with each other by panoramic hallways that offer wide views.
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Isla Margarita - Offers Information, photos, accommodation, real estate, tours, scuba diving, Los Roques, Canaima.
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Isla Margarita travel guide - A photo gallery and resources about hotels, tours, excursions, restaurants, real state guide, bulletin board forum and postcards.
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LTI Costa Caribe Beach Hotel - Country typical hotel complex surrounded by gardens directly at a large sandy Beach on Margarita Island.
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Margarita - Information on the island, tourism, and accommodation.
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Margarita Island - General information on Margarita Island and Venezuela. Hotel guide and reservation.
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Margarita Island Guide - Guide to information and resources for those travelling to the island and surrounding areas, from Walter's Tours.
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Playa El Agua - A collection of photos and information on the 3 mile long beach along with its services, restaurants and attractions.
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Posada El Caney - Rustic hostel accommodation. Rates, surrounding area details, map, and images included. (Juan Griego)
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Posadas de Margarita - Information about inns and guesthouses in Margarita Island, includes description, photos and rates.

Villa Cabo Blanco - Offers hotel reservations, general info, map, photo gallery and tours.
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Villas Ixora - Family-friendly condos in El Yaque for rent.
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Windfind Ventures - Information on windsurfing and kiteboarding vacations. Site includes a complete island guide and information on accommodations.