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Lost City of Gold may have been found deep in Honduras rain forest
Washington, May 16 : A possible lost city could be hidden in Honduran rain forests, which might be the building foundations and mounds of Ciudad Blanca, a never-confirmed legendary metropolis, new images ...
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Lost Gold city legendary El Dorado in Central America undercovered Latin America News
A 3D mapping technique called lidar has shown what appear to be ruins, including roads and building foundations, in the Mosquitia region. It is in an area believed by some to be home to The White City, which according to legend is a now-buried metropolis full of ...
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Lost City of Gold may have been found deep in Honduras rain forest
A possible lost city could be hidden in Honduran rain forests, which might be the building foundations and mounds of Ciudad Blanca, a never-confirmed legendary metropolis, new images reveal. Archaeologists and filmmakers Steven Elkins and Bill Benenson announced last year that they had discovered possible ruins in Honduras' Mosquitia region using lidar, or light detection and ranging. ...
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VIDEO: Pope-themed bus tours hit Argentina
Fans of the new Pontiff are being offered the chance to learn more about his childhood with organised Pope-themed bus tours of his home town in Buenos Aires.
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Costa Rica spokesman resigns amid Chinchilla flight scandal
SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica's communications chief resigned on Wednesday amid a scandal engulfing President Laura Chinchilla, saying he failed to properly screen a man who arranged for her to use a private jet and is under suspicion of using a false identity. The attorney general's office is now investigating flights Chinchilla made to Peru and to Caracas for the funeral of late ...
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Costa Rica’s communications minister resigns after presidential flight tied to businessman with suspected drug cartel links
Francisco Chacn announced his resignation Wednesday evening after an investigation by a local news organization discovered the plane President Laura Chinchilla used to fly to Peru over the weekend was owned by a man with suspected ties to drug ...
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Obama fires head of U.S. tax agency over scandal
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the Internal Revenue Service scandal in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Saul ...
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Nicaragua extradites US man in $137M fraud case - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Nicaraguan authorities deported a U.S. man on Wednesday to face fraud and money laundering charges in his home country. Interior Minister Ana Morales said Lawrence Hartman was sent to Florida, where he was expected to appear in court Thursday. The 47-year-old lawyer was detained April 25 when he tried to get a Nicaraguan passport using a fraudulent birth certificate, ...
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Pregnant Salvadoran woman Beatriz seeks life-saving abortion in El Salvador
The pregnant woman has lupus and doctors say her baby has anencephaly, a total or partial absence of the brain and the skull. Source: Quest Newspapers A pregnant, chronically ill Salvadoran woman testified before the Supreme Court to urge the justices to allow her to proceed with an an abortion that could save her life. Abortions are strictly forbidden in El Salvador, where the sentence for ...
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Nicaragua extradites US man wanted in Florida as part of alleged $137 million stock fraud
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaraguan authorities say they have deported a U.S. man wanted for fraud and money laundering in his home country. Interior Minister Ana Morales says Lawrence Hartman was deported to Florida on Wednesday. She says the 47-year-old lawyer was detained April 25 when he tried to get a Nicaraguan passport using a fraudulent birth certificate. U.S. prosecutors say Hartman is ...
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Mexico sacks 'power abuse' official
Mexico's president sacks an official over an incident caused by his daughter last month, in a case of abuse of power that has trended on Twitter.
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U.S. technology firm Ingram Micro opens new facility in Costa Rica
Ingram Micro Inc., the world's largest wholesale technology distributor, on Wednesday opened a new repair facility in Santa Ana, southwest of San Jos.The facility employs 300 people and will be fully dedicated to supporting the company's mobile device lifecycle services, "specifically repair, recovery and recycling," the firm said in a press release. The jobs number could ...
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Nicaragua extradites US man in $137M fraud case
U.S. prosecutors say Hartman is one of seven people charged in Tampa, Florida, with operating an investment fraud scheme that bilked investors out of at least $137 ...
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El Salvador court hears arguments in abortion case - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois Missouri News Sports
By MARCOS ALEMANAssociated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - El Salvador's Supreme Court heard opening arguments Wednesday in a landmark abortion case in which a woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus has not been allowed to terminate a pregnancy in which the fetus is given no chance of surviving. The Central American country's laws prohibit all abortions, even when a ...
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U.S. Justice Department accuses Apple of conspiring to raise E-book sales
The Justice Department accused Apple executives, including its late chief executive Steve Jobs, of leading a conspiracy that raised e-book prices in an attempt to hurt Amazon. Courtesy of ...
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Libertarian lawmaker files criminal complaint against President Chinchilla over Peru trip
President Chinchilla meet for 45 minutes with Peru's Ollanta Humala on Monday to talk about trade, security and investment. Courtesy of Foreign ...
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Landmark abortion case before El Salvador court
El Salvador's Supreme Court has heard opening arguments in a landmark abortion case in which a woman suffering from kidney failure and lupus has not been allowed to terminate a pregnancy in which the foetus is given no chance of surviving. The Central American country's laws prohibit all abortions, even when a woman's health is at risk. At present, the woman and any doctor who ...
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Belize calls for prosecutions in Mayan pyramid gutting
Belize Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega said those responsible for the gutting of the Mayan pyramid for a road project must be prosecuted 'to the full extent of the ...
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Spear-Wielding Warriors Take on Land Invaders in Nicaragua
Nicaragua 's Bosaws Biosphere Reserve--the western hemisphere's second largest rainforest--a group of Mayangna indigenous warriors wielding spears, bows, snakes and reputed magical powers are being ordered to stand down after two weeks of preparing for battle against encroaching land invaders. Leaders of the Mayangna Nation, the traditional guardians of the Bosaws, say they're ...
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Justice in Guatemala vital for preventing recurrence of heinous crimes say UN experts
Print 15 May 2013 &#150 Establishing truth and justice in Guatemala is essential to ensuring that heinous crimes such as arbitrary executions, rape and forced displacement – committed during the country’s civil war – do not take place again and to ending impunity, a group of independent United Nations experts said today. ';Justice is the best guarantee to prevent the ...
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