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Venezuelan food producers on Tuesday protested 26 laws President Hugo Chavez pushed through just before his special legislative powers expired, saying their restrictions on the economic freedom of businesses and consumers are unconstitutional
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Decrees issued by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez were deemed unconstitutional by the opposition, but prospects for successful resistance look slim
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The government of Iran agreed to build and equip a $2 million medical facility in Nicaragua as part of a deal the Iranian government signed with Nicaragua's foreign minister
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Nor is Mr. Chavez the only one. The government of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua is also drifting into Tehran's orbit
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for unity as tension rises ahead of Sunday's vote on whether he and state governors should stay in office.
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A Cuban political prisoner who sewed his mouth shut last month as part of a hunger strike was forced to end his protest when prison authorities undid his stitches, human-rights activists said Wednesday.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for unity as tension rises ahead of Sunday's vote on whether he and state governors should stay in office
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Long ago, AIDS specialists the world over essentially shelved the terms “gay” and “homosexual” in connection with the epidemic and began referring instead to “men who have sex with men.” No matter what label such men apply to themselves — ga
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Mexicans struggling with increasingly gruesome crimes at home devoted the least attention in recent memory to the execution of one of their citizens in Texas.
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As many as 5,000 Nicaraguan men -- most of them indigenous Miskitos -- risk their lives each year in Nicaragua's commercial lobster industry, taking on the increasingly perilous task of plucking ''red gold'' from the Caribbean. Amid widespread overexploit