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U.S. aid implicated in abuses of power in Colombia

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Karen DeYoung, Claudia J. Duque - Aug. 20 (News Report) - The Obama administration often cites Colombia’s thriving democracy as proof that U.S. assistance, know-how and commitment can turn around a potentially failed state under terrorist siege. The country’s U.S.-funded counterinsurgency campaign against a Marxist rebel group — and the civilian and military coordination behind it — are viewed as so successful that it has become a model for strategy in Afghanistan. But new revelations in long-running political scandals under former president Alvaro Uribe , a close U.S. ally throughout his eight-year tenure, have implicated American aid, and possibly U.S. officials, in egregious abuses of power and illegal actions by the Colombian government under the guise of fighting terrorism and drug smuggling. ...

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Ex-President Uribe denies ordering Colombia’s intelligence agency to spy on judges, foes

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Washington Post - Aug. 18 (News Report) - More than 20 agents of the DAS intelligence agency have been imprisoned for alleged roles in the spying. Two have pleaded guilty in exchange for reduced sentences.

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Los 33: Chilean miners face up to a strange new world

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Angus Macqueen - Jul. 17 (News Report) - The rescue of 33 miners from Chile's San José mine after 69 days trapped underground was a triumph shared with the whole world. But the transition back to normality is proving difficult for both the men and their families 'They are not heroes. We are not heroes. We are all victims," murmurs Lilly Ramírez, the uncompromising partner of Mario Gómez. At 63, he was the oldest of "the 33" Chilean miners who were trapped half a mile under the Chilean desert on 5 August 2010, and whose rescue became a global event for a TV audience of an estimated 1 billion people. Ever since they emerged 69 days later on the night of 12/13 October, I have been working on two BBC documentaries: about what happened while the men were down the mine – and what has happened to them and their families since. Now, as the first anniversary approaches, it is the tenacity and the suffering of the women – the wives and partners – that emerges. They and their men were certainly victims but I am not sure Lilly is right: there ...

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Chavez arrives in Cuba for cancer treatment

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jul. 17 (News Report) - Chavez, who will receive chemotherapy for the disease which was diagnosed in Havana about a month ago, arrived in Cuba on Sunday following a legislative vote approving his trip on Friday. "I am going to delegate some decisions that until now were mine, signatures and decisions, to vice president Elias Jaua and Jorge Giordani," Chavez said during a televised cabinet meeting before his departure. Chavez, 56, said doctors have found no more malignant cells in his body following earlier cancer surgery.

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Reagan Celebration Hides Brutal History

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Feb. 06 (News Analysis) - Wilkerson and Parry on Reagan centenary: Many of today's catastrophes can be traced to Reagan's presidency

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Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, Defender of Mexico’s Mayans, Dies at 86

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Julia Preston - Jan. 27 (News) - During his 40 years presiding over a Roman Catholic diocese in Chiapas, Bishop Ruiz cast light on abuses suffered by the Indians and sought to bring them into the church as equals with other Mexicans.

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Mexico police: 7 slain at soccer game

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - Jan. 25 (Breaking News) - (CNN) -- A group of heavily armed gunmen opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others, according to a municipal

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Private Links in Lawmaker's Trip Abroad

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Eric Lipton - Dec. 20 (News) - Using his status as a senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Mr. Rohrabacher cheered his hosts in Honduras by openly challenging the Obama administration’s foreign policy agenda there, then arranged a series of meetings with top Honduran officials, including the president, during which the congressman “enthusiastically promoted” the biofuel company’s plans to perhaps set up operations in Honduras

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Panama Canal closes because of flooding

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By CNN Wire Staff - Dec. 08 (News Report) - Heavy rains and flooding Wednesday prompted the closing of the Panama Canal for only the third time in its storied 96-year history. Officials closed the canal around noon and were hoping to reopen it by Wednesday evening, Fernando Lemos, spokesman for the Panama Canal administrator, said. "The situation might get better in the next few hours," Lemos said, "but there is no exact time as to when the canal will open again." Lemos said most of the heavy rain was in the Chagres River area, causing water behind the Gatun Dam -- which creates Lake Gatun, a significant part of the canal -- to rise.

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U.S. infected Guatemalans for STD tests

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Bob Stein - Nov. 05 (Special Report) - The United States revealed on Friday that the government conducted medical experiments in the 1940s in which doctors infected soldiers, prisoners and mental patients in Guatemala with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.

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US-Trained Cartel Terrorises Mexico

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Chris Arsenault - Oct. 20 (News) - Some of the cartel's initial members were elite Mexican troops, trained in the early 1990s by America’s 7th Special Forces Group or "snake eaters" at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, a former US special operations commander has told Al Jazeera. “They were given map reading courses, communications, standard special forces training, light to heavy weapons, machine guns and automatic weapons,” says Craig Deare, the former special forces commander who is now a professor at the US National Defence University.

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Rescue May Redeem a Troubled Past for Chilean City

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Simon Romero - Oct. 15 (News) - In the predawn hours of Oct. 17, 1973 — 37 years before the mine rescue, almost to the day — military personnel murdered 16 men near here, including some who worked for Chile’s state mining company.

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Drill breaks through to trapped Chilean miners

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Oct. 09 (Breaking News) - Men expected to be pulled to suface starting Wednesday.

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Chile president predicts rescue of miners by Oct. 15

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Oct. 04 (News) - Chile's president said Monday that his government is "very close" to pulling 33 trapped miners to safety and he hopes to be there in person to see the rescue before leaving on a trip to Europe.

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Dramatic Video of a Standoff in Ecuador

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robert Mackey - Oct. 01 (Breaking News) - On Thursday, Ecuador's president shouted to rebellious police officers: "Gentlemen, if you want to kill the president, here he is! Kill me if you want to!"

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The former guerrilla set to be the world's most powerful woman

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Hugh O'Shaughnessy - Sep. 29 (News Report) - The world's most powerful woman will start coming into her own next weekend. Stocky and forceful at 63, this former leader of the resistance to a Western-backed military dictatorship (which tortured her) is preparing to take her place as President of Brazil.

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In Guillen’s Strong Words, Mets See a Nugget of Truth

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Waldstein - Aug. 03 (News) - Beltran, like many of the rest of the 15 active Mets born outside the continental United states, sees some validity in what Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen said Sunday when he claimed Asian players were afforded preferential treatment. Why, Guillen wondered aloud, do Asian players get interpreters but Spanish-speaking players do not, especially at the lower levels of the minor leagues?

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Mexican Immigrants: How Many Come? How Many Leave?

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pew Research - By Jeffrey Passel, D'Vera Cohn - Jul. 22 (Research) - The flow of immigrants from Mexico to the United States has declined sharply since mid-decade, but there is no evidence of an increase during this period in the number of Mexican-born migrants returning home from the U.S., according to a new analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of government data from both countries.

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Latin America’s Economies Surge Forward

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Simon Romero - Jul. 01 (News Report) - While the recovery remains fragile in the United States and Europe, Latin America is benefiting from strong commodity demand and economic measures taken in the past.

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China pours its wealth into Latin America

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Rory Carroll - Apr. 19 (News) - Once almost invisible in Latin America, China has seen its trade here rise from $10bn a year in 2000 to well over $100bn today. Latin officials are rolling out the red carpet to Chinese delegations and hopping on planes not only to Beijing but also Guangzhou, Nanking and Shanghai. Unlike the Russians, who grab attention by sending warships to visit anti-US leaders, such as Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, but struggle to deliver economic deals, the Chinese are all business. They are importing soy from Argentina, copper from Chile, iron ore from Brazil and zinc from Peru, and export clothes, cars and electronic equipment across the region. The trade helped Latin America to weather the global economic crisis, but there is concern about a "neo-colonial" pattern in which the region's commodities are sucked abroad while industry loses out to cheap imports aided by China's undervalued currency. When Argentina accused China of dumping goods, Beijing bared its teeth and banned Argentine soya oil, citing safety concerns.

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Latin American leaders look to China

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Naomi Mapstone - Apr. 08 (News) - China’s threat to halt soya oil imports to Argentina underscores the downside of Latin America’s increasing reliance on the 1.3bn-strong nation amid a prolonged downturn in the US, said Mauricio Cárdenas, director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution, on Wednesday.

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Copenhagen was a step backwards and undid good work done since Kyoto

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Pablo Solón Romero - Mar. 19 (News) - Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to ?betray its people? In the aftermath of the Copenhagen climate conference , those who defended the widely condemned outcome tended to talk about it as a "step in the right direction". This was always a tendentious argument, given that tackling climate change can not be addressed by half measures. We can?t make compromises with nature. Bolivia, however, believed that Copenhagen marked a backwards step, undoing the work built on since the climate talks in Kyoto. That is why, against strong pressure from industrialised countries, we and other developing nations refused to sign the Copenhagen accord and why we are hosting an international ...

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Hugo Chávez 'terrorist link' sparks diplomatic row between Spain and Venezuela

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Giles Tremlett - Mar. 02 (News) - A Spanish judge has accused the Venezuelan government of involvement with the Basque terrorist group Eta A Spanish judge today accused the government of president Hugo Chávez in Venezuela of involvement with the Basque terrorist group Eta, sparking a major diplomatic row between the two countries. The allegations, made in a court document by investigating magistrate Eloy Velasco, said that the Chávez government had acted as an intermediary between Eta and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group. "There is evidence in this case which shows the Venezuelan government?s co-operation in the illegal association between Farc and Eta," the magistrate said as he issued international arrest warrants for six alleged Eta ...

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Chile counts cost as tsunami ebbs

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 28 (News Report) - Chile's coastal towns have suffered severe damage in the quake Chile has begin to count the cost of its deadly 8.8 magnitude earthquake as nations around the Pacific eased their fears of a devastating tsunami. The quake, early on Saturday morning,

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Venezuela oil 'may double Saudis'

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 23 (News Report) - A new US assessment of Venezuela's oil reserves could give the country double the supplies of Saudi Arabia. Scientists working for the US Geological Survey say Venezuela's Orinoco belt region holds twice as much petroleum as previously thought. The

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