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Monday, April 27, 2009 - 00:00
Earlier this year the Colombian government revealed that it intends to carry out a large scale modernisation of its military worth some $4 billion
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Biologists in the field have direct encounters with heavily armed smugglers. Ecotourists to the region's biodiversity hotspots, a legal and lucrative economic lifeblood, are deterred by drug violence
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An early test of just how much Mr. Obama will push trade in addition to the other issues on his agenda -- like health care, climate change and financial regulation -- will be whether he prods Congress soon to ratify a free-trade agreement with Panama
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A British intelligence officer undermined a large anti-drugs operation in South America by leaving a computer memory stick on a bus
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President on course to be first leader in a century to win two consecutive terms after exit polls give him 54% of the vote
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Early results give Correa about 50 percent of vote
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Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa celebrated victory on Monday after exit polls showed voters had handed him a second term
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President Rafael Correa appeared headed for victory in elections on Sunday as the old political establishment was unable to muster a coherent alternative
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U.S. residents without family in Cuba are still generally barred from going to the island, but many Cuban Americans here said they want that to change, too -- out of fairness and a desire to see American tourists flood the island
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 00:00
The officials said informal meetings were being planned between the State Department and Cuban diplomats in the United States to determine whether the two governments could open formal talks