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AOA 2025: Optometry and visual impairment in Latin America
Optometry Times
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July 8, 2025
Amid a vision crisis, Latin America is in a position that warrants a serious commitment to a call to action for standardizing and improving eye care across the region, according to Carlos Chacon, MSc OD, FIACLE. In his Optometry’s Meeting 2025...
Trump issues executive order codifying surcharge on international parks visitors
KULR 8 - Montana
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July 4, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday to increase entrance fees for international visitors to national parks — an idea hatched by the Bozeman-based Property and Environment Research Center. The order directs the...
Alex Gimarc: Sustainable aquaculture in Alaska?
Must Read Alaska
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July 8, 2025
By ALEX GIMARC I received a heads up last week from Craig Medred, announcing a World Bank publication that spoke in glowing terms about the role aquaculture is going to play in feeding a growing worldwide population. It predicts as many as 22...
How El Salvador Is Elevating Women in International Diplomacy.
El Salvador in English
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July 3, 2025
To commemorate the International Day of Women in Diplomacy on June 24, El Salvador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its Diplomatic Institute “Dr. José Gustavo Guerrero,” held a forum titled “Breaking Barriers: Voices of Women Diplomats...
ICE Actions Hit Home with Jailing of Tribeca Waiter with a 'Golden Heart'
The Tribeca Trib
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A hallway of the IAH Secure Adult Detention Facility in Livingston, Texas, where Luis Fernandez (inset) is being held. Photos: Screenshot of facility from video by MTC Management & Training Corp.; Fernandez by Donna Ferrato For seven years, until...
In Ecuador’s Rainforest, Women Gather to Defend the Amazon With Law—and Sisterhood
LatinAmerican Post
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July 3, 2025
Forty Indigenous leaders, lawyers, and organizers journeyed deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon last week, not for protest or spectacle, but to build a transnational legal shield. Their message from Sarayaku was urgent and straightforward: only...
'It's a joke': Peruvians outraged after president doubles her salary
WTVB - Michigan
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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Dina Boluarte will double her salary to the equivalent of some $10,000 per month, angering many Peruvians who said the money would be better spent on alleviating poverty. The economy minister...
Panama president seeks support for vital Río Indio water project
United Press International (UPI)
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People work on reconditioning and preventive maintenance in a dry chamber at the Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama Canal in Panama City, Panama, in May. File Photo by Bienvenido Velasco/EPA-EFE July 3 (UPI) -- Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino...
Plots thicken for President Petro in region’s political hothouse
The Bogota Post
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July 3, 2025
Colombian mandate confronts coup rumors at home even as a strange story emerges of a clandestine meet with an Ecuadorian drug lord. With an election year approaching, Colombians can expect a surplus of bluff, bluster, backstabbing and downright...
Lula Urges MERCOSUR to Adopt Local Currencies for International Trade Payments
teleSUR
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Brazilian President Lula da Silva (L) and Argentine President Javier Milei (R), July 3, 2025. X/ @atanimaciones July 3, 2025 Hour: 11:18 am On Thursday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva called on member countries of the Southern Common Market...
Over 280 Ecuadorian and International Organizations Speak Out Against the Criminalization and Violence against Environmental Defenders Resisting Canadian Mining
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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July 3, 2025
Quito-Ottawa: Yesterday, July 2, 2025, 283 Ecuadorian, Canadian, and international organizations, unions, and coalitions sent a letter expressing deep concern about the systematic criminalization of 29 human rights and land defenders in Bolivar...
Ecuador’s Former Vice President Faces 13-Year Prison Sentence
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN) Ecuador's former Vice President, Jorge Glas, was handed a 13-year prison sentence for embezzling public funds allocated for the 2016 earthquake recovery, local media reported Monday. The sentence was delivered unanimously by a tribunal of...
Ecuador's former VP sentenced to 13 years in prison
Xinhua News Agency
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QUITO, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was sentenced to 13 years in prison for embezzling public funds intended for reconstruction following a devastating 2016 earthquake, local media said Monday. According to...
Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia Resigns as Washington Weighs “Certification” of Colombia
The City Paper Bogotá
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July 3, 2025
Colombian Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia resigned on Thursday, delivering a blow to President Gustavo Petro’s government and further straining already fragile ties between Bogotá and Washington. Sarabia, a close Petro confidante and key...
Ecuador’s ex-VP sentenced to 13 years in latest corruption case
Politiko
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July 1, 2025
An Ecuadoran court on Monday handed former vice-president Jorge Glas a 13-year sentence for corruption, following his arrest in a dramatic raid last year on the Mexican embassy where he had been given asylum. Glas, 55, served as vice president of...
Earth-Religion Mysticism Permeates Academia
Evolution News & Science Today - Washington
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July 8, 2025
Photo credit: Alain Bonnardeaux on Unsplash. The “nature rights” movement has infused environmentalism with unscientific mysticism. In spite of — or perhaps because of — that, its influence continues to grow as geological features like rivers,...
Ecuadorian Immigrant and Chic Salon & Spa Owner Irina Erazo’s Passion to Excel Fulfills the American Dream
Space Coast Daily - Florida
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Overcoming adversity, chasing the American Dream with hard work and a passion to excel Tucked in a corner of the sprawling shopping center that once housed Old Time Pottery at 1270 N. Wickham Road in Melbourne, Irina Erazo’s tidy hair salon...
Latin American governments use new technology to fight organized crime
United Press International (UPI)
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July 3 (UPI) -- This is part of an occasional series on organized crime in Latin America. Using new and improved technology should support efforts to combat the sharp rise in crime and drug trafficking across Latin America, representatives from...
Football: Real's Kroos isolating after COVID contact
Rediff
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IMAGE: Toni Kroos will miss Real Madrid's away match at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday. Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos has gone into self-isolation following contact with a person who has tested positive for...
Meet the Miami Mayoral Candidates
Biscayne Times - Miami
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July 3, 2025
The City of Miami is a mess. Locals voice frustration about chronic flooding in neighborhoods. Affordable housing is out of reach for tens of thousands. Gentrification has overtaken historically working-class areas like weeds in a summer garden....