Associated Press
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez's government is sending 15,000 soldiers to the border with Colombia, saying the military buildup is needed to increase security, combat drug trafficking and root out paramilitary groups.
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Five police officers and five other suspects were arrested Thursday in the investigation into the assassination of an army general who had been appointed police chief of this northern Mexican town over the weekend.
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"We are living a security crisis," said Gov. Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz of Nuevo Leon, the border state that includes Monterrey and its suburbs, shortly after the killings. He vowed not to yield to the gangsters.
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"This means that only people with money, and a lot of it, will have access to environmental justice," said Gustavo Alanis of the Mexican Center for Environmental Law.
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Peru's defense minister says Shining Path rebels attacked a military outpost in the country's coca-producing highlands, killing one soldier and wounding three.
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The European Union's development commissioner wants Cuba to show signs it's serious about protecting fundamental human rights.
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Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.
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Los nuevos comandantes del ejercito, la armada y la fuerza aerea asumieron sus cargos el jueves, un dia despues de que el presidente Fernando Lugo relevara a los anteriores jefes y despues que rechazara vigorosamente cualquier peligro de golpe de estado p
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 00:00
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 00:00
Estados Unidos entrego equipamiento para la formacion de un Batallon de Asalto Antiterrorista de las fuerzas armadas a un costo de 1,39 millon de dolares, pero aclaro que "las autoridades militares paraguayas tomaran la decision de como haran las ope