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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Misread Scale of Honduran Rift ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 4 -- Although the U.S. government knew for months that Honduras was on the brink of political chaos, officials say they underestimated how fearful the Honduran elite and the military were of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and his ally President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>William Booth and Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Air France Jet Was Intact When It Hit Surface of Atlantic, Investigators Say ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PARIS, July 2 -- French crash investigators said Thursday they have determined that an Air France jetliner that plunged from a stormy sky on June 1 was intact when it smacked belly-first into the Atlantic Ocean at high speed, killing all 228 people aboard, but acknowledged they still have no clea... <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Honduras Targets Protesters With Emergency Decree ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 1 -- The new Honduran government clamped down on street protests and news organizations Wednesday as lawmakers passed an emergency decree that limits public gatherings following the military-led coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya from office. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>William Booth and Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Honduran Crisis Offers Venezuala's Chavez Some Domestic, International Openings ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, July 1 -- An ally was in trouble, toppled in a military coup. And the television cameras were rolling.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123843043" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123843043" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ousted Honduran President Plans Return But Future Is Unclear ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is preparing to return to his country, days after the military pushed him from office and into exile. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[ New Honduran Leadership Flouts Worldwide Censure ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June 29 -- Honduras's new government vowed Monday to remain in power despite growing worldwide condemnation of the military-led coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>William Booth and Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombia's Uribe Faces a New White House Approach Toward Latin America ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:55:59 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia -- In a White House ceremony in January, President George W. Bush awarded Colombian President Álvaro Uribe the Presidential Medal of Freedom and praised him for his "immense personal courage and strength of character" for taking on his country's fight against Marxist guerrillas. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombia's Uribe Faces a New White House Approach Toward Latin America ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia -- In a White House ceremony in January, President George W. Bush awarded Colombian President Álvaro Uribe the Presidential Medal of Freedom and praised him for his "immense personal courage and strength of character" for taking on his country's fight against Marxist guerrillas.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123843272" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123843272" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Honduran Military Sends President Into Exile; Supportive Congress Names Successor ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MEXICO CITY, June 28 -- Soldiers stormed the presidential palace in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa at dawn Sunday and forced President Manuel Zelaya into exile in Costa Rica. The military-led ouster sparked a regional crisis that thrusts the impoverished banana-growing country onto the inter... <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>William Booth and Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Venezuela, Land 'Rescue' Hopes Unmet ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LAS VEGAS, Venezuela -- Dreaming of a new life, Ramón Barrera came to El Charcote, a vast farm here in northwestern Venezuela, several years after President Hugo Chávez's populist government had expropriated the property from its longtime owners and begun distributing parcels to small farmers like... <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Officials Begin to Identify Bodies in Air France Crash as Search Goes On ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RECIFE, Brazil, June 11 -- Authorities started to identify bodies Thursday from a jetliner crash, and the names of victims found far apart in the ocean could help determine whether the Air France plane broke up in the air as investigators link them to seat assignments. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Semi-Submarines, Stealthily Plying Pacific, Arrive as a Way to Smuggle Cocaine ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>William Booth and Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Stealthily]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Plying]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pacific,]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cuba Agrees to Resume Immigration Talks With U.S. ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=cd0ee8b49956c5b082e85cf2d8da0266</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAN SALVADOR, May 31 -- Cuba has agreed to restart talks with the United States on immigration and has signaled its willingness to cooperate on issues including terrorism, drug trafficking and even mail service, a sign that the island's communist government is warming to President Obama's call for a... <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Agrees]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Resume]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 'Aló Presidente,' Are You Still Talking? ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=48b90ae7e01c865d60d8c9254b7bf838</link>
			<pheedo:origLink>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052903379.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</pheedo:origLink>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, May 29 -- There's probably no president in the world as loquacious as Hugo Chávez, the self-styled revolutionary leader who frequently commandeers the Venezuelan airwaves to deliver monologues that can last hours. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA['Aló]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Presidente,']]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Are]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[You]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Still]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Talking?]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Brazil Detained, Released Arab Who Ran Web Site ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=aedf265f4776c88ca751718b9d57b031</link>
			<pheedo:origLink>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/26/AR2009052603498.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</pheedo:origLink>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAO PAULO, May 26 -- Brazilian authorities detained an Arab who ran a Web forum that authorities initially suspected could be linked to terrorists and included anti-American statements in Arabic, a prosecutor said Tuesday night. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Alan Clendenning</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Detained,]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Arab]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ecuador Pursues Unusual Carbon-Credit Plan to Leave Oil Untapped ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=7d7314f21726eeb158072766f2d2c5ff</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ QUITO, Ecuador -- Beneath the tropical jungles of northeastern Ecuador lies a vast pool of oil, representing one-fifth of the small Andean country's petroleum reserves and potentially billions of dollars in revenue. Directly above that pool, the Yasuni National Park is home to a diversity of wild...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123843954" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123843954" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pursues]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Unusual]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carbon-Credit]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Untapped]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombian Farmers Get Broad Incentives to Forgo Coca Crops ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104318.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ VISTA HERMOSA, Colombia -- Colombia, with $8 billion in U.S. backing since the late 1990s, has tried everything to eradicate the crop used to make cocaine. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombian]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Farmers]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Get]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Broad]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Incentives]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Forgo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Coca]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Crops]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ecuadoran Frontier Town a Hub for Drug-Running Rebels, Colombia Charges ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/19/AR2009051903565.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PUERTO NUEVO, Ecuador -- The townspeople in this tiny frontier outpost, deep in the rain forest hugging Colombia's border, say theirs is a quiet, law-abiding community of shopkeepers, subsistence farmers and fishermen. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Ecuadoran]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Frontier]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Town]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Drug-Running]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rebels,]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombian Defense Minister Santos Considers 2010 Run for President ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/18/AR2009051802982.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia, May 18 -- Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, celebrated for driving back Marxist guerrillas with U.S. backing in Latin America's longest-running civil conflict, announced his resignation Monday, saying he will run for president in 2010 if the current leader, Álvaro Uribe,... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombian]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Minister]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Santos]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ An Adoring Home For the Green Jacket ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/04/AR2009050403365.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ VILLA ALLENDE, Argentina -- The road through Villa Allende passes lumberyards and hardware stores, one-story concrete houses and a dirt soccer field in a park of patchy grass -- an unlikely setting for the center of Latin American golf.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123844367" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123844367" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[An]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Adoring]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Home]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jacket]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Latin America Appears to Warm to IMF ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/27/AR2009042703163.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ QUITO, Ecuador -- Few guests have felt so unwanted in Ecuador as the International Monetary Fund. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero and Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Opposition Leader Seeks Asylum in Peru After Fleeing Venezuela ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR2009042103686.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A top Venezuelan opposition leader is seeking political asylum in Peru, according to his aides, after fleeing his country to avoid what he calls a politically motivated witch hunt directed by the government of President Hugo Chávez. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Opposition]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Leader]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Closes Summit, Vows Broader Engagement With Latin America ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/19/AR2009041901730.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 19 -- President Obama concluded a summit of the hemisphere's leaders Sunday by articulating a broad new agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean, having gained momentum in his bid to repair relations with some of the region's shrillest critics of the... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Closes]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Vows]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Race a Dominant Theme at Summit ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/18/AR2009041801826.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 18 -- In presenting himself at a summit here as an equal partner to Latin America, President Obama is drawing on his race as evidence of U.S. social progress and of his own affinity for the region's poor.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123844610" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123844610" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Chavez Gives Obama Book on Latin American History ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/18/AR2009041801009.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:43:03 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 18 -- With the media watching their every gesture, President Obama and President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela continued their getting-to-know-you phase with a gift and another handshake, this one for more than one camera. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Gives]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Urges 'Equal Partnership' With Latin American Countries ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/17/AR2009041700389.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 17 -- President Obama was forced to confront long-standing resentment of U.S. dominance of Latin America as he told regional leaders here Friday evening that his administration seeks an "equal partnership" with the rest of the hemisphere. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Despite Economic Woes, Brazil's Leaders and Economists Are Relatively Optimistic ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041604010.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, April 16 -- In the final three months of last year, the once-robust Brazilian economy contracted 3.6 percent over the previous quarter, on par with some of the largest declines in emerging-market countries around the world. Unemployment has risen. And the government launched a pro... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombian Drug Lord Rendón Herrera Captured in Jungle Raid ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041501226.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia, April 15 -- Colombia's most wanted drug lord was cowering under a palm tree when he was captured Wednesday in a jungle raid involving hundreds of police officers, the nation's defense minister said.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123844800" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123844800" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Cesar Garcia</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ At Summit of Americas, U.S. May Face World of Blame for Economy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama plans to take his message of partnership to Latin America and the Caribbean this week, but he will face a group of leaders far less forgiving than their European counterparts were about the United States' central role in the global financial crisis. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Lifts Broad Set Of Sanctions Against Cuba ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama yesterday announced a series of steps aimed at easing the U.S. relationship with Cuba, breaking from policies first imposed by the Kennedy administration and stepping into an emotional debate over the best way to bring democratic change to one of the last remaining communist regimes. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Michael D. Shear and Cecilia Kang</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Peru's Fujimori Gets 25 Years ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/07/AR2009040701345.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was convicted Tuesday of "crimes against humanity" and sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in killings and kidnappings by security forces during his government's battle against leftist guerrillas in the 1990s. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Lucien Chauvin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Argentine Politics Reacts to Financial Woes ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BUENOS AIRES -- Time is not on Francisco de Narváez's side, so he excused himself from an interview at the Buenos Aires airport this week and hurried onto the tarmac to catch his helicopter for a three-town campaign blitz.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123844992" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123844992" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Reacts]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Argentina's Indomitable Deity ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/27/AR2009032703244.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BUENOS AIRES -- When Lionel Messi, the man many consider the best soccer player in the world, arrived at the Argentine national team's practice facility Thursday, the commotion was considerable. Fans gathered outside the gated complex and surrounded his silver SUV in a jubilant mass, snapping... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ecuador's Protectionist Response to Global Crisis Helps Some, Worries Others ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032503110.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ QUITO, Ecuador -- The world economy is in a free fall, and the prospects for tiny, oil-producing Ecuador are bleak. But at Grupo Superior, workers in hairnets and white smocks churn out growing orders of pasta and animal crackers, and the company plans to expand from three factories to four. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Peru, Former Leader's Lengthy Human Rights Trial Nears End ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032302833.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LIMA, Peru, March 23 -- It started with a former president red-faced and bellowing his innocence, and it is ending amid worry over whether his health may be enough to derail the whole show. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombia Orders Return of Stolen Farmland ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/22/AR2009032202029.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARMEN DEL DARIEN, Colombia -- As with so many crimes of war, what happened here in the dense, humid jungles of northwestern Colombia more than a decade ago might easily have been forgotten. Illegal militias forced hundreds of poor black farmers off their land, which politically connected busines...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123845295" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123845295" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Orders]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Return]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Next Salvadoran Leader Vows Moderate Rule ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/16/AR2009031602665.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ After winning a bitter presidential contest Sunday night, El Salvador's president-elect promised yesterday that he would serve as a moderate, open-minded leader who would work to improve economic conditions, lift the poor and heal lingering wounds in a country that fought a 12-year civil war. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>William Booth</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Brazil's President to Seek a Change in U.S. Approach ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, March 13 -- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to bring his own message for change when he meets with President Obama on Saturday at the White House: that the United States work to ease its often hostile relations with Latin America. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fight for 8-Year-Old Colors Relationship Between U.S., Brazil ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031203886.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva meets with President Obama on Saturday in Washington for the first time, the most closely watched issue between their two countries might not be energy, the environment or hemispheric security but the custody of an 8-year-old boy. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Inter-American Relations Roiled -- Ouster of Several U.S. Officials Highlights Strains in Hemisphere ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, March 12 -- An American diplomat accused by the Bolivian government of conspiring with opposition factions left the country Thursday, one of several U.S. officials forced out of Andean nations in recent months and another sign of the deep discontent with U.S. policy that the Obama...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123846008" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123846008" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombians Snap Up Hostages' Memoirs ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia -- In a new book titled "Out of Captivity," three Americans describe being chained at the neck by rebel guards during five years of imprisonment in Colombia's jungles, and reveal tensions among themselves and their fellow hostages. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Snap]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Up]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In El Salvador Vote, Big Opportunity for Leftists ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAN SALVADOR -- After a 12-year civil war and a peace undermined by soaring crime, leftists in El Salvador are on the verge of completing a remarkable journey from armed struggle to the presidential palace. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>William Booth</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Paleontologists Strike Fossil Gold in Colombia ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030303319.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia -- Carlos Jaramillo is 39 years old but loves to dig in the dirt -- especially the dry, flaky shale formations of Colombia's Guajira province. "If you talk to a paleontologist," he explained, "you're talking to a kid who never grew up." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Out-of-Work Financiers Reap Dividends of Seeing the World ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO -- When Deutsche Bank determined that strategist Rod Manalo was, in the merciless language of hard times, "redundant," it was an abrupt and humbling end to a seven-year career in finance.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123846211" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123846211" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela's Determined Voice of Dissent ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/24/AR2009022403721.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela -- Days after President Hugo Chávez won a referendum to eliminate term limits, Congressman Juan José Molina stood up in the National Assembly and called the victory "a major fraud" made possible by weak institutions and a populace manipulated by an omnipresent government. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cabbies Steer Blogger to Buenos Aires's Diverse Culinary Offerings ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803176.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BUENOS AIRES Dinner hour in this city often arrives as close to dawn as to dusk, so it wasn't until 9:48 p.m. that the food pilgrim picked the intersection of Medrano and Rivadavia to look for a taxi to places unknown. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Steer]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Blogger]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Latin America's Document-Driven Revolutions ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/16/AR2009021601468.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Once a product of armed rebellion, the revolution in Latin America today is taking place on paper in the form of new constitutions, a mostly peaceful process influenced by the work of European legal scholars who have played a behind-the-scenes role in drafting the populist... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[America's]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Revolutions]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuelans Vote on Chávez's Term ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/15/AR2009021501855.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 15 -- For the second time in 14 months, President Hugo Chávez tried Sunday to persuade Venezuelans to end term limits through a referendum that, if approved, would allow him to rule far into the 21st century to complete his socialist transformation of this oil-rich country.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123847155" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123847155" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuelans]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[on]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chávez's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Term]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Chávez Wins Removal of Term Limits ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/15/AR2009021500136.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 15 -- Fourteen months after his first attempt failed, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez won a referendum Sunday to eliminate term limits, paving the way for him to rule far into the 21st century to carry out his socialist transformation of this oil-rich country. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Removal]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Term]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Limits]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Despite Feats, President of Bolivia Stirs Fierce Debate ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/14/AR2009021401798.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ACHACACHI, Bolivia -- The barefoot teen in the potato field acknowledged that his family of 12 still had nearly no money. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Despite]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Feats,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Stirs]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela Decides Term Limits Today  Chávez Bid to Run Again Leads Slightly ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/14/AR2009021401621.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 14 -- Hugo Chávez appears to be everywhere, in his trademark button-down red shirt or army fatigues, singing songs of love to adoring throngs or waving from a campaign truck winding through helter-skelter slums. It is campaign season in Venezuela, yet again. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Decides]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Term]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Limits]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Today]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Again]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Leads]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela's Chávez Sets Up Obstacles for Opponents Who Won in Fall Elections ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/11/AR2009021103986.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 11 -- In November, Antonio Ledezma, a well-known opponent of the Venezuelan government, defeated President Hugo Chávez's handpicked candidate for mayor of greater Caracas. It was a particularly bitter setback for Chávez, not just because city hall is such a prized post bu...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123847434" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123847434" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sets]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Up]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Obstacles]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[for]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Opponents]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Who]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Won]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pride of Argentina Falls on Hard Times -- Drought Kills Off Cattle by Thousands ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/08/AR2009020802024.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAN MIGUEL DEL MONTE, Argentina --  She was the pride of the pampas. A free-range phenom. Independent, healthy, out there by the millions in the clean air, the fresh grass, in both life and tasty death a symbol of all that still was exceptional about this proud nation. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Pride]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Falls]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[on]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hard]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Times]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[--]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Drought]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Kills]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Off]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cattle]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Jews in S. America Increasingly Uneasy ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/07/AR2009020701972.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 7 -- Jewish leaders said it had never before happened in Venezuela: a break-in with anti-Jewish intent at one of the city's most prominent synagogues. A dozen armed men overpowered guards, spray-painted office walls with anti-Semitic insults, desecrated historic Torah scr... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero and Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[S.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Increasingly]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Uneasy]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Protected Forest's Fast Decline ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/05/AR2009020503199.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOM FUTURO NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil -- Antonio Elson Portela had already passed acres of charred stumps and rows of corn and coffee plants when he drove up behind a flatbed truck hauling logs out of this Amazonian forest. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Protected]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Forest's]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bolivians Appear To Back Charter ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/25/AR2009012500625.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 25 -- After a prolonged debate that has split the country, unofficial results indicate that Bolivians voted to approve a new constitution Sunday, an affirmation of the socialist project begun three years ago by Evo Morales, the nation's first indigenous president.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123847727" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123847727" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivians]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Appear]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[To]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Back]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Charter]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As Bolivians Vote on New Constitution, Opposition Finds Itself Divided ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/24/AR2009012402119.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 24 -- Just six months ago, the enemies of President Evo Morales seemed brash with their power. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[As]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivians]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[on]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[New]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Constitution,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Opposition]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Finds]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Divided]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama and Chávez Start Sparring Early ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011802325.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 18 -- In an interview shown in the past week on the Spanish-language network Univision, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said that Venezuela's firebrand president, Hugo Chávez, has hindered progress in Latin America, and he expressed concern that Chávez's leftist government... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Start]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[FARC]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bogota]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Raul Castro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Felipe Calderon]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ To Rid Slums of Drug Gangs, Police in Rio de Janeiro Try War Tactics ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010600403.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:45:54 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 5 -- From the school balcony, Marcos Cunha had an unobstructed view of Santa Marta, the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood that had been giving his fellow police officers so much trouble. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ To Rid Slums of Drug Gangs,Police in Rio de Janeiro Try War Tactics ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/05/AR2009010502741.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 5 -- From the school balcony, Marcos Cunha had an unobstructed view of Santa Marta, the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood that had been giving his fellow police officers so much trouble. <br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123847987" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123847987" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Brazil's Tough Drunken-Driving Law Collides With Carnival Culture ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/22/AR2008122202199.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 22 Of all the things you could say to a cop with an automatic weapon after he's pulled you out of the car on the side of the highway at midnight, Isaac Chaves chose: "I've had 15 beers." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil's]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Marcos Viera]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Isaac Chaves]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Antonio Carlos]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Arthur Vianna]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bahia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luciano Soares]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ameusca Santos]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cesar Augusto]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Marisa Dreys]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ An American Conductor's Bolivian Composition ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/17/AR2008121703360.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LA PAZ, Bolivia -- He had apprenticed with legendary German conductor Kurt Masur and conducted youth orchestras in Chicago. Then, almost on a lark, David Handel, an American violinist, came to this isolated capital in the center of South America -- a city 12,000 feet above sea level, seemingly st... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Conductor's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivian]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Composition]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[David Handel]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Jaime Bravo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Kurt Masur]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ludwig van Beethoven]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alberto Villalpando]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Claude Debussy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Enriqueta Ulloa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Igor Fyodorovitch Stravinsky]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[La Paz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luis Rico]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Oruro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tarija]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Valery Patino]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[National Symphony Orchestra]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[National Symphony Orchestra Foundation]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Economic Storm Batters Argentina's Breadbasket ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/14/AR2008121402029.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ ALFONZO, Argentina -- When Héctor Farroni married a few years back, he took his new bride for a swing through Iowa. The silos and windmills, the spider-like combines, the wide, flat fields all reminded him of this region of eastern Argentina, part of a fertile farm belt that has propelled the... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Storm]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Batters]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Breadbasket]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Just outside Alfonzo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hector Farroni]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Norberto Forti]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Juan Carlos Digilio]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Walter Martinez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fergus J. McCormick]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Julio Cobos]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nestor Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pablo Adreani]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Deere & Company]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Paraguay]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Uruguay]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Southern Cone]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Unable to Escape Global Crisis, South American Nations Take Financial Action ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/09/AR2008120902741.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 9 -- It began with denial, as the leaders of several South American countries insisted their high-stepping economies could weave their way through the financial troubles shaking the United States.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123848199" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123848199" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Lucien Chauvin</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Unable]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Escape]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Crisis,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nations]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Take]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Action]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alan Garcia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Alessandro Rebucci]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brasilia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Federico Thomsen]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lima (Peru)]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michael Shifter]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bogota (Colombia)]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brian Byrnes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Inter-American Development Bank]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Inter-American Dialogue]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[OPEC]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[PFC Energy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Short of Skilled Workers, Brazilian Companies School Future Workforce ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/08/AR2008120803747.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ VITORIA, Brazil -- Fabiana Nunes Rodrigues didn't know much about trains. But she wanted a good job, she said, something stable, maybe as a mechanic, like her grandfather. Brazilian college courses didn't offer much in the way of technical instruction. But one company in her home town did, and she... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Short]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Skilled]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Workers,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazilian]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[School]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Workforce]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fabiana Nunes Rodrigues]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Emiliana Vegas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vitoria]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luiz Ros]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Marco Dalpozzo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sao Paulo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cabo Frio]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Eugenio de Melo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey M. Puryear]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Leonardo Pereira Alves]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Marise Barroso]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tamara Ortega Goodspeed]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Embraer SA]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Inter-American Development Bank]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Espirito Santo]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela's Chávez Again Seeks to Scrap Term Limits ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/07/AR2008120702633.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 7 -- All this month, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has explained in one speech after another how he would like nothing more than to leave office when his term ends in 2013. But the Venezuelan people are urging him to remain in the presidency, Chávez has said, and he will... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Again]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Scrap]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Term]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Limits]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Aristobulo Isturiz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cilia Flores]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cumana]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Globovision]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jorge Rodriguez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Manuel Rosales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Miraflores Palace]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vicente Diaz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombia Reels After Investment Schemes; Scandal Has Riveted Residents, Shaken the Economy, Damaged Uribe's Standing ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120403545.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120403545.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</guid>
			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia -- The pied piper was a gangly, long-haired entrepreneur whose remarkable success story seemed to augur well for those who invested in his get-rich scheme. David Murcia, 28, had gone from being a traveling salesman making $130 a month to living in a luxury high-rise, driving a... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Reels]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[After]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Investment]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Schemes;]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Scandal]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Has]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Riveted]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Residents,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Shaken]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Economy,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Damaged]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Uribe's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Standing]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Murcia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[DMG Group Holdings]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carmen Ochoa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Daniel Angel]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bogota]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[David Murcia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Teflon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ferrari SpA]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ At the U.N., a Firebrand Increasingly in the Mainstream; His Tirades Against U.S.-Led Economic Order Are Resonating ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/29/AR2008112901930.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS -- The Rev. Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, a revolutionary Nicaraguan priest, sounded like the old-school, 1980s-style Latin American leftist he is when he began his presidency of the 192-member U.N. General Assembly in September.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123848765" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123848765" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.N.,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[a]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Firebrand]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Increasingly]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mainstream;]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[His]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tirades]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Against]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S.-Led]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Order]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Are]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Resonating]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colin Keating]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Nations General Assembly]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sandinista National Liberation Front]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki-moon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Daniel Ortega]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Doha]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Dominique Strauss-Khan]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michelle Bachelet]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[New Zealand]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Robert Zoellick]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Sea Exercises, A Sign for Obama ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112502552.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 25 -- The arrival of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and a naval squadron in Venezuela this week is an unequivocal message to President-elect Barack Obama that his most nettlesome challenge in the Americas will be Venezuela's populist government and its oil-fueled crusa... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[In]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sea]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Exercises,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[A]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sign]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[for]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Thomas Shannon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Dmitry Medvedev]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michael Shifter]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Belarus]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alexander Lukashenko]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bernardo Alvarez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Daniel Ortega]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Inter-American Dialogue]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Peter DeShazo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Peter the Great]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Allies of Venezuela's Chávez Win Big, but Opposition Secures Key Posts ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/23/AR2008112300560.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 24 -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's allies won a hefty majority of state governorships in Sunday's elections, but the opposition secured important victories by winning the mayor's seat in greater Caracas and two economically vital states. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Allies]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Win]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Big,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[but]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Opposition]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Secures]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Key]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Posts]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luis Vicente Leon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alberto Muller Rojas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Antonio Ledezma]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barinas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Ocariz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Erica Cordoba]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Leopoldo Lopez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Manuel Rosales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Maracaibo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pedro Nikken]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Petare]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Susana Zambrano]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Valencia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sucre State]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tachira State]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Chile, Fury Erupts Over Failure to Notify Patients of Positive HIV Tests ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/21/AR2008112103510.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/21/AR2008112103510.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</guid>
			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The latest face of Chile's HIV crisis is a woman with no face at all. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[In]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chile,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fury]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Erupts]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Over]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Failure]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Notify]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Patients]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Positive]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tests]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Argentina to Nationalize Pension Funds ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112003812.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 20 -- Argentina's Senate on Thursday night gave final approval to the government's plan to nationalize the private pension system in an attempt to protect retirement investments from the international financial crisis.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123848984" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123848984" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Brian Byrnes</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nationalize]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pension]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Funds]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentine Senate]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Amado Boudou]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Menem]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Claudio Loser]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ernesto Sanz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Julio Miranda]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentine National Congress]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuelans Expected to Whittle Away at Chávez's Power ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112003817.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SUCRE, Venezuela -- In campaign slogs through Venezuela's biggest slum, Carlos Ocariz seeks out those who worship President Hugo Chávez. He then urges them to abandon "El Comandante" and throw their support behind him in the mayoral race for Sucre -- a down-at-the-heels district of Caracas that was... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuelans]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Expected]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Whittle]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Away]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[at]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chávez's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Ocariz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Manuel Rosales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Petare]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jesse Chacon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Adan Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Betty Diaz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barinas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Demetrio Boersner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Donnal Perez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Maracaibo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mario Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pedro Espana]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Andres Bello Catholic University]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Institute of Economic and Social Investigations]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Inter-American Development Bank]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Amazonas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tachira State]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Zulia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Zulia State]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ CIA Withheld Details On Downing, IG Says ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112002011.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ An internal CIA probe has concluded that agency officials deliberately misled Congress, the White House and federal prosecutors about key details of the 2001 downing of an airplane carrying U.S. missionaries in Peru, according to a senior lawmaker who called yesterday for a new criminal inquiry i... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joby Warrick</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[CIA]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Withheld]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Details]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[On]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Downing,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[IG]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Says]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Central Intelligence Agency]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pete Hoekstra]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michael Hayden]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mark Mansfield]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michael Bowers]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carrie Johnson]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Richard B. Myers]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bolivian President Evo Morales Visits Washington, Talks of Fresh Start With U.S. Under Obama ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903743.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Evo Morales, the charismatic but controversial president of Bolivia, this week came to Washington for the first time, saying he hoped for a fresh start with President-elect Barack Obama while defiantly reiterating the policies that have led to the near-collapse of his relations with the Bush... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Pamela Constable</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[OAS]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Elena Abolnik]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bolivian President Evo Morales Visits Washington, Talks of Fresh Start With U.S. Under Obama ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/19/AR2008111903622.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:37:02 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Evo Morales, the charismatic but controversial president of Bolivia, this week came to Washington for the first time, saying he hoped for a fresh start with President-elect Barack Obama while defiantly reiterating the policies that have led to the near-collapse of his relations with the Bush admi...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123849212" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123849212" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Pamela Constable</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivian]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[President]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Visits]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[With]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Soaring Crime Rate Could Hurt Venezuela's Chávez in Regional Elections ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/17/AR2008111703098.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela -- Three of Miriam Sánchez's sons had already been shot dead in neighborhoods where the crackle of gunfire is a nightly occurrence. So she feared the worst when word arrived one recent night that her 24-year-old son, José Luis Arias, had been shot. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Soaring]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rate]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Could]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hurt]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Regional]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Miriam Sanchez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Aristobulo Isturiz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jesse Chacon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luis Cedeno]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Monica Fernandez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bogota]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jose Luis Arias]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Medellin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Naples]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pedro Carreno]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ramon Rodriguez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Roberto Briceno-Leon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tarek Aissami]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Peru Economy Grows, But Problems Abound ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/15/AR2008111502289.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LIMA, Peru, Nov. 15 -- These should be good times for president Alan García. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Grows,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[But]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Problems]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Abound]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alan Garcia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luis Giampetri]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jo-Marie Burt]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Shining Path Guerilla Movement]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alberto Fujimori]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lima]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lucien Chauvin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ollanta Humala]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tacna]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Yehude Simon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Truth and Reconciliation Commission]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Crisis Puts the Brakes on Brazil's Go-Go Economy ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111304274.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAO PAULO, Brazil -- The go-go outlook that propelled Brazil onto the world stage in recent years has crashed into hard economic realities. The financial meltdown that began in the United States has pummeled the stock exchange, battered commodity prices, weakened the local currency and squeezed c... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Crisis]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Puts]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brakes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[on]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Go-Go]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bruno Miranda]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sao Paulo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mauro Arruda]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jose Santos de Oliveira]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Juan Jensen]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Larisa Karina Leite]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Maria Eliza Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Paraisopolis]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Paulo de Godoy Pereira]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rubens Ricupero]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazilian Association of Infrastructure]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Petroleo Brasileiro SA]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Brazil's Lula Urges 'Global Solutions' ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/08/AR2008110801329.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ SAO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 8 -- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told international finance ministers Saturday that developing countries must be given a greater role in finding solutions to the world's financial crisis.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123849638" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123849638" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lula]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Urges]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA['Global]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Solutions']]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[David H. McCormick]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[The World Bank Group]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ben Bernanke]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Guido Mantega]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jenilee Guebert]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of the Treasury]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[University of Toronto]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sao Paulo]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Finding Balance In Amazon Tug of War ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/05/AR2008110504248.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO -- Carlos Minc never wanted to grow up to be the environment minister of Brazil. The self-described former "student militant revolutionary," who spent time behind bars in the 1960s for resisting his country's military dictatorship, had more grandiose goals in his younger years. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Finding]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[In]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tug]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Minc]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Marina Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Claudio C. Maretti]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[John Carter]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Adriana Ramos]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bonn]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Che Guevara]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Manaus]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Paulo Adario]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Porto Velho]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Stephan Schwartzman]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Greenpeace International]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Portugal]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[World Wide Fund for Nature]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Conviction in Cash-Suitcase Case ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/03/AR2008110303235.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MIAMI, Nov. 3 -- A federal jury convicted a wealthy Venezuelan on Monday of acting as an illegal foreign agent, determining that he came to the United States to cover up a Latin American political scandal involving a cash-stuffed suitcase smuggled into Argentina. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Curt Anderson</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Conviction]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cash-Suitcase]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Case]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Franklin Duran]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Kauffmann]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Ed Shohat]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Maria Telpuk]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Henry Rangel Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Joan Lenard]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Thomas J. Mulvihill]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Playboy Enterprises Inc.]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Argentina's Financial Roller Coaster ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/02/AR2008110202457.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 2 -- At 75, Juan D'Ambrosio has seen it all in Argentina -- a populist strongman and military juntas, economic collapse and a bright, if perhaps fleeting, revival. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Financial]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Roller]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Coaster]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Juan D'Ambrosio]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Menem]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Daniel Artana]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fergus J. McCormick]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Analia Pastorino]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Augusto Medina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Tomada]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Juan Peron]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nestor Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Oscar Aguad]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Thomas P. Griesa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[HSBC Holdings plc]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[International Monetary Fund]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin American Economic Research Foundation]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[MetLife Inc.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombia Fires 27 From Army Over Killings ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Colombian government on Wednesday fired 27 army officers and soldiers, including three generals, amid allegations that poor young men had been lured to the country's turbulent outback from slums in the capital and killed there by troops.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123850301" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123850301" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fires]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[27]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[From]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Army]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Over]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Killings]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bogota]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Soacha]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Juan Manuel Santos]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michael Shifter]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Adam Isacson]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Andres Pastrana]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bayron Gongora]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fernando Escobar]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Freddy Padilla]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lisa Haugaard]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mario Montoya]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Medellin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Paulino Coronado]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Roberto Pico Hernandez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Center for International Policy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Inter-American Dialogue]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Court Case in Miami Casts Light on Corruption in Venezuela ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/23/AR2008102303364.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Miami trial of a Venezuelan entrepreneur who grew rich doing business with President Hugo Chávez's populist administration has exposed how some top government officials have profited from a corrosive web of corruption in the oil-rich country. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Court]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Case]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Casts]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Light]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[on]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Guido Alejandro Antonini]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Kauffmann]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Miami]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Franklin Duran]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Moises Maionica]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tobias Nobrega]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bernardo Alvarez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ed Shohat]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Henry Rangel Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Rijock]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tal Cual]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Teodoro Petkoff]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brian Byrnes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[The Army National Guard]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Policy and Passions Collide in Bolivia ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ MIZQUE, Bolivia -- For an unemployed man, Cooper Swanson is busy. One minute he is at the hospital, going over a plan to combat Chagas' disease. The next, he is teaching accounting to peasant weavers. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[and]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Passions]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Collide]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cooper Swanson]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Peace Corps]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lima (Peru)]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sarah Nourse]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Aaron York]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alana Liskov]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cochabamba]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Josie Duckett]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Juan Ramon Quintana]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Kathleen Sifer]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mechanicsville]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Philip Goldberg]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Santa Cruz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tarija]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[North Carolina State University]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Recession Fears Batter Markets Across World ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/22/AR2008102200021.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LIMA, Peru, Oct. 23 -- Stock markets around the world suffered steep losses Wednesday, with the sell-off particularly strong in Latin America and Eastern Europe, as investors acted on worries that recession is setting in even if financial institutions are being stabilized. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Kevin Sullivan</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fears]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Batter]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Across]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nick Chamie]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rodney Barker]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alex Potter]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Madrid]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mervyn King]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Milan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pablo Guidotti]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Toronto]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Warsaw]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brian Byrnes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Karla Adam]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bank of England]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Boeing Company]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[BOVESPA-Bolsa de Valores de Sao Paulo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Collins Stewart plc]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[FTSE Group]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[London School of Economics and Political Science]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[NEC Corporation]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Canada]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Seoul Metropolitan Government]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sony Corporation]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Torcuato Di Tella University]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Wachovia Corporation]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Trade Move Shakes Bolivia ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/18/AR2008101801883.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct. 18 -- The decision by the Bush administration to suspend trade preferences that benefit Bolivia has left workers here worried about the potential for widespread layoffs at a time when the nation is struggling to cope with the international financial crisis.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123850641" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123850641" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Trade]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Move]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Shakes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Christopher J. McMullen]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Humberto Sandalio]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ramon Quintana]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Emilio Pinto Marin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nueva Esperanza]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Philip Goldberg]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Peace Corps]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Regional Federation of Small Businesses]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Agency for International Development]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Embassy in Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Oil-Fueled Nation Feels Pinch ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/18/AR2008101801860.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has delighted in the economic meltdown in the United States, mocking the Bush administration for its bailout plan and predicting the end of American economic dominance. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Oil-Fueled]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nation]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Feels]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Pinch]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[OPEC]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[PFC Energy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Patrick Esteruelas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[RoseAnne Franco]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Eurasia Group Ltd.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ramon Espinasa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ricardo Sanguino]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Robert Bottome]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[International Energy Agency]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[JP Morgan Chase & Co.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Petroleos de Venezuela SA]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Persian Gulf States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombia's Uribe Said To Hinder Militia Probes ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603613.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 16 -- Far from pressing to uncover the truth, President Álvaro Uribe's U.S.-backed government has hindered investigations into links between paramilitary groups and the country's political establishment, a leading human rights group said in a report released Thursday. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Uribe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Said]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[To]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hinder]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Militia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Probes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mario Montoya]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rodrigo Quinonez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Congress]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As Election Looms, Chávez Steps Up Rhetoric ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503292.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela -- Carmen Godoy is sure the Yankees are plotting an invasion. She's heard her president say so over and over again in the decade he has been in power. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[As]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Looms,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chávez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Steps]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Up]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rhetoric]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carmen Godoy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caribbean]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mario Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Stephen Flanagan]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Moscow Kremlin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barry Levinson]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bernardo Alvarez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Lanz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Francisco Uson]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[La Paz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luis Vicente Leon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mario Isea]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Milos Alcalay]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Moscow]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Patrick Duddy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Salvador Allende]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Chile]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Navy]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S.S.R.]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Doubt, Anger Over Brazil Dams ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/13/AR2008101302539.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ PORTO VELHO, Brazil -- It is quiet here on the wrong side of progress. Hot wind blows dust across the dry bluffs. The brown river runs wide and placid.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123850875" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123850875" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Doubt,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Global Markets Fall Despite Reassurances ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101003156.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BERLIN, Oct. 10 -- Fear seized investors around the world Friday as stock markets dropped to levels not broached for several years. National leaders tried to intervene with reassurances and stopgap measures, to no avail. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Craig Whitlock and Blaine Harden</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fall]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Despite]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Reassurances]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Kazuyoshi Kaneko]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Silvio Berlusconi]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Takeo Nakazono]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Taro Aso]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Joshua Partlow]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[New Delhi]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Yamato Life Insurance]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ For Ousted Candidate, Fight Goes On ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002837.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ CARACAS, Venezuela -- Young and photogenic, Leopoldo López has been running the campaign of his political life, rummaging for votes here amid a warren of crowded slums and as far away as Venezuela's lawless western frontier. Polls show that the politician has won a strong following by promising a... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[For]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ousted]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Candidate,]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fight]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Goes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[On]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Leopoldo Lopez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Caracas]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Angelina Gonzalez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Aristobulo Isturiz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luis Vicente Leon]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Correa]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Enrique Mendoza]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fidel Castro]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Nueva Esparta]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Susana Zambrano]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[U.S. Congress]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Socialist Party]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuelan Institute for Data Analysis]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Miranda State]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ On the Sunny Beaches of Brazil, A Perplexing Inrush of Penguins ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO -- Not everyone in Rio de Janeiro has taken to the penguins quite the way Cecilia Breves has, but even for her, there is a learning curve. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[On]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sunny]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Brazil,]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Perplexing]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Inrush]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Penguins]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cecilia Breves]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lucia Estrella]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Benguela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Braga]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Antonio Busalacchi]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Jose Marengo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lauro Barcellos]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Recife]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rio Grande]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Rodrigo Maia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Salvador]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Thiago Muniz]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[University of Maryland]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Amazon Rain Forest]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Crisis Deepens Divisions in S. America ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002813.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 30 -- As his popularity has surged and his nation's booming economy has lifted thousands from poverty, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has largely refrained from the angry criticism of the United States that can be heard nearly any day from other South American...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123851163" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/world/southamerica;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=285123851163" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Deepens]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Divisions]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Buenos Aires]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Carlos Langoni]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Manaus]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michael Shifter]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Andres Schipani]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Brian Byrnes]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Voters in Ecuador Approve Constitution ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 28 -- Ecuadorans approved by a wide margin Sunday a new constitution that would expand the powers of President Rafael Correa and open the possibility that he could serve a decade in office. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Stephan Küffner</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Rafael Correa]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Quito]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Galapagos Islands]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Beatriz Astudillo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Evo Morales]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Guayaquil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Lucia Cordero]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vinicio Alvarado]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Secret Meeting Sparks Inquiry ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's inspector general's office is investigating a secret meeting at the presidential palace in April between top aides to President Álvaro Uribe and emissaries of a feared paramilitary warlord. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Meeting]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Sparks]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Inquiry]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Diego Fernando Murillo]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Mario Uribe]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Diego Alvarez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Cesar Mauricio Velasquez]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Francisco Ricaurte]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Ivan Velasquez]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Adam Isacson]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Henry Anaya]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Jorge Noguera]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Medellin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Michael Shifter]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Oscar Ivan Palacio]]></category>
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