The New York Times
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 00:00
In 2002, 80 families led by the Landless Rural Workers Movement, better known by its Portuguese initial MST, occupied Chafik's property in the Jequitinhonha River valley, one of the poorest regions of Brazil. Two years later, gunmen opened fire on their c
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Pinera's comments on Saturday backing his former labor minister Evelyn Matthei mark his most public show of support for the candidate struggling in the shadows of popular front-runner Michelle Bachelet.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 00:00
The top diplomats of Venezuela and Guyana agreed to meet to discuss the fate of an oil research ship seized in disputed waters.
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As authorities nab cartel bosses and break up chains of command, hundreds of lower-level gunmen and traffickers are desperate for income and looking for income in new places.
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Washington provided more than $2 billion in assistance to Colombia's military when most of the killings occurred, but U.S. lawmakers are currently withholding at least $10 million in military aid over objections to the new law.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 00:00
Rousseff, a pragmatic leftist expected to seek a second term next October, won 42 percent support in a hypothetical matchup against Senator Aecio Neves and Pernambuco Governor Eduardo Campos.
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A U.S.-chartered oil exploration ship seized by the Venezuelan navy in Caribbean waters disputed with neighboring Guyana was escorted into port at Venezuela's Margarita Island.
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Valencia mayor Edgardo Parra, a member of the ruling Socialist Party, was picked up at his home late on Saturday by the national intelligence agency Sebin.
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Honduras ordered 1,000 military police onto the streets of its most violent cities on Monday.
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Guyana awarded Anadarko Petroleum a deep-water, exploration license in June last year for a block named Roraima.