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(AP) Venezuelan authorities have released a dissent ex-general who was jailed on charges of inciting unrest after the country's disputed presidential election.Retired Gen. Antonio Rivero said he would "take care of my health" as he was freed late Friday.Opposition leaders said ...
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(AP) It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976, and the bloodletting was already beginning.I had trekked out to isolated Neuquen province looking for Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, the ...
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(AP) Giant leatherback turtles, some weighing half as much as a small car, drag themselves out of the ocean and up the sloping shore on the northeastern coast of Trinidad while villagers await wearing dimmed headlamps in the dark. Their black ...
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(AP) Brazil is using more than 20,000 troops along its borders with 10 South American nations to reinforce security ahead of the Confederations Cup soccer tournament in June.The Defense Ministry says in a statement that 25,000 army, navy and air force ...
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(AP) Three people have been killed and three others injured during a shooting at a gas station in Puerto Rico.Police say several men opened fire on the group early Saturday in the eastern town of Las Piedras. It is unclear what ...
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(AP) Trinidad's finance minister has appointed a new interim board to oversee Caribbean Airlines after announcing that the state-owned company posted losses of more than $70 million.Larry Howai says the board has three months to review the airline's finances and make ...
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(AP) The former premier of the Cayman Islands who faces charges in a corruption probe is denying allegations that he donated $1 million to a Caribbean university to obtain an honorary PhD.McKeeva Bush said in a statement late Friday that he ...
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(AP) In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged ...
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(AP) Mexican authorities say they have seized five boxes filled with cash as part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement by a former governor of southern Tabasco state.Tabasco state prosecutor Fernando Valenzuela says bundles of 500- and 1,000-peso bills were found ...
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(AP) Canada's prime minister has announced a new package of development aid for Peru that environmentalists are viewing warily because it is closely tied to Canadian mining investments in the South American country.Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced aid Wednesday that his ...
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(AP) A legislator in Puerto Rico has submitted a bill that would increase fines and jail time for parents whose children skip classes or drop out of school.Angel Munoz Suarez says fines up to $5,000 and a 12-month jail sentence are ...
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(AP) Argentina's president has announced increases of as much as 35 percent in cash handouts to the poor, students, pregnant women and retirees.President Cristina Fernandez says the programs also will reach nearly 700,000 more children, expanding the social safety net and ...
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(AP) Puerto Rico's tiny island of Culebra has been forever dependent on the U.S. territory for food, jobs and health care, but the territory's governor is cutting some of those strings.Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said this week that the island will ...
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(AP) Relatives of the victims of a nightclub fire that killed 242 people early this year in southern Brazil say little has been done to improve the safety of public gathering places since the tragedy.The relatives met Wednesday in the Brazilian ...
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(AP) The presidents of Colombia, Peru, Chile and Mexico meet in the western city of Cali on Thursday in hopes of completing a nascent trade bloc that looks to the European Union as a model and aims to further open their ...
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