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The U.S. media company American Express payment of $ 4.057 million won (3.35 dollars per share) in 2010, which is almost twice the cumulative profit of 2,130 million in 2009.

After the close of the New York Stock Exchange, the company reported today that only in the fourth quarter of 2010 was able to increase its net profit by 48% over the same period last year to reach $ 1,062 million (88 cents per share .) Read the rest of this entry »

The Spain Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has today sent a telegram to U.S. President, Barack Obama, in which he moves his revulsion at the attack in Tucson (Arizona) against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and have At least five people dead. Read the rest of this entry »

Dilma Rousseff today made history by become the first female president of Brazil, replacing the popular Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the promise of continuing his legacy, especially in the fight against poverty that eats a million people in the country.

Rousseff, an economist with 63 years affiliated with the Workers’ Party (PT), which grew in the shadow of Lula, his political godfather, was inaugurated as president for the period 2011-2014, a post he occupied until now had only 39 men in a ceremony held in the full House of Representatives. Read the rest of this entry »

The earthquake in Haiti, which struck in January and the release of the Chilean miners trapped 700 feet deep were the ten most important news of the year, according to CNN.

The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 caused more than 250,000 dead, 300,000 wounded and untold damage in the poorest country in the Americas, to which months later joined the cholera outbreak that has caused 2,500 deaths. Read the rest of this entry »

Filtration of diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks has damaged U.S. foreign relations, changing the modus operandi of individuals and governments and provide information to their enemies, today recognized the Pentagon and the State Department.

“For some time, diplomatic relations will be more complicated,” said State Department spokesman, PJ Crowley, in a meeting with foreign press. Read the rest of this entry »

The White House maintains a criminal investigation to clarify the responsibilities of filtering WikiLeaks

Washington fears reprisals. The U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, has assumed that the disclosure of Wikileaks over classified documents of American diplomacy “endanger our relations with important allies in the world.” Read the rest of this entry »

The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, warned that any de facto government in South America will be subjected to isolation after coming into force of the protocol of the democratic clause of UNASUR.

“Attempted coup attempt came to power by a de facto government and know that you’ll be faced with total ostracism of the region,” Bush said.

Correa issued the warning at a press conference with his Guyanese counterpart, Bharrat Jagdeo, in which both talked about what was agreed at the Fourth Summit of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), which concluded today in Georgetown.

The protocol of the democracy clause was approved today by 8 of the 12 presidents of the member countries of UNASUR, after being prepared by their foreign ministers on Thursday.

Indigenous peoples from 12 countries have called for a continental mobilization on June 21, 2011 in defense of life and the full exercise of their rights under the impact of mining, according to a statement released today in Lima.

About a hundred indigenous leaders from Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru and South Africa also agreed to provide a continental platform of struggle against mining policy, to which opposed to cause pollution in the territory they occupy. Read the rest of this entry »

Western countries begin early next year abandonment of Afghanistan in a withdrawal that will take about three years. And will end with a resounding failure from the strategic standpoint, the policy has not been able to ever win this war, tactical and military troops arrived with a great lack of land and a surprising ignorance of history – and loss of human lives since the conflict has killed tens of thousands of civilians. The balance of the war launched by the United States in 2001 under the pompous name of Operation Enduring Freedom with the backing of the United Nations, and that was to find Osama bin Laden, today is not satisfactory to anyone, and little has served that NATO took over in 2003 and tried to give an image of a multinational force in the conflict. Long ago that Western societies no longer believe in the invasion of Afghanistan and began to wonder how it was possible to gain positions away from just the opposite happened.

Today the situation is quite alarming, as tribal leaders have come to completely dominate the area, as there is a territory that can be considered absolute total control of NATO. Even the capital, Kabul, has never been a city under the authority minimally West. The home, although the formula view of new destinations for the troops, it will be a release for all governments that have staff in the area. In Spain, where like so little to talk about international politics if not to stop fighting the two major parties, the contribution has killed nearly a hundred people. Many like to do a reflection.