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Friday, October 24, 2008 - 00:00
The Miami trial of a Venezuelan entrepreneur who grew rich doing business with Hugo Chavezn has exposed how some top government officials have profited from a corrosive web of corruption in the oil-rich country
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
At least two indigenous protesters died during marches earlier this week. The government says tests show they were killed when a home-made bomb exploded
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
Betancourt spoke in Oviedo, a northern city where she will receive a humanitarian award Friday from a foundation named for Crown Prince Felipe
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
Among those arrested in Colombia were three people suspected of coordinating drug smuggling to send some of their profits to groups like Hezbollah, the office said
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
"Everybody is talking about the race," said Marta Lagos, who surveys Latin America for the Latin Barometer poll, based in Chile
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
Preliminary data from the latest Latinobarometro poll, taken in 18 countries over the past month and published exclusively by The Economist, show that 29% of respondents think an Obama victory would be better for their country, against only 8% favouring M
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
A Colombian lottery seller has printed Obama's face on tickets hoping to snag attention while celebrating Afro-Colombians with a nod to the Democrat's African heritage
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has made an unusual appearance - on lottery tickets in the South American country of Colombia
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
"McCain has the look of somebody who's standoffish, unpleasant and tiresome, a copy of (US President) George W. Bush. We'd never use him."
Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 00:00
The oil discovery has renewed debate over whether a crude-thirsty U.S. should loosen its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and let yanqui firms join the drilling, which is taking place fewer than 100 miles off U.S. shores.