Tag: latin america
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December 06, 2009 12:05 PM EST --
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — "Not one person murdered yesterday," Ciudad Juarez's leading newspaper proclaimed in a banner headline. It was big news in this border city, ground zero in the drug . . .
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December 06, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Evo Morales, a coca-grower at odds with Washington but popular at home for empowering Bolivia's long-suppressed indigenous majority, is expected to coast to easy . . .
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December 05, 2009 10:05 AM EST --
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A top Brazilian official has signaled that Latin America's largest nation may recognize the Honduran candidate who won last weekend's post-coup presidential election.
Dilma . . .
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December 04, 2009 06:05 PM EST --
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Honduran activists have ended five months of daily protests demanding the reinstatement of their president since he was ousted in a coup, say they're moving on now that . . .
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December 04, 2009 06:05 PM EST --
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Alan Garcia denied Thursday that his government invented a tale about murderous fat-thieves to distract from allegations of police death squad killings, saying . . .
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December 05, 2009 01:05 AM EST --
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A retired army officer has been convicted and sentenced to 53 years in prison in the forced disappearance of civilians during Guatemala's civil war.
The convictions for the . . .
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December 05, 2009 01:01 AM EST --
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A pair of shootouts between troops and gunmen in northern Mexico have killed 13 people, including a bystander and a drug trafficker linked to the killing of a retired army officer. . . .
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December 03, 2009 07:07 PM EST --
HAVANA (AP) — Activists from 32 little-known organizations opposed to Cuba's communist government issued a call for an end to social repression on the island at a Thursday gathering in the home . . .
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December 03, 2009 08:06 PM EST --
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A judge in Guantanamo Bay's war crimes court has denied a request by military prosecutors to expand their case against a Sudanese detainee accused of being a bodyguard . . .
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December 04, 2009 01:05 AM EST --
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their . . .
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December 04, 2009 01:07 PM EST --
CHARAGUA, Bolivia (AP) — In Bolivia's biggest municipality, a scrub-brush expanse of cattle ranches and hardscrabble farms, Sunday's national elections aren't all about Evo Morales.
With Bolivia's . . .
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December 04, 2009 02:05 PM EST --
SAO PAULO (AP) — At least 20 people have died in mudslides triggered by heavy rains across southern Brazil as rivers rose to rooftops and thousands were left homeless Friday.
Streets in South . . .
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December 04, 2009 02:05 PM EST --
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Thousands of Chileans including President Michelle Bachelet paid their respects Friday to a folk singer who became a martyr of the country's 1973 military coup and whose remains . . .
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December 04, 2009 03:06 PM EST --
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Foreign migrants caught while in Mexico illegally can now at least fight boredom while mourning their bad fortune.
Mexico's National Immigration Institute says it has installed . . .
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December 04, 2009 09:06 PM EST --
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say at least 13 people were killed in two shootouts between troops and gunmen in northern Mexico.
An army official who spoke on condition of anonymity . . .
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December 03, 2009 11:01 PM EST --
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — President Daniel Ortega's attempt to run for re-election has run into a setback in congress.
Lawmakers are refusing to recognize a Supreme Court decision that would allow . . .
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December 04, 2009 11:05 AM EST --
HAVANA (AP) — Highly anticipated immigration negotiations between Cuba and the United States in Havana have been pushed back from this month to February at the communist island's request because . . .
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December 04, 2009 03:06 PM EST --
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Kidnap victims freed from a rehab center in Mexico City said they were snatched from the streets and held in slave-like conditions — beaten, robbed and forced to work 16 . . .
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November 29, 2009 07:06 PM EST --
GUATEMALA (AP) — They're called "calaqueros" — skullmongers — and they make a living off Guatemala City's infamously high murder rate.
They chase ambulances, wait outside morgues or . . .
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December 01, 2009 06:08 AM EST --
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — They had planned a wedding day like Latin America has never seen.
But as Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre were being fitted for their tuxedos an Argentine judge . . .
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