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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 00:00
"We are not rejecting U.S. aid. But the aid is not going to the coca farmers, who are prepared to produce other products and leave the coca leaf behind"
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela's first satellite, named after independence hero Simon Bolivar, is for broadcast and telecommunications purposes and is due to be launched from China in November
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 00:00
Strikes and protests are taking place in five of Bolivia's nine provinces against President Evo Morales's plans to redistribute natural gas revenues
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 00:00
Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza calls on federal authorities to reform their strategy after 13 people are killed in a weekend shooting
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 00:00
The film follows the efforts of a Chilean judge, Juan Guzman Tapia, to bring the dictator Augusto Pinochet to justice for some of the crimes committed by his regime
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 00:00
The United States must rachet up its support for Mexico in its fight. Another half-hearted attempt has been made with the near-sighted Merida Initiative
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela's government said Sunday that it will ship gasoline to neighboring Colombia in an attempt to slow cross-border smuggling of cheap Venezuelan fuel
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 00:00
These "semi-submersibles," which exhibit some of the same characteristics as military submarines, mark a significant advancement in the ability of drug smugglers to slip past coastal defenses
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 00:00
Fernandez said a shaky U.S. economy and rising fuel and food prices would bring his country economic hardship, and he asked a joint session of Congress to approve US$210 million in loans for farmers
Monday, August 18, 2008 - 00:00
Fernandez has since been coping with fallout from the stumbling U.S. economy and high global oil and food prices