World travel and challenges highlight Muscatine native's career Oct 13, 2009
She received her master s degree in Latin American studies from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. in 1965. She taught high school social studies and English for several years. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
• Events calendar Apr 17, 2009
Latin American Film Night, Noche de Cine Latino, at 7 p.m. in Room 106 at College of Southern Idaho's Canyon building. Presented by CSI's Department of English, Languages and Philosophy. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
That letter from your broker ... Mar 4, 2009
At least the Bank of Montreal's TV spots acknowledged its clients are panicky - one featured tourists shopping for "really big" worry dolls in a Latin American flea market to cope with the meltdown. Yet, even this spot concluded with a trite sales pitch: "How do you stop worrying about your RSP? By making sense of it." I don't think so. (Globe and Mail)
Meandering Magazine Street in New Orleans is a boutique row Feb 20, 2009
A standout newcomer is Baru (504-895-2225), a Latin American restaurant that opened in 2007 at what was once Jennie s Grocery, a beer-and-cigarettes corner store. On the sidewalk, where out-of-work men once sat on overturned buckets drinking tallboys, diners share plates of empanadas and tuna tartare, their faces lit by tiki torches. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Billionaire's bank customers denied their deposits Feb 19, 2009
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua Panicky depositors were turned away from Stanford International Bank and some of its Latin American affiliates Wednesday, unable to withdraw their money after U.S. regulators accused Texas financier R. Allen Stanford of perpetrating an $8 billion fraud against his companies' investors. Some customers arrived in Antigua by private jet and were driven up the lushly landscaped driveway of the bank's headquarters, only to be told that all assets have been frozen pending an... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
