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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
Opposition leaders on Monday characterized the victories as a product of the frustrations urban Venezuelans feel with mounting crime and other social ills
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 00:00
Earlier this year, a squad from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, took over the Dona Pancha bar in this town 70 miles from the border with Colombia
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
The report, compiled by prominent former policy-makers from the United States and Latin America and scheduled for release on Monday by the Brookings Institution, called on the new administration to put Latin America at the center of its foreign policy
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
Renowned as Colombia's most violent city, Buenaventura is on the front line of Colombia's drug war, a choke point for lucrative cocaine smuggling routes
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
Officials say DMG was the largest in a wave of scams that has swept Colombia, where a well-developed smuggling industry has nurtured some of the world's craftiest swindlers
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
The company, however, was on the verge of collapse. This month, Colombian authorities closed it down in a nationwide sting operation against pyramid schemes
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
The opposition, however, chalked up some important wins, including the mayor's office in the capital, Caracas, and the governorship in two populous states
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez's allies win in 17 of the 22 states but lose the capital to the opposition
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela's opposition has made gains in regional polls, but President Hugo Chavez's allies have held on to 17 of the country's 22 governorships
Monday, November 24, 2008 - 00:00
The opposition held onto the two states it won at the last regional elections four years ago and wrested from the government control of the state metropolitan area around Caracas as well as the mayoralty of the capital