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Argentina’s embattled president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, addressed thousands of supporters at a rally in Buenos Aires, two days after her economic policies prompted nationwide protests.
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Colombian peasants devoted 27 percent more land to growing coca last year, the United Nations reported Wednesday, calling the increase "a surprise and a shock" given intense efforts to eradicate cocaine's raw ingredient
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The amount of land devoted to production of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, has grown at a dramatic pace in Colombia despite a huge American-funded counter-drug program of aerial fumigation and aggressive interdiction
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Colombian cocaine production edged down last year despite an increase in crops used to make the drug, showing that law enforcement efforts have reduced the efficiency of the business, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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The legislators were part of the group of hostages held by the FARC with the aim of swapping them for hundreds of imprisoned insurgents.
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MEXICO CITY - A group of 18 Cubans crossed into Texas in good health more than a week after heavily armed masked men seized them from immigration agents in southern Mexico, the Attorney General's office said Thursday.
The hijacking of a bus carrying th
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The Cuban government has designated a Cuban army colonel as the new representative to regularly shuttle to the fence-line here from Havana for meetings with U.S. officials, the Navy base commander disclosed Wednesday.
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Ever since Raul Castro took the reins of power in Cuba, there has been a big stir about ''changes'' on the island. Mind you, Cubans are merely getting what the state had no right to deny them in the first place, such as owning computers and cellphones. Bu
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''Global growth is the big story of our times,'' says Fareed Zakaria in his must-read book, The Post-American World. His subtitle -- The Rise of the Rest -- tells the story of why we're at the cusp of a truly global order. Countries all over are growing,
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BERN, SWITZERLAND -- Swiss authorities will hand over to the Mexican government $74 million from bank accounts linked to the brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Justice Ministry said Wednesday.