Category Archives: Latin America

Virgin Sacrifice in IT Sector

Posted on April 22, 2007 by dowbrigade

A Dutch escort agency is launching a special virgin service for computer geeks. Sociology student Zoe Vialet, who set up Society Service last year, says she has had a lot of demand from virgins. She says most of them work … Continue reading →

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Anti-Bush Minister Killed Near US Base

Posted on January 25, 2007 by glasscastle

It has started. Again. The wave of leftist governments spreading across Latin America got a cold, creepy wakeup call last night when the new, socialist, Minister of Defense of Ecuador, the first female to hold that position, was killed in … Continue reading →

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The Kingdom of Strange Names

Posted on January 9, 2007 by glasscastle

CARACAS, Venezuela – As university students clashed with the police in this country last May, attention focused not just on their demands to hold elections without government meddling but also on the names of the two leaders organizing the protests: … Continue reading →

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Holy Grail of Sex Drugs – Female Viagra

Posted on January 9, 2007 by glasscastle

JUNIN, Peru — In a small storefront on a bleak, wind-swept Andean plateau, Timotea Cordova offers an oxygen-deprived visitor a traditional elixir to ward off the breathless effect of the high altitude. For hundreds of years, Quechua Indians have grown … Continue reading →

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Dowbrigade Back on the Beat

Posted on December 8, 2006 by glasscastle

It’s finally over, the semester that wouldn’t end. It started, if memory serves, on May 29, with a class of Business Professionals meeting in a weird wired classroom near the Business School, and ended this afternoon with a farewell lunch … Continue reading →

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Mexico Prepares Drug Orgy for US Tourists

Posted on May 23, 2006 by glasscastle

MEXICO CITY – Demonstrators pretend to smoke fake marijuana cigarettes during a protest for the decriminalization of marijuana in La Alameda park, in this May 4, 2002 file photo in Mexico City. Police and business owners from Mexico’s beaches to … Continue reading →

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1,500 Year Old Tattooed Lady Appears in Peru

Posted on May 16, 2006 by glasscastle

An exquisitely preserved and elaborately tattooed mummy of a young woman has been discovered deep inside a mud-brick pyramid in northern Peru, archaeologists from Peru and the U.S. announced today. The 1,500-year-old mummy may shed new light on the mysterious … Continue reading →

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BU Student Killed in Peru

Posted on May 16, 2006 by glasscastle

LIMA, Peru -A packed bus skidded off a highway and flipped on its side in Peru’s southern Andes mountains, killing 13 people, including one American, and injuring 40, police said Monday. The accident occurred before dawn Sunday on an isolated … Continue reading →

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Real Hot Baths

Posted on May 14, 2006 by glasscastle

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano is emitting its loudest and most frequent explosions since it rumbled back to life nearly seven years ago after eight decades of inactivity, scientists said. The volcano registered 133 explosions of vapor and gas … Continue reading →

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Bye, Bye Bolivia

Posted on May 4, 2006 by glasscastle

Why would Bolivia blow off the International Oil industry unless they already had a long-term, pressure immune alternate buyer lined up? BOGOTA — When President Evo Morales nationalized Bolivia’s gas industry this week, he fulfilled a popular campaign promise to … Continue reading →

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