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Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
The measure now goes to a vote by the full Senate, where the president has an ample majority
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
He made the remark with racist undertones when he announced a social housing project in Rio de Janeiro that would have a swimming pool
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
The president ends his second consecutive term in 2010 and would not be eligible to run again until 2014
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lashed out once more Wednesday against rich nations for provoking the world's economic woes
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
Obama asked Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to convene a meeting of the South American union, Unasur, for early on Saturday because he wouldn't have time to meet each of the region's leaders individually
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
Congress needs to act on Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr.'s suggestion to restore its ban on the sale of military-style assault weapons
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
The only effective strategy is to defund the drug cartels, and the only way to do that is to eliminate the multi-billion-dollar profit caused by the drug trade's black-market status
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
Little attention or funding is allocated to what some anti-narcotics experts consider the crux of the issue: the lack of an efficient, incorruptible Mexican law-enforcement apparatus
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
On Mr. Obama's agenda as he meets with President Felipe Calderon will be the economy, a trade-related dispute between the two countries over whether Mexican trucks can travel American roads to deliver goods to the United States, energy and immigration
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
This intense focus on security has come at the expense of the more pressing needs of the Latin region, namely helping to develop its economic and social structures and raising living standards