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Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
The funding imbalance in the Bush administration's new anti-drug plan, which would send 10 times as much aid to Mexico as to all seven Central American nations combined, is generating anxiety in Central America
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
Chavez joins a long list of rulers who have dreamed of converting nature into orderly living space for the masses. Among them are Stalin, Mao and Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
Datanalisis , a respected Caracas polling firm that earlier this month was predicting a Chavez win, said that 48 percent of respondents in an opinion survey last week said they would vote "no" to the constitutional amendments, compared with 39 percent wh
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
Banks, shops, schools and public transportation were closed in cities across Bolivia on Wednesday as demonstrators protested a proposed constitutional overhaul
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
Like the Russian leader, Chavez has already used gushing oil revenue, a pliant judiciary, subservient institutions and the galvanizing appeal of vitriolic anti-Americanism to concoct a 21st-century, gulag-free authoritarianism
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
In Caracas, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro showed state television a document that he claimed was written by the unnamed embassy official and was to have been sent to the CIA
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
Arguello, known in the boxing world as "the explosive thin man" and "gentleman of the ring," has his sights on a new title: Mayor of Managua
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
Hugo Chavez could have a shot at becoming president for life if voters approve a sweeping overhaul of the constitution Sunday that would give him unchecked power
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
17 are charged over allegations they conspired with other nations to quell dissent
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Regional vice presidents would spur development, but opponents fear governors and mayors would lose power