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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva was officially recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Food Program (WFP), both commissions of the United Nations, as a ‘Champion’ for his aggressive leadership role in the effort to end hunger and improve nutrition in Brazil, and the developing world, and for re-emphasizing hunger as a critical global concern and U.N. priority. 

El Salvador, a small Central American country bordered on three sides by Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatamala, was recently in focus in Washington DC, as its president, Mauricio Funes, visited the US, hosted by President Barack Obama. El Salvador and America are linked in a number of cooperative endeavors - not the least of which are the significant remittances sent by the more than 2 million El Salvadorans who reside in the US to relatives back home.

On June 8, 1967, two squadrons of Israeli warplanes bombed, napalmed and machine-gunned the US intelligence-gathering ship, USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 US sailors and wounding another 172.  The assault took place on a sunny afternoon, with the US flag and identifying markers clearly visible.  The Israelis targeted the antennae to prevent the crew from broadcasting for help and shot up the lifeboats to ensure no survivors.  There were, however, survivors who rigged up an antenna and radioed their distress, a call for help that reached Washington D.C.  In an unprecedented act of betrayal, President Johnson, in close liaison with powerful American Jewish Zionist political backers, covered up the mass murder on the high seas by issuing orders first to recall Mediterranean-based warplanes from rushing to assist their besieged comrades, then threatening to court-martial the survivors who might expose the deliberate nature of the Israeli assault and finally by repeating the Israeli line that the attack was a matter of mistaken identity, a lie which numerous military leaders later rejected.

Over the past year the House and the Senate have been working on an effort to provide health insurance reform that lowers costs, guarantees choices, and enhances quality health care for all Americans. Building on that year-long effort, the President's final legislation included the best ideas from both sides of the aisle offered in the course of the debate.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is a strategic and significant investment in America’s future as stated on the White House website. Its prime purposes are Rescue, Recovery and Reinvestment thereby saving and creating jobs, while also laying the foundation for a “robust and sustainable 21st century economy along with modernizing health care, improving schools, modernizing infrastructure, and investing in the clean energy technologies of the future.

The common concerns and priorities of the Latin American and Caribbean nations have once again culminated in coalition.  The ‘Rio Group’convened in Cancun, Mexico recently.

Effective last month, the Credit Card Bill Reform which President Obama signed last year went into effect. To mark the occasion, a live chat was held through CreditCards.com with Austan Goolsbee of the Council of Economic Advisers.

The recent 28 -year anniversary of the undeclared war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, or as they are known in Spanish - Islas Malvinas - arrived and passed with no apparent resolution over the questions of jurisdiction over the islands, and now - the surrounding territorial waters.

To the President of the United States, Syed Barack Hussein Obama: I, El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, El Hashmi El Hassani wal Hussaini and my Qadri followers hereby come forward to proffer our assistance  to act as much needed intermediaries  to play an integral role in sorting out and bridging the gaps amongst warring parties in the massive conflict in Afghanistan.

On February 13 during a video conference with the 7th US Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, US President Obama annouced his choice for Deputy Associate Council.

Costa Ricans have elected their first woman president as the ruling party candidate won in a landslide after campaigning to continue free market policies in Central America’s most stable nation.  The 50-year-old protege of the current president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias, promised to pursue the same economic policies that recently brought the country into a trade pact with the U.S. and opened commerce with China.

Lawmakers in Mexico are contemplating the enactment of laws which would make writing or performing songs or films that glorify criminals or criminal activity illegal. Along with the continued nationwide crackdown on the drug cartels initiated by Mexican President Felipe Calderon which mobilized thousands of soldiers and federal police, legislators in the Mexican Congress have now concluded that the culture of the drug world must also be curtailed, if not eradicated.