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AUSTIN, Texas -- Univision has been the most important Spanish language media company in the U.S. Now its digital news arm is taking aim at the 500 million Spanish speakers around the world. Borja Echevarria , its digital editor-in-chief, says his team is at the beginning of an initiative aimed at Spanish speakers in Latin America and globally. "Fishermen in the desert," Univision's report on a lake that dried up in Bolivia. �We are covering topics that might occur in Bolivia but that could be related to something that occurs in Colombia or in Peru . We are not trying to attack highly local topics, at least not in this first stage. We are looking for topics of international interest.� He made his comments to me in an interview in April on the sidelines of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. Versi�n en espa�ol An example of the kind of coverage he described was Univision.com�s multimedia package on Lake Poop�, the second-largest in Bolivia, which dried u

A Queens man has been busted for defrauding a group of churchgoers out of $105,000 in phony investments in his Long Island companies, police said. Molton Michel, 32, of Kew Gardens, was charged with grand larcenies committed in 2000 and 2001 against three members of a Queens church, Hope Restoration, said Nassau County, Detective Sgt. Thomas Reilly. Enstalasyon Vice - Deleguation Archaie Jean Pierre Molton Michel en photos. He was charged with three counts of grand larceny and one count of fraud, Reilly said. Michel, who had no prior arrests, had fled to Florida after he stopped paying dividends on his bogus investments and had recently returned to Queens. �There are believed to be more victims who have refused to cooperate� with the investigation, Reilly said.