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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
The FARC's strategy is to avoid combat situations with the military and concentrate on quick, clean attacks on infrastructure and urban areas.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
The Miami, Florida-based organization accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of "humiliating the press," and said his "incendiary rhetoric" has been adopted by other heads of state in Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia,
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
Recently tensions have grown between the two countries over the refusal of the US Congress to ratify a free trade deal agreed by both sides, as funding for Plan Colombia has been steadily cut in the last two years
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
Mexico set the stage for the first trade war of President Barack Obama's administration by slapping import tariffs on $2.4 billion of U.S. goods in retaliation for a ban of its trucks
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
It makes sense to send the National Guard to the border, with orders to stop the guns going out of the U.S. as well as the drugs coming in
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
"The Mexican cartels are very structured, well armed and organized, and have the power to corrupt"
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
It did not say how much they would fall in 2009, but said the slip would end a decade of sharp growth
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
Funds sent by overseas workers back to Latin America and the Caribbean are expected to drop steeply in 2009, shrinking a crucial source of cash for many families
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
It's time for Latin American leaders to be more up-front about their countries' reality, and to use the opportunity to do things such as slashing subsidies to the rich, reducing military spending and making labor laws more flexible
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
President-elect Mauricio Funes said he wants strong relations with Washington after his party of ex-Marxist guerrillas ousted their right-wing civil war foes