Latin America
- Argentine lawmakers back export taxes
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:14:09
AP - Argentina’s lower house of Congress on Saturday approved a package of grain-export taxes that have sparked nationwide farm protests and food shortages. - Mexico sees anti-drug aid for police
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:50:28
AP - Mexico’s president says he plans to use the recently approved package of U.S. anti-drug aid to improve the country’s police force. - Argentine congress debates export tax
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:11:48
AP - The Argentine Congress is debating on live television a proposal to increase grain-export taxes that has sparked farm strikes and food shortages across the country. - Lima bust nets pre-Hispanic textiles
(AP)
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:06:00
AP - Shoppers at a tourist market in Peru’s capital could have netted greater bargains than they thought rare, pre-Hispanic textiles costing little more than a Machu Picchu magnet. - More headless corpses found as Mexican drug wars rage
(AFP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:13:57
AFP - Three decapitated corpses were discovered in Mexico’s northwestern Sinaloa state Friday, bring to a total of seven headless bodies found and 11 police assassinated in a bloody week of often drug-related violence in the country, officials and news reports said.
- Panama says no to U.S. military base
(Reuters)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:38:50
Reuters - Panama has ruled out hosting a U.S. military base to replace one in Ecuador which is being reclaimed by the Quito government, a senior Panamanian official said on Friday. - Tropical Storm Douglas weakens
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:27:53
AP - Tropical Storm Douglas weakened to a depression off Mexico’s coast on Thursday and was forecast to die at sea.
- U.S. salmonella probe expands to Mexico: CNN
(Reuters)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:26:16
Reuters - The investigation of a salmonella
outbreak in the United States is shifting to the southern
border to encompass produce imported from Mexico, CNN reported
on Thursday.
- Argentines find lost ‘Metropolis’ scenes
(AP)
Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:33:12
AP - Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic “Metropolis,” recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday.
- Union support slips for Peru mining strike
(Reuters)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:50:20
Reuters - Union support sank for Peru’s nationwide
mining strike on Thursday, while workers from other mines said
the walkout would go on until Congress passed a bill to give
them a bigger slice of corporate profits.
- McCain, in Mexico, faults Obama on trade
(Reuters)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:37:15
Reuters - U.S. Republican presidential
candidate John McCain took a veiled swipe at Democratic rival
Barack Obama over trade on Thursday in the final leg of a Latin
American trip aimed at showcasing the Arizona senator’s foreign
policy credentials.
- Slow, painful task: identifying Guatemalan dead
(AP)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:26:38
AP - Guatemala’s 36-year civil war cost some 200,000 lives, mostly of Mayan Indians caught between government forces and rebels. Twelve years after peace was signed, forensic anthropologists are still hunting for the missing. - US denies instigating July 4 protests in Cuba
(AP)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:47:59
AP - A spokesman for the U.S. mission here on Thursday denied Cuba’s charge that American diplomats were instigating opposition protests linked to American independence day.
- 4 decapitated bodies found on Mexican city street
(AP)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:21:20
AP - Four decapitated bodies were found on a street in the Mexican city of Culiacan, blocks away from their severed heads. - Venezuela 1Q oil income rises 80 percent
(AP)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:16:15
AP - Venezuela’s state oil company said net income rose 80 percent in the first quarter as world oil prices soared. - Four men found decapitated as Mexico drug war rages
(Reuters)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:49:25
Reuters - The severed heads of four men were found dumped on a Mexican street on Wednesday with a message accusing a drug gang kingpin of treachery, police said. - Cuba to Juba: south Sudanese doctors come home
(Reuters)
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:34:33
Reuters - They left as children and
teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and
Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the
green strangeness of Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud.
- Cuba says U.S. escalating anti-government actions
(Reuters)
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:38:20
Reuters - Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. diplomats
of escalating anti-government activities in recent weeks and
said its ideological foe, the United States, will be held
responsible for whatever happens if the actions continue.
- Anti-Chavez Venezuelan general is released
(AP)
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:57:22
AP - An army general protesting the “socialism or death” motto of President Hugo Chavez has been released from military detention, but still could be charged with a crime, his attorney said Wednesday. - Swiss to decide on Haitian ex-dictator’s money
(AP)
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:12:10
AP - Millions of dollars frozen in Swiss bank accounts will be given to the government of Haiti if the family of former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier cannot prove by September that the money is legitimate, the Swiss Justice Ministry said Wednesday.
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