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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) 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) 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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(AP) Paraguay exports enough soy, wheat and corn to feed 80 million people, more than 10 times its population, and its rivers provide abundant fresh water. But 14 percent of its children suffer chronic malnutrition, and many others lack of clean ...
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(AP) Argentina's Qom Indians have asked President Cristina Fernandez for help in recovering some of their ancestral land.Justices met with Qom leader Felix Diaz and other tribal members but the governor of Formosa province, Gildo Insfran, was a no-show at the ...
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(AP) At least nine Colombian soldiers were killed in an attack with homemade explosives by the country's second-largest leftist rebel band, the military said Wednesday.The apparent ambush of a patrol by the National Liberation Army, or ELN, occurred in a rural ...
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(AP) Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested a man suspected of raping at least 60 women in the past two years.Police say 23-year-old Jonathan Parra confessed to raping women ages 16 to 28 after picking them up on his motorcycle ...
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(AP) Scientists say one of Costa Rica's largest volcanos is spewing clouds of ash and gas, setting off a small-scale evacuation.Park rangers activated a green alert, the lowest of three levels, after the 10,958-foot (3,340-meter) Turrialba volcano rumbled loudly and emitted ...
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(AP) A former Cayman Islands premier who faces 11 criminal charges is heading into elections with a chance of returning to leadership of the British Overseas Territory.McKeeva Bush's United Democratic Party is one of just two parties with a distant chance ...
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(AP) People who live in the hometown of former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla aren't happy about plans to bury him there.Videla died Friday at age 87 while serving a life term for crimes against humanity during his leadership of a ...
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(AP) Bands of young people hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police outside Chile's congress Tuesday after thousands of students and workers staged a protest march before President Sebastian Pinera's final state of the nation speech.The president was not exposed to ...
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(AP) A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto Rico.Puma Energy Caribe LLC says 56 gas stations across the island will participate in the program starting Wednesday. ...
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(AP) Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.All three men are in their 80s now, and their case ...
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(AP) A Truth Commission investigating human rights abuses under the nation's military dictatorship says that those it finds guilty of torture could be brought to trial.A 1979 amnesty law protects civilians and military personnel from liability for politically motivated crimes committed ...
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(AP) Spain's development minister is urging Brazil to hire some of the engineers that her own economy doesn't have room for.Brazil is beefing up its infrastructure ahead of soccer's World Cup and the Olympics. And Minister Ana Pastor says Spanish engineers ...
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