Panama Noriega wants to know how come Chavez is still in power and he cant even get a good cup of coffee

Noriega wants to know how come Chavez is still in power and he cant even get a good cup of coffee

Venezuela Slams Arizona Chaves says when I smoke enough Cocaine I become a GOD

Venezuela Slams Arizona’s Illegal Immigration Law, Says America Must Overcome ‘Old Habits of Racism’
By Edwin Mora

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (AP Photo)(CNSNews.com) – Venezuela's minister of foreign affairs said the country’s socialist president, Hugo Chavez, is demanding that Arizona’s law against illegal immigration be “repealed” and that America turn away from its “old habits of racism.”

Not only does Chavez oppose the Arizona law, but Venezuela as a nation wants the United States to “begin to respect and overcome its old habits of racism and contempt" for people from Latin America, Venezuela's information ministry quoted Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro as saying.

Immigrants in the United States, according to Maduro, are treated in a way that is “inconsistent with human rights … a perennial violation against our fellow Latin Americans.”

He said the Arizona law against illegal immigration must be repealed because the measure is disrespectful to human beings "who have only gone to the nation to work to generate wealth."

Maduro made the remarks on May 3 from Buenos Aires, Argentina, before attending a meeting of the 12-member Union of South American Nations. The union as a whole also denounced the Arizona law, calling it racist.

Arizona’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed the legislation (the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, Arizona SB 1070) into law on Apr. 23.

The new state law mirrors existing federal law against illegal immigration. It gives Arizona police officers the authority during a lawful stop to check an individual’s immigration status. Federal law already requires that immigrants carry documentation of their status.

If a person were pulled over for speeding, for example, a police officer could demand that the driver show his driver’s license and, if the officer suspects the driver is an illegal immigrant, he could order that person to show proof of his immigration status.

According to one of the drafters of the law, Kris Kobach, a constitutional law professor at the University of Missouri who served as chief adviser to former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on immigration law and border security, the Arizona law prohibits racial profiling.




Attorney General Eric Holder. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)Section II of the new law states that a law enforcement officer “may not consider race, color or national origin” in making any stops or determining any alien’s immigration status,” said Kobach at a May 5 press conference.

Nevertheless, the Obama administration reportedly plans to challenge the Arizona law.

On ABC’s “This Week” on May 9, Attorney General Eric Holder said that because of the Arizona law, "we could potentially get on a slippery slope where people will be picked on because of how they look as opposed to what they have done."

The Justice Department is "considering all of our options," said Holder, including a lawsuit either on the grounds that the Arizona law pre-empts federal powers or is a “violation of federal civil rights statutes.”

On Apr. 23, President Obama said the law was “misguided,” adding that it could potentially violate a person’s civil rights.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano agreed with President Obama that the law is “misguided.” She also said its enforcement would stretch federal resources.

On the Apr. 26 edition of ABC "World News," Napolitano said, “That one is a misguided law. It's not a good law enforcement law. It's not a good law in any number of reasons."

On Apr. 25, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who represents a district that includes 300 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border, said, "We're going to overturn this unjust and racist law, and then we're going to overturn the power structure that created this unjust, racist law.”

Brazil council of bishops to prepare guidelines on how to combat child abuse by priests

Brazil council of bishops to prepare guidelines on how to combat child abuse by priests

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Roman Catholicism
Brazil
Child Abuse

Associated Press Writer

SAO PAULO (AP) — The National Conference of Brazilian Bishops said Tuesday it will prepare a manual with guidelines to help bishops combat cases of child abuse committed by clergymen in the world's largest Roman Catholic country.

The manual will be prepared by a special commission comprising bishops, priests and psychologists, and church officials will begin distributing it within a few months, a conference spokesman, the Rev. Geraldo Martins, told The Associated Press.

Martins would not comment on the likely contents of the manual, one of several ideas to emerge at the bishops' annual meeting in the Brazilian capital, Brasilia.

Bishop Sinesio Bohn of the southern city of Santa Cruz do Sul was quoted by the newspaper Estado de S. Paulo on Tuesday as saying the church must study ways to avoid ordaining pedophiles.

"We must adopt scientific methods, with the help of psychologists," Bohn said.

Bishop Pedro Luiz Stringhini, from the city of Franca in Sao Paulo state, told the newspaper that child abuse committed by clergymen must receive a three-pronged treatment: "forgiveness for the sin, punishment for the crime and treatment for the pathology."

Several cases of priests allegedly abusing children have surfaced in Brazil in recent months.

Late last month, prosecutors charged a Roman Catholic priest, Father Jose Afonso, with abusing altar boys ranging from ages 12 to 16. Prosecutors said the alleged abuses occurred this year, in 2009 and in 2001 in Franca.

Also last month, 83-year-old Monsignor Luiz Marques Barbosa was detained in northeastern Brazil for allegedly abusing at least three boys after being caught on videotape having sex with a young man, a former altar boy. Barbosa is under house arrest while authorities investigate. Two other priests in the same archdiocese are also accused of abuses.

Last week, a Brazilian archbishop said adolescents are "spontaneously homosexual" and in need of guidance.

The newspaper O Globo quoted Archbishop Dadeus Grings of Porto Alegre as saying: "Society today is pedophile. That is the problem. So, people easily fall into it. And the fact it is denounced is a good sign."

Venezuela inflation rate hits 30%; highest in Latin America

Venezuela inflation rate hits 30%; highest in Latin America

By Manuel Diaz, AP

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks to diplomats Wednesday in the Dominican Republic.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's annual inflation rate has surpassed 30% after consumer prices surged in April.
The Central Bank and National Statistics Institute on Friday reported a 5.2% increase in consumer prices during April, driving up the annual rate to 30.4%.

President Hugo Chavez's government has been struggling against the highest inflation rate in Latin America and a weakening economy in general.

Prices increased 11.3% from January to April, up from 6.7% inflation in the same 2009 period.

Venezuela's economy shrank by 3.3% last year amid a downturn in its all-important oil industry. It's the nation's first recession since 2003.

The country imports most of its food, and Chavez on Friday announced the government will create an import-export corporation aiming to break with the private sector's "hegemony." It wasn't immediately clear how the new state entity would operate.

Chavez said wealthy Venezuelans involved in the import business "buy abroad, come here and ask for more than it really costs."

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The diet of more than 800 million people revolves around neither wheat, nor corn, nor rice. Instead in many countries the main staple consists of the starchy roots of a plant variously called cassava, tapioca, manioc or yuca (not to be confused with the succulent plant yucca). Indeed, cassava contributes more to the world’s calorie budget than any other food except rice and wheat, which makes it a virtually irreplaceable resource against hunger. Throughout the tropics, families typically cultivate it for their own consumption on small parcels of land, although in Asia and in parts of Latin America the plant is also grown commercially for use in animal feed and starch-based products. The root’s nutritional value, however, is poor: it contains little protein, vitamins or other nutrients such as iron. Better varieties of cassava could thus effectively alleviate malnutrition in much of the developing world.



Because of that promise, the two of us and our colleagues at the University of Brasilia and others are devoted to creating hardier, more productive and more nutritious varieties and making them widely available to farmers in developing countries. Our team focuses largely on applying traditional breeding techniques to form hybrids between cassava and its wild relatives, taking advantage of traits that have evolved in the wild plants over millions of years. This approach is less costly than genetic engineering and does not raise the safety concerns that make some people wary of genetically modified crops. Meanwhile researchers and nonprofit organizations in the developed world have begun to take an interest and have produced genetically modified cassava varieties for the same purposes. The recent completion of a draft genome sequencing of cassava may open the way to further improvements.