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  • Xi to visit Latin America and the Caribbean

    Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, the foreign ministry announced on Tuesday.Hong Lei, foreign ministry spokesperson, told a press briefing on Tuesday that they will be the first state visits to Latin America and the Caribbean by Xi.Hong said Xi's visit to Trinidad and Tobago will be the first visit to an ...

  • Justice Minister’s statement on children of Haitians draws wide rebuke

    Santo Domingo.- Justice minister Francisco Dominguez's statement published in the media that children of Haitians born in Dominican Republic are Dominican has drawn quick rebuke, staring with Senate president Reinaldo Pared, who via Twitter said "it's not true that those born to mothers who aren't legal residents are Dominicans." Central Electoral Board (JCE) president ...

  • Sporting KC duo Called to Haiti MNT

    Sporting Kansas City defender Mechack Jerome and midfielder Peterson Joseph have been selected to the Haiti Men's National Team, the club announced on Monday. Haiti will play a pair of international friendlies against the last two FIFA World Cup champions with matches against Spain on June 8 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. and against Italy on June 12 at Estadio do Maracana in ...

  • Influence of Haitian Culture Focus of Colloquium in Cuba

    Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The legacy of Haitian culture for contemporary Cuban authors is one of the leading discussions at today's International Symposium on Cultural Diversity in the Caribbean, sponsored by Havana-based Casa de las Americas. Haiti's influence on the works of writers such as Enrique Serpa and Antonio Benitez will be the main topics of lectures by professors from ...

  • Dominican Republic court hands Catholic Church a stunning setback

    Santo Domingo.- A National District court on Monday handed down an unprecedented setback against Dominican Republic's Catholic Church, rejected a restraining order against the family planning organization's (ProFamilia) sex education campaign. Civil Court 5th Chamber judge Eunice Minaya ruled that the NGO's sexual education campaign doesn't violate the fundamental rights of ...


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Almost as soon as it was possible to record motion pictures on flexible celluloid, someone had the idea of using it to record people having sex. Primitive one-reel stag films date back to the very beginnings of the cinema in the 1890s, thus the idea of depicting actual sex acts on film is nothing ... ...

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  • Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America

    Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...

  • Baseball fuels dreams desperation in Dominican Republic

    (Nick Purdon is a current affairs reporter and Leonardo Palleja is a current affairs producer and videographer with CBC's The National. Purdon and Palleja visited the Dominican Republic in late April 2013 to explore the dark side of Dominican baseball. Like many profesional ball teams, the Toronto Blue Jays have a number of stars from the Dominican Republic: Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes, Edwin ...

  • Broward women brought 143 Haitians to S. Fla. for fake jobs feds say

    Haiti with false promises of steady paying jobs in construction or on farms, the hope of getting permanent residency and making a life in the U.S., they said.But when they arrived, they found the jobs didn't exist, and they were left to fend for themselves — the victims of a fraud perpetrated by two Broward women, prosecutors said.The plot was so audacious that one of the women, Jetta ...

  • A Unique and Diverse Caribbean Theme of Colloquium in Havana

    Havana, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Beyond its cultural, historical and linguistic, the Caribbean as a whole has a unitary essence, said today the director of Casa de las Americas, Cuban writer Roberto Fernandez Retamar. During the inauguration of the International Symposium on Cultural Diversity in the Caribbean, Retamar, also essayist indicated that this region has been felt more from the last few ...

  • Dominican Republic 22 Drug Traffickers Arrested

    Santo Domingo, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The Dominican Republic National Police arrested 22 people in the last three days, linked to the drug traffic in the north-western province of Santiago, said press reports Monday. The sources some said the arrested are 18 years old, also firearms, money in cash, stolen vehicles and other items, were confiscated. The Dominican Republic has a favorable ...

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