Bolivia ordered a senior US diplomat to leave the country within 72 hours after President Evo Morales accused him of participating in a "conspiracy" against Bolivia's far-left government. Francisco Ma…

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Bolivian President Evo Morales expels U.S. diplomat Francisco Martinez identified in media reports as second secretary Diplomat "contacted ex-police officers," said Morales U.S. State Depart…

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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – President Evo Morales on Monday ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave Bolivia for allegedly conspiring with opposition groups, further straining tense relations six months after he e…

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Bolivian President Evo Morales has ordered a U.S. diplomat out of the country in the second such expulsion since September.The president on Monday declared Francisco Martinez persona non grata, accusi…

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Bolivian President Evo Morales has ordered the expulsion of a US diplomat he accused last week of colluding with opposition groups in recent unrest. He said Francisco Martinez, a political officer at…

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LA PAZ (Reuters) – Two weeks after he accused the CIA of conspiring against his energy policies, leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales expelled a U.S. Embassy official on Tuesday.

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Bolivian President Evo Morales, pictured, on Monday ordered the expulsion of senior U.S. diplomat Francisco Martinez. Martinez, he said, 'was in permanent contact with opposition groups,' which he sai…

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RIO DE JANEIRO — Female landless workers occupied Brazil's agriculture ministry, a vital port, a farm owned by a paper company and other property on Monday to demand faster agrarian reform and a tur…

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L A PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales today ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave Bolivia for allegedly conspiring with opposition groups, further straining tense relations six months after he exp…

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, the Merval index dropped 3.1% and Chile's IPSA logged a 2.2% decline. Among exchange-traded funds, the iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index Fund (ILF) fell 3.6%, halving its gains from Wednesd…

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(AFP)–Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday ordered the expulsion of a senior U.S. diplomat in the country, accusing him of participating in a " conspiracy" against Bolivia's far-left government…

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transferred that tax break to consumers, resulting in sticker-price reductions of as much as 7.4% . Car sales began rising again after grinding to a halt in mid-October, once the credit crisis hit

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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – President Evo Morales on Monday ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave Bolivia for allegedly conspiring with opposition groups, further straining tense relations six months after he e…

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LA PAZ , Bolivia — President Evo Morales on Monday ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave the country, alleging he was conspiring with opposition groups. The leftist leader already had expelled the U.S. a…

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plans to start nonstop service this winter between Atlanta and Brasilia, Brazil. Atlanta-based Delta (NYSE: DAL) will be the only U.S. airline to fly nonstop to Brasilia starting Dec. 17, pending gov…

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In the case of a nine-year-old girl in Brazil who had an abortion after being raped, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said the excommunication of the mother and doctors 'is just,' as a pregnancy terminat…

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Rio de Janeiro – The world of Brazilian football was again at Ronaldo's feet on Monday, just hours after the veteran striker proved wrong those who doubted his chances of recovering from a third knee …

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Bolivian President Evo Morales, pictured, on Monday ordered the expulsion of senior U.S. diplomat Francisco Martinez. Martinez, he said, 'was in permanent contact with opposition groups,' which he sai…

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The U.S. is at a crossroads regarding ethanol production. Should it follow the lead of Brazil and its devoting of prime agricultural land to sugar cane for ethanol? Environmental concerns are among th…

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In 2008, El Salvador had the second-highest homicide rate in the world. Only Iraq, a war zone, had a higher rate. From December 2006 to December 2008, Ethan James worked as a photographer for the da…

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-(Dow Jones)- Brazil's motor vehicle sales rose slightly in February thanks to a temporary government tax break that reduces car prices, the National Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, or Anfa…

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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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I VISITED El Salvador in 1989, in the month before the infamous tipping-point killings by government forces of six Jesuit professors, their housekeeper, and her daughter. The war was in its ninth year…

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In the context of continuing heightened global risk aversion, 2009 is likely to be a difficult year for many Latin America countries to secure debt financing from international capital markets. Ecuado…

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Managua.– The head of the Inter-American Development Bank said the regional lender needs to increase its capital as it expects demand for loans in Latin America and the Caribbean to surge this yea…

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El Salvador's main political parties have appealed to voters in their final rallies ahead of next Sunday's presidential election. Governing conservative party candidate Rodrigo Avila told supporters …

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Rio de Janeiro – VetcoGray, a GE Oil & Gas business, has signed a four- year frame agreement with OGX Petroleo e Gas to supply subsea wellhead systems and casing strings for an exploratory drilling ca…

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Declaring that "life must always be protected", a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church's decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old rape victim who had a lif…

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THE Royal Northern College of Music might not be the first place where you would look for a feast of Brazilian music, but that is what this brilliant young guitar quartet – who started out as a scra…

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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been drawn into a row over an abortion carried out on a nine year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather. Brazil’s Roman Catholic churc…

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Beijing Olympic triple jump champion Maurren Maggi returned to training on Monday. The pride of Brazil's track and field athletes returned after receiving a huge scare in a Paris track meet on Februar…

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Most Latin American equities closed lower on Friday, largely tracking movement on Wall Street where job losses in the U.S. continued to climb last month.

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Polls on the March 15 presidential vote show the election will likely open a new progressive chapter in El Salvador’s long, violent history of war and dictatorships with a victory by the left-win…

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A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of th…

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), to stock his bar. “I knew nothing,” he remembers. “She taught me all about how to keep track of stock and sales, how to work out what my potential was.” Three years ago, Rose approved a R…

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Uganda 7 Brazil 12 Italy 17 Thailand 00 China 21 Japan 05 Uganda’s campaign at the 7s World Cup ended with a 12-7 lose to Brazil in the Bowl quarter- final yesterday. But former Olympic athlete,…

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A Vatican cleric is defending a Brazilian archbishop's decision to excommunicate several doctors who performed an abortion last week on a nine-year-old girl who became pregnant with twins after allege…

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BUENOS AIRES, Mar 7 (IPS) – After 26 years raising three children in an economically comfortable marriage, Dora finally understood that staying with her husband meant "choosing death." "I had to lock …

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Personal message Thought you might be interested in this article from In These Times. El Salvador’s Left Turn? Mixed results for el frente in the countrys congressional elections. By Ja…

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Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development could finance as much as a third of Embraer's sales this year, the plane maker's CEO said.

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The Brazilian economy has showed signs of improvement in the first two months of 2009, but analysts said worries about Latin America's biggest economy still linger as impacts of the global financial c…

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By Karl Plume CHICAGO, USA (Reuters): The investment climate in Latin America's grain sector has been soured by Venezuela's seizure of a Cargill-owned rice mill, but major democracies in the region wi…

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MEXICO CITY, March 6 (Xinhua) — Colombia and El Salvador signed on Friday an agreement to increase support for Salvador's bio-fuel production, according to reports reaching here from San Salvador. T…

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The former Santos soccer star who currently plays for England's Manchester City, Robinho arrived on Friday in Brazil. The player is suffering from a nagging injury in his right thigh. For this reason,…

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BRASILIA — Brazil, the world's second-largest wheat importer last year, will seek to buy about 3 million metric tons of the grain from producers other than Argentina this year.Argentina, which usual…

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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has sharply criticised a Catholic archbishop who ordered the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion. "As a…

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RIO DE JANEIRO, March 6 (Xinhua) — President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday he will urge U.S. President Barack Obama to see Latin America in the light of its development during their upcoming …

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