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08/19/2005 |
Ecuadorian migrants' tragedy at the sea |
| Colombian and Ecuadorian planes and ships on Thursday scoured the Pacific for more than 100 illegal migrants missing after their small boat capsized, as Ecuador's president vowed a clampdown on gangs that organise human trafficking to the United States. |
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08/19/2005 |
Ecuador protests Colombia Before the O.A.S. |
| The fumigations made by the Colombian Air Force to eradicate narcotic plants throughout the border with Ecuador motivated the protest of doctor Claudio Mueckay Arcos, recently named People's Defender by the Congress of the Andean country who filed the complaint before the Inter-American Commission of Human rights at the O.A.S. in Washington DC. |
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08/19/2005 |
Ecuador halts oil exports because of protests |
Ecuador 's state oil firm, Petroecuador, said Thursday it was suspending exports of crude oil because of protests that have cut production.
In a statement, Petroecuador said it was declaring a state of 'force majeure."
"Exports of Oriente crude have been suspended," the statement said. |
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08/12/2005 |
Peru's president asks his cabinet to resign |
| Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo said Thursday he had asked his entire cabinet of 15 ministers to resign in a bid to manage a political crisis sparked by the resignation of Peru's most powerful minister. |
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08/12/2005 |
Lagos: Let history judge Pinochet family |
President Ricardo Lagos said Chile's courts will decide if former dictator Augusto Pinochet and his family are guilty, as charged, of tax fraud.
"Let the courts do their work in peace and let history be the judge, at it always is," Lagos told reporters in Linares, 350 kilometers (215 miles) south of Santiago. |
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08/12/2005 |
Rumsfeld to visit Peru, Paraguay |
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will visit Paraguay and Peru this month, top officials in both countries said Thursday.
Rumsfeld will travel to Paraguay on August 17 and will stay one or two days, Paraguayan Vice President Luis Castiglioni said. |
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08/12/2005 |
Salvadoran soldiers on their way to Iraq |
| El Salvador deployed a fifth contingent of soldiers to Iraq this Thursday, to maintain its military presence in the U.S. Lead coalition that is occupying the Arab nation. |
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07/29/2005 |
Special prosecutor will seek new ways to go after Echeverria |
| The Mexican special prosecutor probing crimes committed during the so-called "dirty war" against leftists and real or suspected government opponents will seek new ways to bring former President Luis Echeverria to trial, along with other former officials, for a 1971 massacre of student protesters. |
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07/29/2005 |
New Latin American TV news network hits the airwaves |
| Telesur, the Latin American television network created by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to counter the "hegemony" of international networks like CNN, hit the airwaves for the first time Sunday. |
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07/22/2005 |
Corruption fallout mounts for Lula's party |
| The head of Brazil's ruling party in Congress resigned Thursday adding to a corruption scandal that has rocked the leftist party of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. |
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07/22/2005 |
Third draft on UN Security Council expansion introduced |
| Countries opposing a bid by Brazil, Germany, India and Japan to gain permanent membership of the 15-member UN Security Council on Thursday submitted a competing draft of their own pushing for an increase to 25 members, with 10 new non-permanent members. |
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07/22/2005 |
Bush makes push for CAFTA at OAS |
| President George W. Bush pushed hard Thursday to win support for the free trade deal with Central America and the Dominican Republic, which Congress is to vote on next week. |
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07/22/2005 |
A woman to lead Colombian lawmakers |
| Colombian lawmakers have chosen Senator Claudia Blum as their president, the first time a woman has taken the top legislative office in the country's history, congressional sources said. |
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07/15/2005 |
UN: Uribe should veto pro-paramilitary law |
| A United Nations agency that works with families of kidnapping victims called on Colombia's government on Wednesday to break ties with outlawed paramilitary groups that have been involved in the disappearances of hundreds of Colombians. |
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07/15/2005 |
Protests in Havana |
| Two anti-government protests in Havana were blocked by hundreds of worker militias loyal to President Fidel Castro, with at least 10 people arrested, as 5,000 pro-Castro supporters massed in Havana in a counter-protest late Wednesday. |
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07/15/2005 |
Nicaragua's Bolaños asks for OAS referendum |
| Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños said Thursday he had been hijacked by a "legislative dictatorship" that has control of almost all of Nicaragua's state powers, urging the OAS to stage a referendum over reforms pushed forward by his opponents in Congress. |
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07/15/2005 |
Salvador president to send fresh troops to Iraq |
| Salvadoran President Antonio Saca appeared willing Wednesday to send a fresh military contingent to Iraq, as his country remains the only Latin American nation with troops in the war-torn country. |
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07/15/2005 |
Central America investigates traffiking network |
| The police services of Central America investigate a powerful network of illegal trade of products, traffic of undocumented people and money laundering, which has been operating for ten years in the region, official sources informed this Thursday. |
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07/08/2005 |
Brazil: corruption brings down second top official |
| Brazil's ruling Workers Party on Tuesday lost a second top official to a corruption scandal in as many days, when the treasury chief offered to step aside until the completion of a congressional probe into alleged misdeeds. |
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07/08/2005 |
| Fierce wave of violence in El Salvador |
| Last month there were a total of 330 murders in El Salvador , an average of 11 deaths a day, according to official figures, despite repressive measures put in place by the government of Elías Antonio Removes, which, analysts say, have caused greater violence. |
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07/08/2005 |
| Chilean court strips Pinochet's immunity |
The Santiago Appeals Court on Wednesday stripped ailing ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet of his immunity in a case involving political prisoners killed during his iron-fisted rule, the court said.
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