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			<title><![CDATA[ Voice of America expands Latin American audience ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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MIAMI -- Facing a group of presidents loudly critical of Washington, the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcast is expanding its audience in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, VOA officials said.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Looking ahead, Brazil's farmers take up reforestation ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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LUCAS DO RIO VERDE, BRAZIL -- For nearly 20 years, Luiz Alberto Bortolini cleared trees and planted soybeans as fast as he could, one of many pioneers who turned this barren outpost into prosperous farmland.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 18,000 miles to Washington ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:12:55 EST</pubDate>
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Paulo Roberto Vieira stumbled into the Brazilian consulate on L Street NW bedraggled, nearly broke and at the end of his rope.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: Separate blasts kill 21 in Pakistani city of Peshawar ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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PAKISTAN A blast early Friday killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attacks by Islamist insurgents retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Digest ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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INDIA A major separatist leader in Indian-controlled Kashmir agreed Tuesday to take part in direct talks with New Delhi to settle a six-decades-long dispute over the Himalayan region.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Floods, mudslides kill at least 134 in El Salvador ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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VERAPAZ, EL SALVADOR  -- Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 134 people in El Salvador.
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			<title><![CDATA[ With slum school, Brazilian socialite targets intellectual gap ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Like her neighbors in Rio's elegant Flamengo district, Yvonne Bezerra de Mello enjoys the trappings of wealth, from riding show horses to escaping on weekends to a mountain estate north of the city.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Argentina scores points with free broadcasts of soccer games ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The opening minutes of the soccer game brought a quick goal, and Rubén Bres and the 15 guests who had joined him around his battered TV erupted in cheers. But they were happy not just for their team. They were happy they could even watch.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World digest: U.S., Colombia sign agreement on bases ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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SOUTH AMERICA In a private, low-key ceremony in Bogota on Friday, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers signed a pact to expand Washington's military presence in Colombia, a deal that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has called a threat to the region's security.
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			<title><![CDATA[ World Digest: U.N. inspectors enter Iranian nuclear fuel lab ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PAKISTAN The Pakistani army claimed advances in its eight-day-old offensive in a Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Sunday, while the militants' chief warned of more terrorist attacks around the country unless the military halts the assault.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela's Ch&amp;#225;vez Takes a Mighty Swing at Golf ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn't take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends...
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			<title><![CDATA[ Politics and Prison in Venezuela ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chávez's government says Julio Cesar Rivas is a violent militant intent on fomenting civil war.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Rio de Janeiro Awarded 2016 Summer Cames; Chicago Eliminated in First Round ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Despite a personal endorsement from President Obama, Chicago is eliminated from consideration early while Rio de Janeiro is awarded the 2016 Summer Games.
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			<dc:creator>Robin Givhan and Amy Shipley</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cuba Pins Hopes on New For-Profit Farms ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CEIBA DEL AGUA, Cuba -- Faced with the smothering inefficiencies of a state-run economy and unable to feed his people without massive imports of food, Cuban leader Raúl Castro has put his faith in compatriots like Esther Fuentes and his little farm out in the sticks.
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			<dc:creator>William Booth</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Concert for Peace Draws Hundreds of Thousands in Havana ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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HAVANA, Sept. 20 -- Rock-and-roll diplomacy came to the communist isle on a smoldering afternoon, as hundreds of thousands of Cubans filled the Plaza of the Revolution on Sunday and sang along to a dozen international musical acts led by the Colombian singer and peace activist Juanes.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama's Worldwide Star Power Finds Limits ]]></title>
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Eight months into his presidency, Barack Obama has become a global celebrity, far more popular abroad than he is at home and sometimes eclipsing foreign leaders among their own people.
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			<dc:creator>Michael D. Shear and Howard Schneider</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Closes Military Post in Ecuador ]]></title>
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QUITO, Ecuador, Sept. 18 -- The last 15 U.S. troops in Ecuador left the country's Manta air base Friday, officially closing the American military post in what Ecuador's government calls a recovery of sovereignty.
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			<dc:creator>Gonzalo Solano</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Day of the Gaucho Waning in Argentina ]]></title>
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MAGDALENA, Argentina -- Cattle once ruled the seemingly endless grasslands here, delivering decades of prosperity for Argentina and producing a brand familiar to the world -- natural, grass-fed beef.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ South American Leaders Assail U.S. Access to Colombian Military Bases ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 28 -- South American leaders meeting Friday at a special summit in Argentina lashed out at the United States and Colombia over an agreement that gives Washington access to seven military bases in this country.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S.-Colombia Strategic Accord Prompts Questions at Home, Across Region ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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PUERTO SALGAR, Colombia -- On a recent sweltering day, Colombian fighter jets took to the sky from this country's most important air base, while mechanics remounted the engine of a medical evacuation plane.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero and Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombian Senate Approves Bill Allowing Uribe to Seek Third Term ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 20 -- President Álvaro Uribe, whose government has forged a close alliance with the United States to fight Marxist guerrillas and drug traffickers, stepped closer to extending his presidency with Colombian Senate approval of a bill permitting him to run for a third term.
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Plan Raises Ire in Latin America ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 7 -- A U.S. plan to deploy troops and station aircraft at several Colombian military bases has generated controversy across Latin America, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez warning that it could lead to war and the president of Brazil saying that he did not like the idea...
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Faces Criticism Over Extraditing Minor Colombian Drug-Trafficking Suspects ]]></title>
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia -- In his seven years as president, Álvaro Uribe has complied with hundreds of U.S. extradition requests, furnishing the American justice system with cocaine kingpins like Gilberto the "Chess Player" Rodríguez, once head of the powerful Cali cartel, and "Don Diego" Montoya,...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bonds Without Borders: Global Funds Can Take Your Portfolio Anywhere ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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The concept of the global stock fund is well accepted. If U.S. bank stocks scare fund managers, maybe they can find banks with better risk-return profiles in Brazil or India. There's not much to buy in Detroit, but perhaps managers spot value in Toyota or BMW. Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Philip Morris...
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			<dc:creator>Andrew Tanzer</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela's Drug-Trafficking Role Is Growing Fast, U.S. Report Says ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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BOGOTA, Colombia, July 18 -- A report for the U.S. Congress on drug smuggling through Venezuela concludes that corruption at high levels of President Hugo Chávez's government and state aid to Colombia's drug-trafficking guerrillas have made Venezuela a major launching pad for cocaine bound for the...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Iran's Rumored Nicaraguan 'Mega-Embassy' Set Off Alarms in U.S. ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua --  For months, the reports percolated in Washington and other capitals. Iran was constructing a major beachhead in Nicaragua as part of a diplomatic push into Latin America, featuring huge investment deals, new embassies and even TV programming from the Islamic republic.
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			<dc:creator>Anne-Marie O'Connor and Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ U.S. Enlists Costa Rican President to Try to Broker Peace in Honduras ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 7 -- Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for helping resolve Central America's civil wars, will mediate the increasingly volatile confrontation between deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and the de facto government that ousted...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero and Glenn Kessler</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Zelaya's Plane Not Allowed to Land in Honduras ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 5 --  In a high-stakes standoff that played out in the skies over Honduras, the airplane carrying ousted president Manuel Zelaya was forced to circle the nation's main airport twice before flying away Sunday evening after coup leaders who deposed Zelaya blocked his lan...
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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>
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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.
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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>
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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...
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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>
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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.
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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>
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CARACAS, Venezuela, July 1 -- An ally was in trouble, toppled in a military coup. And the television cameras were rolling.
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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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Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is preparing to return to his country, days after the military pushed him from office and into exile.
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			<title><![CDATA[ New Honduran Leadership Flouts Worldwide Censure ]]></title>
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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.
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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>
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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.
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombia's Uribe Faces a New White House Approach Toward Latin America ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=cfaaf2ceb971ecc9bd40b1b0e51bdd14</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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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>
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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...
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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>
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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...
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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>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Marco Sibaja and Alan Clendenning</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Semi-Submarines, Stealthily Plying Pacific, Arrive as a Way to Smuggle Cocaine ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=4e4b994e9eeac1b3038dde5a21c7d043</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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MEXICO CITY -- When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke.
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			<dc:creator>William Booth and Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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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>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ 'Aló Presidente,' Are You Still Talking? ]]></title>
			<link>http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=48b90ae7e01c865d60d8c9254b7bf838</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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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>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Alan Clendenning</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ecuador Pursues Unusual Carbon-Credit Plan to Leave Oil Untapped ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombian Farmers Get Broad Incentives to Forgo Coca Crops ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Ecuadoran Frontier Town a Hub for Drug-Running Rebels, Colombia Charges ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombian Defense Minister Santos Considers 2010 Run for President ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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,...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ An Adoring Home For the Green Jacket ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero and Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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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>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<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>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Dominant]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Theme]]></category>
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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>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Gives]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Book]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Latin]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[American]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[History]]></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>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson and Karen DeYoung</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Urges]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Partnership']]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Countries]]></category>
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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>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Economic]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Woes,]]></category>
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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>
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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.
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			<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>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/14/AR2009041403199.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Scott Wilson</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama Lifts Broad Set Of Sanctions Against Cuba ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/13/AR2009041302965.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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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.
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			<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>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Lucien Chauvin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Argentine Politics Reacts to Financial Woes ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040303555.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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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>
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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...
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			<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>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Protectionist]]></category>
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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>
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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.
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			<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>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Next Salvadoran Leader Vows Moderate Rule ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>William Booth</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Brazil's President to Seek a Change in U.S. Approach ]]></title>
			<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031303032.html?wprss=rss_world/southamerica</link>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Fight for 8-Year-Old Colors Relationship Between U.S., Brazil ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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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.
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			<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>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Relations]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Roiled]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[--]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Highlights]]></category>
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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>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Snap]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Up]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Hostages']]></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>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>William Booth</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[In]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[El]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Salvador]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Vote,]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Paleontologists Strike Fossil Gold in Colombia ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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."
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Paleontologists]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Strike]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fossil]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Gold]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[in]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Out-of-Work]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Financiers]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Reap]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Dividends]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Seeing]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[the]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[World]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela's Determined Voice of Dissent ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Determined]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Voice]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Dissent]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Cabbies Steer Blogger to Buenos Aires's Diverse Culinary Offerings ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
			<category><![CDATA[Cabbies]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Steer]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Blogger]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[to]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Buenos]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Culinary]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Latin America's Document-Driven Revolutions ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuelans Vote on Chávez's Term ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Chávez Wins Removal of Term Limits ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Removal]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Despite Feats, President of Bolivia Stirs Fierce Debate ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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ACHACACHI, Bolivia -- The barefoot teen in the potato field acknowledged that his family of 12 still had nearly no money.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela Decides Term Limits Today  Chávez Bid to Run Again Leads Slightly ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela's Chávez Sets Up Obstacles for Opponents Who Won in Fall Elections ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Pride of Argentina Falls on Hard Times -- Drought Kills Off Cattle by Thousands ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[of]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Falls]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Times]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Jews in S. America Increasingly Uneasy ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero and Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ A Protected Forest's Fast Decline ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Protected]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Forest's]]></category>
			<category><![CDATA[Fast]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Bolivians Appear To Back Charter ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ As Bolivians Vote on New Constitution, Opposition Finds Itself Divided ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. 24 -- Just six months ago, the enemies of President Evo Morales seemed brash with their power.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category>
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			<category><![CDATA[Divided]]></category>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Obama and Chávez Start Sparring Early ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ To Rid Slums of Drug Gangs, Police in Rio de Janeiro Try War Tactics ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:45:54 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<title><![CDATA[ To Rid Slums of Drug Gangs,Police in Rio de Janeiro Try War Tactics ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Brazil's Tough Drunken-Driving Law Collides With Carnival Culture ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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."
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ An American Conductor's Bolivian Composition ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Economic Storm Batters Argentina's Breadbasket ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Unable to Escape Global Crisis, South American Nations Take Financial Action ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow and Lucien Chauvin</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Short of Skilled Workers, Brazilian Companies School Future Workforce ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Joshua Partlow</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Venezuela's Chávez Again Seeks to Scrap Term Limits ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ Colombia Reels After Investment Schemes; Scandal Has Riveted Residents, Shaken the Economy, Damaged Uribe's Standing ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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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>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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.
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			<dc:creator>Colum Lynch</dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ In Sea Exercises, A Sign for Obama ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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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...
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			<dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator>
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