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Bolivia Venezuela collaborate in search for oil

Petroandina, a 60/40 joint venture of Bolivian state oil company YPFB and Venezuelan counterpart PDVSA, will invest an additional $35 million this year in a search for oil and gas in La Paz province. That investment will bring to $151 million the total amount devoted to the Lliquimuni project since the beginning of 2011, YPFB said. Lliquimuni, located in northern La Paz province, may hold as ...
China to introduce death penalty for environmental polluters

Beijing, June 19 (Xinhua-ANI): A new judicial explanation took effect on Wednesday guaranteeing the enforcement of environment-related laws and regulations, which has long been lax and superficial in China. The country's Supreme Court and procuratorate jointly issued the new judicial explanation on Tuesday that imposes harsher punishments on polluters. In the most serious cases the death ...
Independent Publishing Houses in Mexico Promote Democratization of Books at Annual Fair

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Gustavo Barr?n, 22, glances at the books on display at the Feria del Libro Independiente, a book fair featuring independent publishing houses in Mexico City, Mexicos capital. While perusing the selection, Barr?n, a university student studying history, holds a book about guerrilla groups in Mexico in the 1970s and the transition to democracy. The publisher is Ce-Acatl, a ...
People not letting Lisa Snowdon forget about times with George Clooney

Lisa Snowdon, who dated Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney on and off for five years from 2000, has said that they still keep in touch. The 41-year-old English model told new! magazine that it doesn't bother her any more, the Daily Express reported. She said that at the end of the day he is Clooney so people will be interested in knowing about him. Snowdon that though she hasn't seen him ...
Johnny Depp not retiring from Hollywood

Though he thinks about retiring from Hollywood everyday, actor Johnny Depp reveals he has no such immediate plans because his brain "on idle is a bad thing". "I think while I've got the opportunity, the desire and the creative spark to do the things that I can do right now, I should do them. And then, at a certain point, just take it down to the bare minimum and concentrate on, I guess, living ...

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She's the One

Edward Burns' sophomore effort, "She's the One," is a generally unenjoyable romp through the lives of a family of morally misguided, dysfunctional New Yorkers and the people they hurt. I could take this if it were dealt with properly, but the problem is that Burns thinks this is romantic comedy. He doesn't want to deal with the kinds of problems he unearths, so he brushes them off with a light tou ... ...

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Jackie Chan admires Bollywood welcomes Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration

Hollywood's action film star Jackie Chan has expressed his love for Bollywood music and dance sequences, and added that he is waiting for the right script and film director before venturing into an Indo-Chinese Cine collaboration. Chan, who is of Chinese descent, is leading a delegation at a six-day Chinese film festival in New Delhi. Welcomed by a thundering applause, the multi-faceted action ...
Local Nominates JP Miller for Star on Hollywoods Walk of Fame

Montgomery Miller, a son to the late writer, announced today that JP Miller's nomination was submitted on May 31st, for consideration by the Walk of Fame nominating committee for the 2014 schedule of ...
Gandolfinis Death Inspires Emotional Reactions

James Gandolfini's untimely death Wednesday left the actor's fans and colleagues "shocked" and "heartbroken," as evidenced in countless social media posts lauding the actor as a legend who broke the ...
Sony Shareholders Press CEO on Proposed Hollywood Sell-Off

told shareholders at their annual meeting that entertainment is a vital part of the company, but that the board will consider the proposal from hedge fund Third Point to sell a 15 to 20 percent stake in the profit-making ...
Long Beach conference delegates laud American Medical Associations designation of obesity as disease

The American Medical Association vote on Tuesday to recognize obesity as a disease has spurred hopes for enhanced treatment. (Stephen Carr / Staff ...

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Independent Publishing Houses in Mexico Promote Democratization of Books at Annual Fair

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Gustavo Barr?n, 22, glances at the books on display at the Feria del Libro Independiente, a book fair featuring independent publishing houses in Mexico City, Mexicos capital.

While perusing the selection, Barr?n, a university student studying history, holds a book about guerrilla groups in Mexico in the 1970s and the transition to democracy. The publisher is Ce-Acatl, a center of anthropologic, scientific, artistic, traditional and linguistic studies that publishes books about indigenous cultures and social movements.

Looking for books about guerrillas, Barr?n says Ce-Acatls texts offer a different perspective from that of larger publishing companies. In this way, smaller publishing houses are democratizing the book world.

Generally, the commercial publishing houses are focused on the well-known authors, the big journalists, the big historians, the major perspectives, he says. And because they are very well-known, they become commercial within an intellectual elite. So the topics related with those at the bottom are neglected, and it is not easy to find them in large publishing houses.

The student recognizes that all publishing houses have a bias because each has its own target audience. ...