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Monday, August 31, 2009 - 00:00
The Obama Administration dropped the latest gift into Chavez's lap this summer when, in a manner most Latin governments call less than transparent, it completed negotiations with Colombia to let the U.S. military use seven military bases there
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 00:00
Quietly and with little ado, Mexico last week enacted a law to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all major narcotics, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and crystal meth.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 00:00
Quietly and with little ado, Mexico last week enacted a law to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all major narcotics, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and crystal meth
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 00:00
All 700 of Mexico's federal customs agents, a club notorious for corruption and a less than robust devotion to duty, were booted and replaced with a new force that's two times larger and apparently many times more professional.
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 00:00
The damage they do to society is well-known, but drug traffickers, it turns out, also aren't the most environmentally-minded campers.
Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 00:00
Uribe is scrambling to explain his less - than - transparent decision to allow the U.S. military to use air bases on Colombian soil to track drug traffickers and even rebels
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 00:00
The 69 - year - old president and Nobel Peace Prize winner said in a statement that he was quarantined at home and is being treated with the anti - flu medicine oseltamivir.
Monday, August 10, 2009 - 00:00
Obama concedes that one major problem in stopping the traffic is the strength of U.S. gun laws — and the gun lobby supporting them
Friday, July 31, 2009 - 00:00
The longer the stalemate continues, the closer the government gets to achieving its goal of holding a new presidential election in November
Monday, July 20, 2009 - 00:00
The nightly ritual of lighting the trees (in this case, metal poles decorated with strings of lights and various other ornaments) serves as an eternal celebration of the Sandinista government's victory over the energy deficit inherited from the previous a