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Fidel Castro turns 83 with economy on his mind
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro marked his 83rd birthday on Thursday with a gloomy warning about the global economic crisis, which is hitting his country hard, and a vow to "carry on."
Aug 13, 2009, 22:35
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De facto leader says there was no coup in Honduras
Honduras' de facto leader tried to persuade world leaders on Monday that he was not brought to power by a coup amid signs that U.S. backing for ousted President Manuel Zelaya may be waning.
Jul 27, 2009, 20:25
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Vote leaves Mexico reforms in opposition's hands
A worse-than-expected congressional election defeat for Mexico's ruling conservatives has left President Felipe Calderon's economic reform agenda firmly in the hands of the opposition.
Jul 6, 2009, 21:44
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Guantanamo captives get satellite TV, Sudoku puzzles
The U.S. military is rigging up satellite television service and distributing Sudoku puzzles in Guantanamo prison cells even as the Obama administration works toward a goal of emptying them of detainees.
Jun 1, 2009, 15:38
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Mexico sending 5,000 troops to besieged border city
Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country's most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a brutal war between drug gangs aided by corrupt police.
Feb 26, 2009, 20:04
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Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 61 former detainees from its military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appear to have returned to terrorism since their release from custody.
Jan 13, 2009, 20:05
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Mexico's Calderon leaves door open to NAFTA discussions
Mexican President Felipe Calderon left the door open on Tuesday to discussion of possible changes in the North American Free Trade Agreement a day after talks with U.S. President-elect Barack Obama.
Jan 13, 2009, 19:48
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Costa Rica earthquake deaths seen around 40
The final death toll in Costa Rica from a strong earthquake last week will likely rise to around 40 after an emergency official on Monday scaled back the number of people missing.
Jan 13, 2009, 00:25
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Al Qaeda media man waged "jihad by pen," U.S. says
An accused al Qaeda media director waged "jihad by word and pen" and made a video aimed at overcoming trainees' resistance to carrying out suicide attacks, a prosecutor in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal said on Tuesday.
Oct 28, 2008, 17:40
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Mexico captures Tijuana drug cartel leader
Mexican security forces have arrested drug cartel leader Eduardo Arellano Felix, one of the international traffickers most sought by the United States, after a shootout in the violent border city of Tijuana, the government said on Sunday.
Oct 26, 2008, 22:09
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Vicious killings escalate in Mexico drug war
Bodies are cut up and dumped in acid. Victims are stripped naked and hung from bridges. Others have their tongues cut out before being murdered -- Mexican gangs are using horrifying methods to outdo each other in an already harrowing drugs war.
Oct 7, 2008, 23:38
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Ex-president of Guatemala extradited for corruption
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, accused of fraud and corruption at the end of his term in 2004, was extradited on Tuesday from Mexico to face charges in his home country.
Oct 7, 2008, 23:26
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Regional leaders meet over Bolivian crisis
Bolivian President Evo Morales arrived in Chile on Monday for an emergency summit of South American leaders aimed at helping end the political turmoil gripping his impoverished country.
Sep 15, 2008, 21:19
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Haiti could face new food crisis after storms
Haiti faces a deepening crisis after storms destroyed much of the impoverished country's rice crop, sparking fears of a repeat of the deadly food riots earlier this year that brought down the government.
Sep 15, 2008, 20:44
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Peru arrests 20 over ties to Mexican drug cartel
Peruvian police have arrested 20 people suspected of working for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel and seized 2.5 tonnes of cocaine hidden in boat bumpers, Peru's interior ministry said on Monday.
Sep 9, 2008, 00:29
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Panama court overturns anti-Castro plot pardons
Panama's Supreme Court has overturned a 2004 presidential pardon of anti-Castro activist Luis Posada Carriles and three other Cubans accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro in 2000, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Jul 1, 2008, 23:57
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Cuba breaks up sit-in, arrests women dissidents
A group of Cuban women peacefully demonstrating for the release of their jailed husbands were roughed up by a mob and arrested on Monday near the offices of President Raul Castro.
Apr 21, 2008, 16:12
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Cuba's Raul Castro faces reforms challenge
President Raul Castro starts work as Cuba's first new leader in almost half a century with a cadre of old guard allies to help him guarantee continuity in a country eager for a measure of change.
Feb 25, 2008, 16:05
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Yoruba gods protect Fidel Castro: priest
Yoruba gods protect ailing Fidel Castro from witchcraft and want to see him continue leading Cuba, the first priest of the Santeria religion to be elected to parliament said on Monday.
Jan 21, 2008, 22:06
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Mexican army battles drug gang near U.S. border
Mexican troops and police fought a fierce battle with suspected drug hitmen armed with grenades in a town near the U.S. border on Monday, and one police officer was killed, witnesses and Mexican media said.
Jan 8, 2008, 01:23
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Colombia rules out more foreign hostage missions
Colombia will allow no more international missions seeking the release of hostages held by leftist rebels after a Venezuela-led plan dissolved in a flurry of accusations last week, the government said on Monday.
Jan 8, 2008, 00:39
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Colombia rebels keep hostages and Chavez waiting
Marxist rebels kept hold of three hostages in Colombia on Monday despite a deal to free them after years in secret camps, worrying Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez who negotiated the handover with the guerrillas.
Dec 31, 2007, 17:22
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Crime-hit Mexico border city digs up unknown bodies
One night in May 1994, former U.S. naval officer Saul Sanchez and his wife Abigail were getting ready for the theater in this northern Mexican city when armed men banged on their door and dragged them away. They were never seen again.
Dec 17, 2007, 23:34
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At least 19 killed in Mexico truck accident
A dump truck packed with coffee pickers skidded off a road in the Mexican state of Puebla and plunged into a shallow ravine, killing at least 19 people, a Red Cross official said on Monday.
Dec 17, 2007, 23:05
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Chavez vote defeat tests his Venezuela revolution
President Hugo Chavez crashed to an unprecedented defeat on Monday as Venezuelans voted down his bid to run for re-election indefinitely and accelerate his socialist revolution in the major U.S. oil supplier.
Dec 3, 2007, 22:31
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Justice catches up with two more Pol Pot henchmen
Cambodia's "Killing Fields" court charged former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary and his wife on Monday with crimes against humanity, the latest members of Pol Pot's inner circle to face justice.
Nov 12, 2007, 14:17
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Cuba remembers Che Guevara 40 years after his fall
Communist Cuba paid tribute on Monday to its poster boy, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, 40 years after the guerrilla fighter was captured and executed in Bolivia.
Oct 8, 2007, 16:46
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Mexico jails soldiers for rape in first civil trial
A Mexican court has sentenced four soldiers to up to 40 years in prison for raping nine women in 2006, the first time troops have been tried in a civilian court, a judge said on Tuesday.
Oct 2, 2007, 20:24
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Cocaine-laden plane crashes in Mexico jungle
An airliner stuffed with dozens of sacks of Colombian cocaine crashed in the jungle of southern Mexico on Monday, police said.
Sep 24, 2007, 23:19
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Castro turns 81 out of sight but still present
As Fidel Castro turns 81 on Monday, Cuba watchers see the ailing leader fading into a role equivalent to China's Mao Zedong as his successors grapple with the need to reform the economy while preserving the Communist state.
Aug 13, 2007, 17:41
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Mexican tycoon loses election in border state
A Mexican billionaire with a gambling empire who is accused of links to drug cartels lost a gubernatorial election in a state bordering California, results showed on Monday.
Aug 6, 2007, 23:17
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Raul Castro lifts hopes of economic relief in Cuba
One year after taking over from his ailing brother as Cuba's leader, Raul Castro is raising hopes of reforms to relieve economic inefficiencies and food shortages.
Jul 31, 2007, 20:11
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Drug traffickers eye Guatemala elections
In towns along Guatemala's drug corridor between El Salvador and Mexico, drug traffickers flush with money see this year's elections as a new way to extend their power.
Jul 9, 2007, 20:39
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Bolivia drafts plans to evacuate flood-hit city
The Bolivian government is drawing up plans to evacuate the northeastern city of Trinidad, which has over 90,000 inhabitants, if devastating flooding worsens, President Evo Morales said on Sunday.
Feb 26, 2007, 14:45
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Body parts found in Acapulco as killings continue
A man's chopped up body was discovered in the Mexican city of Acapulco dumped in plastic garbage bags, police said on Sunday, in the latest grisly killing to mar the once glamorous Pacific resort.
Feb 5, 2007, 10:24
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