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at least half a dozen officers have been reported dead across Mexico in the last two days.
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Oportunidades, which now benefits 25m people in 5m households at an annual cost of $4.5bn, is one of the first large-scale examples of a “conditional cash transfer” scheme
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By any measure, Evo’s victory in Sunday’s ‘revocatoria’ vote was a political landslide.
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Hernando Calvo Ospina’s recent book, Colombia, Laboratorio de Embrujos: Democracia y Terrorismo del Estado is the most important study of Colombian politics in recent decades
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Colombians on Wednesday may see the beginning of a new crisis between the Supreme Court of Justice and the government of President Alvaro Uribe.
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Patients can now seek treatment under Argentine health programs. The law also prohibits the media from releasing diets that aren't backed by a health professional and requires that high-calorie foods carry a warning label.
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Opposition governors agreed on Wednesday to meet with President Evo Morales on solving Bolivia's political crisis, just hours after being no-shows at negotiations at the presidential palace.
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Scientists from Duke University said a new study revealed a Texas-size chunk of rain forest stretching across Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and western Brazil has been approved for petroleum exploration and production.
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No official celebrations were planned, although Cuban workers sent the former president greetings in the state news media and a group of Santeria priests planned a drum ceremony in his honor.
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An official in the Mexican attorney's general office said a supervisor and five agents are thought to have passed tips to smugglers in northern Sinaloa state for about three months.