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| Obama visits Brazil with Libya on his mind |
(Sun, 20 Mar 2011)
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With a crisis in Libya competing for his time, President Obama stuck to the agenda of his state tour of Brazil, arriving Sunday morning in a once-notorious slum that Brazilian officials now hold up as a symbol of a rejuvenated country.
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Author: Perry Bacon Jr. and Juan Forero |
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| Obama to visit region beset by drug smuggling |
(Mon, 21 Mar 2011)
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When President Obama arrives in the tiny nation of El Salvador this week to talk about security and poverty, he will stand at a crossroads of arms, drug and human trafficking, where homicide rates are soaring and weak governments are struggling without much help against powerful transnational mafias
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| Obama praises Brazil as a model of democracy |
(Mon, 21 Mar 2011)
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With a crisis in Libya competing for his time, President Obama sticks to the agenda of his state tour of Brazil.
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Author: Perry Bacon Jr. and Juan Forero |
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| Amid Japan and Libya crises, Obama heads to Brazil for five-day Latin America visit |
(Sun, 20 Mar 2011)
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The White House said the president can monitor outside situations during the long-planned trip.
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Author: Perry Bacon Jr. |
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| Obama set to leave for Central and South America |
(Fri, 18 Mar 2011)
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President Obama opted not to cancel his long-planned trip in the wake of the earthquake in Japan.
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Author: Perry Bacon Jr. |
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| Obama to focus on economic issues, repairing relations in Brazil trip |
(Fri, 18 Mar 2011)
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He arrives for a two-day state visit before flying to Chile, then El Salvador.
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Author: Juan Forero and Perry Bacon Jr. |
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| Libya's Gadhafi, increasingly isolated internationally, finds supporters in Latin America |
(Tue, 15 Mar 2011)
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CARACAS, Venezuela - As Moammar Gadhafi finds himself increasingly isolated internationally, he still has at least a few friends far away.
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| In Venezuela, Chavez tries to boost Gaddafi |
(Sun, 06 Mar 2011)
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Moammar Gaddafi is hunkered down, some once-loyal aides have abandoned him for the rebel side and President Obama and other leaders are demanding he step down.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| New consumer class powering economic growth across South America |
(Fri, 25 Feb 2011)
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USHUAIA, ARGENTINA - Here at the end of the Earth, just 600 miles from Antarctica, tourists hike over glaciers and flock to rocky beaches to photograph penguins and 700-pound sea lions.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Palestinians seek global recognition through South America |
(Thu, 17 Feb 2011)
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With peace talks with Israel frozen, the Palestinian Authority is now focusing on using the momentum from South America, where eight countries recognized Palestinian statehood in December and January, to win recognition in Europe. Palestinian diplomats contend that would provide a critical mass of s
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Author: Juan Forero and Janine Zacharia |
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| Which are better for Valentine's Day: eco-certified bouquets or silk flowers? |
(Tue, 08 Feb 2011)
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Valentine's Day is arriving. I want to buy flowers for my sweetheart, but it seems like a lot of resources go into growing and delivering a bouquet that will wilt just a few days later. You've suggested looking for eco-certified bouquets, but would I be better off just buying silk flowers instead?
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| Colombia stepping up anti-drug training of Mexico's army, police |
(Sat, 22 Jan 2011)
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CAJICA, COLOMBIA - Long experienced in fighting cocaine cartels and Marxist guerrillas, Colombia is training thousands of Mexican policemen as well as soldiers and court officers to help contain drug gangs that have turned parts of Mexico into virtual combat zones.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Glacier melt in Peru becomes more than a climate issue |
(Sun, 16 Jan 2011)
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HUARAZ, Peru - Glacier melt hasn't caused a national crisis in Peru, yet. But high in the Andes, rising temperatures and changes in water supply over the last 40 years have decimated crops, killed fish stocks and forced villages to question how they will survive for another generation.
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Author: Heather Somerville |
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| The Obama staff shuffle kicks into high gear |
(Tue, 11 Jan 2011)
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Busy days ahead for movers in President Obama's West Wing. Wednesday is move-in day for the new White House chief of staff, Bill Daley, and his chief of staff, David Lane, who's been running Bono's One Campaign and before that was a senior official at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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| Despite Argentina's efforts, artifacts of Juan Peron, Evita in private hands |
(Mon, 27 Dec 2010)
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BUENOS AIRES - Like a devoted curator, Mario Rotundo affectionately recounts the history of each of the objects in his musty apartment as if they were museum pieces, from the jazz LPs to a book some two centuries old to the size-9 wingtips neatly lined up in a row.
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| Santos is a new breed of diplomat at Colombia's helm |
(Sun, 26 Dec 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - The fiery socialist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela used to deride Juan Manuel Santos as the No. 1 "little Yankee.'' Now, as Colombia's new president, Santos calls Chavez "my new best friend.''
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest' |
(Sun, 26 Dec 2010)
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who was inaugurated Aug. 7 and has taken his country by storm with a wide array of new initiatives, spoke to The Post's Juan Forero on Dec. 6 in New York and again on Dec. 10 in the Colombian capital, Bogota.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is granted decree powers by lame-duck National Assembly |
(Sat, 18 Dec 2010)
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Congress approved laws that give the state more control over the economy and granted Chavez decree powers that permit him to rule until mid-2012 without input from legislators.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| S. American mountains hold key to electric car's future: lithium for batteries |
(Fri, 17 Dec 2010)
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IN SUSQUES, ARGENTINA It's the lightest of all metals, skitters wildly on water and can unexpectedly explode. To mine it commercially requires an elaborate process involving drilling, evaporation tanks and chemical processing.
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| Venezuela acquires 1,800 antiaircraft missiles from Russia |
(Sat, 11 Dec 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - Russia delivered at least 1,800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to Venezuela in 2009, U.N. arms control data show, despite vigorous U.S. efforts to stop President Hugo Chavez's stridently anti-American government from acquiring the weapons. The United States feared that th...
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Report notes decrease in Colombian cocaine production |
(Fri, 10 Dec 2010)
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Colombia, the world's biggest supplier of cocaine, saw production of the illegal narcotic decline last year amid a government spraying campaign and declining U.S. consumption, according to a report.
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Author: Heather Walsh |
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| Pact could be near to save tropical forests |
(Tue, 07 Dec 2010)
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CANCUN, MEXICO - For years, policymakers and scientists alike have spoken of the need to save tropical forests as a way of curbing climate change. By week's end, U.N. negotiators may finally set the rules of the road for doing it.
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Author: Juliet Eilperin |
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| Iranian cash building bonds with Bolivia |
(Sun, 05 Dec 2010)
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EL ALTO, BOLIVIA - Helen Limachi walked out of a gleaming new hospital in this wind-swept city satisfied with the care her 4-month-old son, Fabricio, had received for his ailing hip.
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Author: Helen Coster |
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| Cables released by WikiLeaks reveal U.S. concerns over South America |
(Thu, 02 Dec 2010)
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The State Department wanted to know whether Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was on medication. American diplomats in Brazil, meanwhile, heard that Bolivia's indigenous president, Evo Morales, had a tumor.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Bolivia walks thin line as it struggles to battle coca production |
(Sat, 13 Nov 2010)
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IN COROICO, BOLIVIA In this remote corner of the Andes, three hours from Bolivia's capital city, Adela Mamani Poma earns $5 a day growing one of the world's most controversial crops.
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Author: Helen Coster |
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| Rousseff is Brazil's first female president |
(Mon, 01 Nov 2010)
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Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla turned button-down technocrat with expertise in everything from energy to high finance, comfortably won Brazil's presidency Sunday in a contest that demonstrated voter loyalty to the man who handpicked her for the job, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Ex-Argentine president Nestor Kirchner dies at 60 |
(Wed, 27 Oct 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - Nestor Kirchner, an Argentine power broker who as president from 2003 to 2007 helped guide his country out of a calamitous economic crisis, died Oct. 27 after an apparent heart attack.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| At 102, Brazil's foremost architect celebrates past achievements, looks to the future |
(Sun, 17 Oct 2010)
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BRASILIA - Oscar Niemeyer, a towering figure in 20th-century architecture, is now 102, confined to a wheelchair, his vision faltering, his hand unsteady. It has been 50 years since his greatest accomplishment, designing the monumental buildings of a Brazilian utopia carved out of a distant outback.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Brazilian scientists turning nation into an agro-power |
(Sat, 16 Oct 2010)
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Once seen as a wasteland, Brazil's Cerrado - a wide savannah that covers nearly a quarter of the country - is now the motor of an agro-industry so potent that Brazil threatens to surpass the United States as breadbasket to the world.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Government crackdown after mine collapse leaves other Chilean miners feeling left out in the cold |
(Sat, 16 Oct 2010)
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IN TIERRA AMARILLA, CHILE Aminer for 45 years, Fernando Rivadeneira has a knack for reading the geological signposts that can lead to the mother lode, tons of high-priced copper here in northern Chile.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| In weeks before rescuers made contact, miners struggled with despair |
(Fri, 15 Oct 2010)
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SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE - When the world came crashing down, Richard Villarroel thought he would be entombed forever, with little chance that rescuers would ever reach him in a dark chamber 2,050 feet under the Atacama Desert.
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Author: Jonathan Franklin and Juan Forero |
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| Last of Chilean miners is rescued, as families and nation celebrate |
(Thu, 14 Oct 2010)
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AT THE SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE He had spent 69 exhausting days trapped far below the Earth's surface. So when Mario Sepulveda was finally rescued early Wednesday, he bear-hugged Chilean President Sebastian Pinera, danced a victory jig and punched his fist into the air while leading rescuers in a che...
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Author: Juan Forero and Jonathan Franklin |
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| Chile mine rescue completed; last miner is hoisted to safety |
(Wed, 13 Oct 2010)
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SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE - A saga that had gripped the world for more than two months ended happily Wednesday night as the last of 33 miners who had been trapped under 2,000 feet of rock in northern Chile was pulled to the surface.
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Author: Juan Forero and Jonathan Franklin |
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| Chilean miners to begin emerging tonight |
(Tue, 12 Oct 2010)
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SAN JOSE MINE, Chile - After 68 days deep in a dank, hot purgatory, the first of 33 trapped miners was expected to be hoisted to freedom Tuesday night, ending a dramatic life-and-death struggle that has mesmerized much of the world.
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Author: Jonathan Franklin and Juan Forero |
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| Chileans see mine rescue as a rebirth for the country |
(Tue, 12 Oct 2010)
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SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE - They are trapped more than 2,000 feet under the earth, their only link to life above a narrow tube used for food and water. But the 33 miners whose saga has captivated the world for 67 days have received bottles of shampoo and were to get clean clothes.
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Author: Jonathan Franklin and Juan Forero |
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| Riding coattails of popular Brazilian president, former radical expected to win |
(Wed, 29 Sep 2010)
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SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, once dubbed "the most popular politician on Earth" by President Obama, cannot seek reelection in this country of 200 million.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Chavez fails to reach critical two-thirds majority in Venezuelan assembly |
(Tue, 28 Sep 2010)
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Voters in Venezuela stopped President Hugo Chavez from obtaining the two-thirds majority the populist leader said he needed in the National Assembly to effortlessly continue his transformation of Venezuela into a socialist state.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Colombian rebel leader reportedly killed in military strike |
(Thu, 23 Sep 2010)
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The legendary military strategist of Colombia's largest rebel group has been killed in a military strike, a development that President Juan Manuel Santos called Thursday the biggest blow against a guerrilla organization in the rebels' 46-year war with the Colombian state.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| As rescue nears, trapped Chilean miners prepare to deal with media spotlight |
(Wed, 22 Sep 2010)
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IN SANTIAGO, CHILE The 33 men who have been trapped in a Chilean mine for the past six weeks are preparing for a new odyssey: confronting sudden celebrity.
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Author: Jonathan Franklin |
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| Leftist Venezuelan politician Henri Falcon challenges Chavez's authority |
(Wed, 22 Sep 2010)
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BARQUISIMETO, VENEZUELA - The most popular politician in this tidy city plunges into the crowds, handing out small loans to small businesses and pledging to build new homes.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Chilean rescuers optimistic that trapped miners to be freed sooner than thought |
(Tue, 21 Sep 2010)
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SANTIAGO, CHILE - Chilean rescuers are growing increasingly optimistic about pulling the 33 trapped miners out far sooner than originally estimated, and with drilling quickly advancing on three narrow escape chutes, they raced Tuesday to decide on a design for the capsule that will lift the men ...
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Author: Michael Warren |
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| Brazil quickly becoming a player in the global economy |
(Tue, 21 Sep 2010)
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With an expansionary push in recent years among entrepreneurs, Brazil is rapidly becoming one of the more important investors in Latin America and is making its presence felt as far away as the United States, Africa and Europe.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Letter from Argentina: Country legalizes same-sex marriage, and couples make big plans |
(Sat, 11 Sep 2010)
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BUENOS AIRES - Sergio Donoso is gay and says he loves feathers. So on this day, in Andrea Pipkin's party favors shop, he draped a white feather boa around his neck, donning plastic neon sunglasses and a goofy silver topped hat.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable |
(Sun, 05 Sep 2010)
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SAN MARTIN DE SAMIRIA, PERU - To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial - from the ubiquitous fruit palms to the cry of howler monkeys, from the air thick with mosquitoes to the unruly tangle of jungle vines.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| A veteran rock-and-roll manager returns - in South America |
(Thu, 02 Sep 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - He was once one of London's best-known '60s-era rogues, dressed flamboyantly, spinning around town in a Mini Cooper and using a bodyguard known as "the butcher" to threaten his rivals.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Stepped-up efforts by U.S., Mexico fail to stem flow of drug money south |
(Wed, 25 Aug 2010)
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LAREDO, TEX. - Stashing cash in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, couriers for Mexican drug cartels are moving tens of billions of dollars in profits south across the border each year, a river of dirty money that has overwhelmed U.S. and Mexican customs agents.
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| Colombia, Venezuela restore diplomatic ties |
(Thu, 12 Aug 2010)
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| Colombia opens door for talks with FARC rebels |
(Wed, 11 Aug 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- The arrival of a more moderate president in Colombia has opened the possibility, if ever so slight, of talks with Marxist rebels to end a cocaine-fueled conflict that dates to the 1960s.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Juan Manuel Santos takes oath as Colombia's new president |
(Sun, 08 Aug 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- Eight years ago, homemade rockets fired by Marxist rebels rained down on the presidential palace as Ãlvaro Uribe took office, forewarning the all-out war that would come in his efforts to take back much of the country from potent guerrilla groups.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Colombia's new president lays out his vision in speech |
(Sat, 07 Aug 2010)
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Juan Manuel Santos catapulted to the presidency of Colombia after the armed forces, under his watch, delivered the biggest blows against the FARC rebel group in the country's long conflict.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Colombia-Venezuela dispute unresolved in meeting of South American leaders |
(Sat, 31 Jul 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- After the posturing and hysterics, an emergency meeting and competing press briefings, South American leaders were unable to resolve a crisis that began when the Colombian government accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of aiding and abetting Colombian guerrillas.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Hezbollah militants may be charged in Hariri death |
(Thu, 29 Jul 2010)
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LEBANON Lebanon is braced for another political crisis as a special tribunal set up to try the killers of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former prime minister, appears to be heading toward indicting members of Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group.
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| South American leaders to discuss Colombia-Venezuela relationship |
(Wed, 28 Jul 2010)
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- An emergency meeting of South American leaders has been scheduled Thursday in Quito, Ecuador to defuse a bitter dispute that began when Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accused his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, of supporting Colombian guerrillas.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft |
(Mon, 26 Jul 2010)
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PORTO DO ACU, BRAZIL -- Here along the golden sands that grace the Atlantic coastline 175 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, China is forging a new economic reality.
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Author: John Pomfret |
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| Kosovo bank chief held in graft probe; Iranian president assails Russian; Venezuela warns Colombia |
(Sat, 24 Jul 2010)
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| Hotel fire kills 28 in Iraq's Kurdish region |
(Sat, 17 Jul 2010)
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IRAQ A fierce blaze at a hotel without fire escapes sent some desperate guests plunging to their deaths in a northern Iraqi oil boomtown, killing 28 people.
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| 21killed, scores injured in two suicide bombings in southeastern Iran |
(Fri, 16 Jul 2010)
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IRAN At least 21 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed and 100 were wounded in two suicide bombings Thursday at the main Shiite mosque in Zahedan, capital of the southeastern province
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| Gay rights activists celebrate Argentine vote for same-sex marriage |
(Fri, 16 Jul 2010)
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It was 4:05 a.m. and frigid outside the Congress building in Buenos Aires as Argentine lawmakers voted Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage, but Marcelo Marquez was still there. He had waited through 14 hours of debate for the moment that would make his country the first in overwhelmingly Catho...
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Venezuelan union clashes are on the rise as Chavez fosters new unions at odds with older ones |
(Thu, 15 Jul 2010)
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MARACAY, VENEZUELA -- Calling itself the most labor-friendly government in Latin America, President Hugo Chávez's socialist administration has repeatedly increased the minimum wage, turned over the management of some nationalized companies to workers and fostered the creation of new unions.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Venezuelans oppose Chávez attempt to nationalize private food company |
(Fri, 09 Jul 2010)
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As in all major government takeovers of private companies in Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez declared that seizing beer-and-food giant Polar's facilities here would mark another victory for the poor in the country's march toward socialism.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Backlog of Colombian human rights cases pose a test for new president, the U.S. |
(Sat, 26 Jun 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- The verdict this week was a milestone: A distant court affiliated with the Washington-based Organization of American States held the Colombian government responsible for the 1994 assassination of a prominent senator.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Inter-American court faults Colombia in slaying of lawmaker |
(Sat, 26 Jun 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- The verdict this week was a milestone: A distant court affiliated with the Washington-based Organization of American States held the Colombian government responsible for the 1994 assassination of a prominent senator.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Italy in danger of not advancing at World Cup |
(Thu, 24 Jun 2010)
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The World Cup is no place for defending champions, with only Italy in 1938 and Brazil in 1962 repeating. The Azzurri are facing an early, ignominious departure from South Africa if they don't beat Slovakia on Thursday.
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| Exile queried after saying Colombian leader's brother headed illegal militia |
(Wed, 23 Jun 2010)
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COLOMBIA A retired police major who is in exile in Argentina was deposed Tuesday by the Colombian attorney general's office after he accused President Ãlvaro Uribe's brother of having led a right-wing paramilitary group in the early 1990s.
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| Exiled police major gives deposition on Colombian militia |
(Tue, 22 Jun 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- A retired police major who is in exile in Argentina was deposed Tuesday by the Colombian attorney general's office after he accused President Ãlvaro Uribe's brother of having led a right-wing paramilitary group in the early 1990s.
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| Colombia's Santos is elected president |
(Mon, 21 Jun 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- Juan Manuel Santos, who as defense minister in Colombian President Ãlvaro Uribe's government oversaw the biggest blows against an entrenched guerrilla force, was elected president Sunday in a landslide.
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| 'Gringo chief' Randy Borman helps Ecuador's Cofan Indians survive, thrive |
(Mon, 21 Jun 2010)
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PIZARRAS, ECUADOR -- On a recent day, the man known as the Gringo Chief wore a traditional black smock and a necklace strung with jaguar and wild boar's teeth, perfectly suitable for the Cofan Indian ceremony marking the acquisition of yet another slice of rain forest.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Venezuela's Chavez fights off criticism of economic record |
(Wed, 16 Jun 2010)
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has strongly defended his economic record after a turbulent year in which the country has been rocked by recession and 30 percent inflation.
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| Priest faces criticism for shining light on human rights abuses in Colombia |
(Sat, 12 Jun 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- The ruling issued this week was one of the most severe ever handed down in Colombia against a member of the security forces: 30 years in prison for a retired army colonel found responsible for the disappearance of 11 people in 1985.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| As World Cup kicks off, spotlight shines on S. Africa's troubled past, hopeful future |
(Fri, 11 Jun 2010)
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JOHANNESBURG -- The 2010 World Cup got underway Friday amid elaborate pageantry, the blare of ubiquitous plastic horns known as vuvuzelas and profound grief over the tragic death of Nelson Mandela's 13-year-old great-granddaughter.
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| Hillary Clinton tries to fix relationship with Ecuador President Rafael Correa |
(Wed, 09 Jun 2010)
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QUITO, ECUADOR -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reached out Tuesday to one of the left-leaning populist leaders of South America, attempting to edge Ecuador's President Rafael Correa out of the orbit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
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| Issue of readmitting Honduras to OAS continues to split Latin America and U.S. |
(Tue, 08 Jun 2010)
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LATIN AMERICA Last year's coup in Honduras, which took place shortly after the Organization of American States held a general assembly meeting there, continues to divide Latin America and the United States.
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| Clinton urges OAS to let Honduras rejoin |
(Mon, 07 Jun 2010)
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Author: Glenn Kessler |
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| Lionel Messi leads potent Argentina at 2010 World Cup |
(Wed, 02 Jun 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- He is soccer's reigning star, the 2009 winner of the FIFA World player of the year award. And he leads an elite team, Barcelona, which is accustomed to thrashing opponents in Spain's first division, La Liga. Loyal fans, from Spain to Argentina, know him as an explosive striker...
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| Santos handily wins first round of Colombian presidential election |
(Mon, 31 May 2010)
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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- A former defense minister who would continue President Ãlvaro Uribe's tough anti-guerrilla policies handily defeated a former Bogota mayor Sunday in the first round of presidential elections. Juan Manuel Santos, 58, who oversaw the most decisive strikes against rebel forces, d...
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Author: Juan Forero |
Category: Santos |
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| In Colombia, presidential race is no done deal |
(Sun, 30 May 2010)
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POPAYAN, COLOMBIA -- In speech after speech, Juan Manuel Santos, candidate to succeed President Alvaro Uribe in Sunday's election, reminds his audience that he was Uribe's defense minister when the most decisive blows were delivered against the country's much-reviled guerrillas.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| More aid expected for Fannie, Freddie |
(Wed, 26 May 2010)
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage-finance companies operating under U.S. conservatorship, will require additional government aid amid losses stemming from the 2008 credit crisis, the nation's top housing regulator said in its annual report to Congress.
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Author: Post |
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| Colombian president's brother said to have lead death squads |
(Mon, 24 May 2010)
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Colombian President Ãlvaro Uribe will leave office in August having largely succeeded in winning control of once-lawless swaths of countryside from Marxist rebels, an accomplishment partly made possible by more than $6 billion in U.S. aid.
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Author: Juan Forero |
Category: Colombian |
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| Venezuela's Hugo Chavez allegedly helped Colombian, Spanish militants forge ties |
(Thu, 20 May 2010)
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MACHIQUES, VENEZUELA -- For two years, Colombian officials have accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of providing arms and sanctuary to Marxist rebels intent on toppling Colombian President Ãlvaro Uribe, Washington's closest ally in a turbulent region.
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Author: Juan Forero |
Category: Venezuela's |
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| Politically astute outsider Mockus making ground in campaign for president of Colombia |
(Fri, 07 May 2010)
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BUCARAMANGA, COLOMBIA -- Colombians have long known Antanas Mockus for his antics, such as the time he mooned an auditorium full of rowdy students during his stint as a university president. And how he got married atop an elephant.
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Author: Juan Forero |
Category: Politically |
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| Bolivia nationalizes four power companies |
(Sun, 02 May 2010)
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LA PAZ, BOLIVIA -- Leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales said Saturday that he has nationalized four power companies, including a subsidiary of France's GDF Suez, in his drive to tighten state control over the impoverished economy.
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Author: Diego Ore and Eduardo Garcia |
Category: Bolivia |
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| Brazilian rancher convicted in killing of U.S.-born nun |
(Sun, 02 May 2010)
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A jury convicted a Brazilian rancher Saturday of orchestrating the slaying of U.S.-born nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang in 2005.
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Author: Bradley Brooks |
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| Oil-rich Venezuela gripped by economic crisis |
(Thu, 29 Apr 2010)
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SAN CRISTOBAL, VENEZUELA -- Every day for the past three months, government-programmed blackouts have meant the lights flicker and go dark in a city that once bustled with commerce. And Fifth Street, with its auto parts stores and car repair shops, has ground to a halt.
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Author: Juan Forero |
Category: Oil-rich |
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| Despite billions in U.S. aid, Colombia struggles to reduce poverty |
(Mon, 19 Apr 2010)
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ALGARROBO, COLOMBIA -- Eight years after President Ãlvaro Uribe took office and began harnessing billions in U.S. aid dollars to pummel Marxist guerrillas, Colombia is safer for this country's 45 million people and for the foreign investors who have flocked here.
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Author: Juan Forero |
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| World Digest: Countries align against sanctions on Iran |
(Fri, 16 Apr 2010)
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SOUTH AMERICA Brazil's foreign minister said there is an "affinity" between his country's opposition to new sanctions on Iran and the positions of China and India, as leaders met in Brasilia during a Thursday summit.
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Author: Post |
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| Kissinger canceled anti-assassination warning, cable shows |
(Sun, 11 Apr 2010)
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As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, a newly...
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Author: Pete Yost |
Category: Kissinger |
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| As U.S. attempted to remove nuclear material from Chile, earthquake struck |
(Sun, 11 Apr 2010)
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When the shaking began just after 3:34 a.m. on Feb. 27, Andrew Bieniawski woke up with a start in his room on the 15th floor of the Sheraton Hotel in Santiago, Chile. A picture fell off the wall.
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Author: David E. Hoffman |
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| World Digest: Opponents of Venezuela's Chávez jailed in crackdown |
(Sat, 27 Mar 2010)
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VENEZUELA Two foes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez who had publicly criticized the socialist government in recent days found themselves in jail this week as part of a crackdown on opposition figures that has prompted alarm about the state of democracy in the oil-rich Latin American country.
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Author: Post |
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| Arrest in Venezuela raises free speech concerns |
(Wed, 24 Mar 2010)
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CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- Venezuelan authorities have jailed a former state governor and presidential candidate who accused President Hugo Chávez's government of links to subversive groups in Latin America.
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Author: Andrew Cawthorne |
Category: Arrest |
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| Chinese oil giant to buy stake in Argentine firm |
(Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
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HONG KONG -- Leading offshore-oil producer China National Offshore Oil Corp. said Sunday that it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to form a joint venture with a major Argentine energy firm, helping to expand China's access to natural resources in South America.
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Author: Associated Press |
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| Aftershocks a reality check for Chilean President Sebastián Piñera |
(Fri, 12 Mar 2010)
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SANTIAGO, CHILE -- Sebastián Piñera pledged during his presidential campaign to bring fiscal prudence to Chile, but moments before his inauguration Thursday, he received a jolting reminder of how last month's 8.8-magnitude earthquake has shredded that promise.
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Author: Juan Forero |
Category: Aftershocks |
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