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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 00:00
"Ninety percent of those we killed were innocent. The other commanders were angry at me for saying that because it de-legitimizes the AUC"
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 00:00
ASUNCION (Reuters) - A former Roman Catholic bishop who once led anti-government marches will take over as president of Paraguay on Friday, promising to end deeply ingrained corruption and give land to the poor.
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<br />Fernando Lugo, known as "the bishop of the poor," looks like a gray-bearded social worker.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 00:00
Scientists from Duke University said a new study revealed a Texas-size chunk of rain forest stretching across Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and western Brazil has been approved for petroleum exploration and production.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 00:00
Elected with about 41 percent of the vote in a three-way race that ended 61 years of authoritarian leadership by the Colorado Party, the former Catholic "bishop of the poor" needs the help of his opponents to get anything done.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 00:00
Wednesday, pledging to work together against anti-Semitism and open up channels of communication despite strong differences on Mideast politics.
Both Chavez and leaders of the World Jewish Congress called the meeting a success.
"There may be so
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - 00:00
Figures for asylum decisions are unavailable, but immigration lawyers hazard a guess that in the past, dozens were granted every year to gay Mexicans. The Department of Homeland Security does not track asylum by categories such as religious affiliation or
Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 00:00
Despite drawing more than 60 percent of the vote, according to partial counts from polling stations, Morales appears to have not fundamentally changed the prevailing political deadlock in this Andean nation
Friday, August 8, 2008 - 00:00
The Ecuadoran soldiers who pursue the guerrillas operate along a 366-mile-long border, most of it marked by rivers that can be crossed at any point by canoe
Friday, August 8, 2008 - 00:00
"If you hear shots in the night -- pow, pow, pow-- don't leave your hammock. Everything will be okay," he said
Friday, August 8, 2008 - 00:00
At a Capitol Hill event to launch the report, Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez, D-Texas, regretted how immigration advocates "lost our way" by allowing opponents to define immigration as something to be deterred rather than welcomed. Without the U.S. bu