FatherGarage.com

President Obama will make his promised trip to Latin America from March 19 to 23, visiting four cities in three countries, the White House said on Friday.

Mr. Obama disclosed in his State of the Union address last month that he would be traveling to Brazil, Chile and El Salvador “to forge new alliances across the Americas.” But the dates and cities had not been announced.

The White House statement said Mr. Obama will meet with both the leaders and citizens of those countries to discuss a broad range of issues, including economics and trade, energy and security cooperation. He will visit the capitals of all three countries – Brasilia, Santiago and San Salvador – as well as Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

“The trip will provide an opportunity to engage key bilateral partners, to highlight the President’s engagement with the hemisphere, and to advance our efforts to work as equal partners to address the basic challenges facing the people of the Americas,” the statement said.

In Brazil, Mr. Obama will meet the new president, Dilma Rousseff. She heads a growing nation that in recent years has sought a more influential — and at times confrontational — role in international councils as the voice of emerging countries on trade, climate change and nuclear proliferation. In Chile, the president will be visiting one of his country’s largest trading partners in Latin America. Mr. Obama’s stop in El Salvador is as much about domestic politics as international affairs; one of the larger and fast-growing immigrant populations in the United States hails from this nation.

View the original article here

This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.

The big story of the past week has involved citizen outrage over the Transportation Security Administration’s invasive body scanners, pat-downs, and heavy-handed tactics. To be sure, this is a tricky subject. We Americans, of course, do not surrender our constitutional rights simply because we enter an airport (though you wouldn’t know that if you were [...]

Once an airline triumphantly advertised itself Don Draper-style as “The Wings of Man.” Now getting to the airline gate subjects you to the shackles of security. The barbed wire airport and the shoeless security lines are assaults on dignity and privacy that Americans have sullenly accepted out of fear of far more deadly assaults. No [...]

Once an airline triumphantly advertised itself Don Draper-style as “The Wings of Man.” Now getting to the airline gate subjects you to the shackles of security. The barbed wire airport and the shoeless security lines are assaults on dignity and privacy that Americans have sullenly accepted out of fear of far more deadly assaults. No [...]

For much of the post-crisis recovery, John A. Paulson has bet big on the nation’s banks, wagering that with the worst of the financial meltdown behind us, the sector was full of promise. It appears that Mr. Paulson is no longer as fervent a believer in that thesis. Article ToolsE-mail ThisPrint ShareCloseLinkedinDiggFacebookMixxMy SpacePermalinkRelated LinksPaulson & [...]

Bank of America is running out of time to fulfill a promise to raise more capital by year-end and may be forced to make up the shortfall by paying some bonuses in stock rather than cash, Bloomberg News reports. The gap of about $1.1 billion at Bank of America stems from its accord last December [...]