Chile Pepper

Texas and the other southwestern states are famous for hot, spicy food, which uses the traditional ingredients of Mexican cuisine, such as beans and corn, to create new and sometimes unusual dishes. Often called Tex-Mex, this food has become popular throughout the country and can be found in fast food chains as well as elegant restaurants. As the popularity of Tex-Mex grows, restaurants are opening in others parts of the world catering to those who like it hot! [Read More]

Border Control - US Department of State

       The pepper ball guns are non-lethal and use compressed air to shoot pellets filled with chile-pepper-derived powder. The powder irritates and the eyes and nose for about 15 seconds and can be removed with waters. ...

       U.S. Border Patrol agents will be equipped with pepper ball guns to defend themselves in violent confrontations with illegal immigrants. ...

Border Patrol Buys Pepper Ball Guns for Crowd Control ... [Read More]

Department of State Washington File: Byliner: Research Fellow on Agricultural Biodiversity

Diversity also has substantial culinary and esthetic value -- another major benefit, as is apparent from the near-universal drive to exploit it in one way or another. Hungarians, for instance, took a particular fancy to Chile peppers not long after they were introduced into Europe from the New World at the start of the 1500s. Today Hungarian peppers, known generally as paprika, are an indispensable element of the national cuisine and come in a host of varieties with different flavors, colors, and shapes -- all of them developed by farmers and plant breeders over the centuries. ... [Read More]

Fulbrighters Abroad – Personal Accounts of Global Experiences

To prepare the sauce, wash and remove the stems from 10 small Ghanaian red peppers. Crush them in an opotoyuah, an unglazed red earthenware bowl about as big around as a large dinner plate and slightly deeper than the saucer for a flowerpot. The tool for crushing is called a tapoli, a small wooden tool shaped like an hourglass, approximately 3 x 3 x 5 inches, that fits neatly into the palm of the hand. Crush the peppers by rhythmically rocking the tapoli over them in the opotoyuah. ... [Read More]

Brazil

During 2003, the mobile group located 5,010 forced laborers, nearly double the figure from the previous year. Forced laborers were found in activities including deforestation, logging, mining, raising livestock, and harvesting sugarcane, coffee, cotton, papayas, pepper, and soybeans. ...

On January 19, the Sao Paulo State public prosecutor charged five civil Anti-Kidnapping Unit policemen, including Antonio Assuncao de Olim, chief of the Anti-Kidnapping Operations unit, and one police clerk with torturing Jandira de Oliveira Azevedo and Leoclecio Zubem Azevedo, a married couple, and Wagner Mauricio Moreira Belens in April 2003 in the Sapopemba neighborhood of Sao Paulo city. At the time of the couple's arrest, police physically abused them in front of their young children and then subjected the three victims to further beatings and pepper gas while in custody. On January 20, Judge Eduardo Crescenti Abdalla denied the prosecutors' request for preventive imprisonment and placed the case under judicial seal. Former Ministers of Justice Jose Carlos Dias and Miguel Reale Junior, and criminal lawyers from the Institute for the Defense of the Right to Defense (IDDD) represented the couple. On March 30, the state Public Prosecutor resubmitted charges against Olin and three of ... [Read More]

Trade Negotiating Power Likely to Be Extended, USTR Says - U.S. Department of State

Moderator: I think the best way, because of the quality of this microphone, is for you to have your hands up and I can come around and pepper the questions. One of the things I wanted to ask the Ambassador, if I can start this, Ambassador Zoellick, we've had a trend over the last two to three years where trade blocs were happy to sign bilateral agreements at a very aggressive rate. We've seen it in Asia, in the European Union doing so in North Africa, the United States signing bilateral agreements, also, with Egypt, for example, and Morocco. Does this help or hinder the ability to get an overall WTO agreement because there are some who would argue in fact you're taking some products and taking them off the table in these bilateral agreements which makes people reluctant to go to the bigger table to get a more comprehensive deal? ... [Read More]

Brazil

b. Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association The Constitution provides for freedom of assembly, and the Government generally respected this right in practice. Permits are not required for outdoor political or labor meetings, and such meetings occurred frequently. In August, an attorney from the Brazilian Bar Association's Human Rights Commission alleged that at least 31 homeless activists were beaten by military policemen as the activists disbanded from a land invasion by the "Sem Teto" homeless workers movement in Sao Bernardo, Sao Paulo. The attorney reported that police stopped seven trucks carrying activists away from the invasion and assaulted the activists. A federal judge barred a protest march by the MST and a counter-march by rural landowners in Rio Grande do Sul. The MST called the action unconstitutional, citing a right granted by the constitution to free movement wit ... [Read More]

1996 Country Commercial Guides

U.S. Department of StateMalaysia Country Commercial GuideOffice of the Coordinator for Business Affairs COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE MALAYSIA Table of ContentsCHAPTER I. Executive SummaryCHAPTER II. Economic Trends and OutlookCHAPTER III. Political EnvironmentCHAPTER IV. Marketing U.S. Products and ServicesCHAPTER V. Lending Sectors for U.S. Exports and InvestmentCHAPTER VI. Trade Regulations and StandardsCHAPTER VII. Investment ClimateCHAPTER VIII. Trade and Project FinancingCHAPTER IX. Business TravelCHAPTER X. APPENDICES: A. Country Data B. Domestic Economy C. Trade D. Investment Statistics E. U.S. and Country Contacts F. Market Research G. Trade Event Schedule COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE: MALAYSIAThis Country Commercial Guide (CCG) presents a comprehensive look at Malaysia's commercial environment through economic, political and market analyses ... [Read More]