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Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
Speaking on state television, Mr Chavez used offensive language to heap scorn on the opposition's surprise victory
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Manuel Marulanda, leader of a Colombian rebel group that holds hundreds of hostages, to free French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
A female guerrilla deserted Colombia's largest rebel army and carried a 4-year-old hostage on a 24-hour jungle trek back to his family
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
"I am really surprised that five days later, there has been no outcry in the world about this," Santos tells U.S. News
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made a direct appeal to Colombian rebels to release Ingrid Betancourt
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
Colombia said on Wednesday it will not participate in this weekend's inauguration of the Bank of the South, a development bank proposed by leftist Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he will step down when his current term expires in 2013, following the defeat of his reform proposals
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
Morales said Thursday that he delivered a bill to the Bolivian Congress calling for a series of popular votes -- one to decide whether he will remain president, and others to determine the fates of each of the country's nine governors
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
Washington's $1.4 billion multiyear Merida Initiative for Mexico and Central America -- intended to "break the power and impunity of drug and criminal organizations that threaten the health and public safety" in the region -- is very real
Friday, December 7, 2007 - 00:00
Fernandez's first concern has to be the economy -- to address the systemic weaknesses that her predecessor left unattended and that are now emerging as threats to further growth