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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Leftist rebels fighting Colombia's U.S.-backed military have increasingly found refuge in Venezuela, where they get weapons, food, medical treatment and a smuggling route
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Some 160 Brazilian troops have been sent to the Amazon to join hundreds of police officers involved in efforts to tackle illegal deforestation
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Pundits who had expected an infusion of youth into Cuba's Paleolithic hierarchy were roundly disappointed
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Arbour justified her top grades for Cuba by, among other things, pointing to its expected signature of two international human rights treaties. What those paper commitments will mean, however, are questionable at best
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Evidently, Cuba's leaders believe ''change'' means a fading octogenarian giving way to a bunch of septuagenarians -- that and nothing more
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Many in a newer generation of exiles favor loosening travel restrictions and defrosting diplomatic relations
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Many of the new rights, however, would not apply to suspected members of the criminal mafias, who could be held for up to 40 days without charges. The bill would also insert in the constitution a liberal definition of "organized crime"
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Military archives spanning nearly four decades of civil war in Guatemala will be opened to the public, the country's President Alvaro Colom has announced
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
The evolution of the program into a symbol of Mr. Chavez’s political movement across the region illustrates how Venezuela’s leader is intensifying efforts to lift his government’s profile
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 00:00
Castro might have wanted someone with a mastery of government and party machinery that will help him implement his agenda