Megano de Casiguas Key, a tiny islet of the Cuban archipelago where celebrated American writer Ernest Hemingway used to sail to aboard his El Pilar vessel, will soon become a brand-new tourist attraction beginning next year.

The problems of child prostitution and sexual exploitation in Brazil are worse off than in many other countries. And the deadly combination of poverty, crime and tourism is to blame, a UN special envoy was quoted as saying.

Air Canada will open up a new route between Costa Rica’s San Jose and Toronto as soon as next December.

Flights will take off every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday using a 120-seat A-319 aircraft.

Costa Rican tourism minister Rodrigo Castro said the increasingly higher demand for international services will give this tourist destination some solid grounds for a good lift.

Six sailors are reenacting an expedition organized 464 years ago down the so-called Dubious Strait by Spanish skippers Adolfo Calero and Diego de Machuca who sailed through Nicaragua’s Great Lake en route to the Caribbean Sea.

With that goal in mind, the Pirate Lorraine sailboat left the environment-friendly Brisas del Lago Hotel from the Asese Seaport in Granada, some 28 miles south of Managua.

Four Hispanic leaders from the U.S. House of Representatives have knocked together a bill that would eventually allow laser visa travelers from Mexico to stay up to six months in the States.

Democratic Reps Ruben Hinojosa, Ciro Rodriguez, Solomon Ortiz and Raul Grijalva joined hands with Republican Sen. John Cornyn who’s presenting a similar version of the bill in the Senate.

American company Ogden sold its stocks (28 percent in all) in Argentina Airports 2000, an Argentine 32-hub mesh, to local America Corp. for $30 million.

America Corp. –owned by Argentine entrepreneur Eduardo Eurnekian- will now control the airport network by becoming the top shareholder with 63 percent of all stocks, Buenos Aires newspaper El Cronista reported.