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World:  Latin America

Mexican author pooh-poohs '2012' movie

Nov 20, 2009 | Martin Barillas

Number of poor in Latin America to rise by 9 million this year, says UN report

Nov 19, 2009 | UN News
Nine million more people in Latin America will fall into poverty this year due to the global economic crisis, bringing the total number of poor in the region to 189 million, or 34 per cent of the population, according to a United Nations report released today.

Immigrants threatened in Mexico; Church responds

Nov 9, 2009 | Spero News
Catholic bishops in Mexico, worried about threats and intimidation of immigrants in Coahuila, made and appeal to the authorities of the Mexican state. Human rights abuses alleged.

Saint Death Cult Draws On Pre-Christian Roots

Oct 31, 2009 | Martin Barillas
The growing cult of "Saint Death" among "unaffiliated" persons finds many of its characteristics date to Pre-Christian times in the Americas
"I do not understand what good they think Bibles will do. The Evangelicals have Bibles. But more to the point, poor, rural Guatemalans are Maya and speak 28 different languages. Particularly in the rural North, only a few men speak Spanish. And the literacy rate is ..."
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