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Guatemala urged on adoption procedures
Jan 11 2007 11:47PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Guatemala must improve its procedures for adoptions by American parents or the U.S. will no longer provide visas for the babies, a State Department official said Thursday.
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Ex-Colombian official describes escape
Jan 11 2007 11:37PM (CT)
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) - In six years as a captive, Fernando Araujo held onto his sanity by keeping to a daily routine and lingering on every task _ even drinking a cup of water _ for as long as possible.
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Ecuador, Colombia OK deal on fumigation
Jan 11 2007 11:30PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador's president-elect said Thursday a diplomatic spat over Colombia's fumigation of coca has been resolved, a disagreement that had spurred debate over the U.S. drug policy and prompted Ecuador to withdraw its ambassador.
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Extradition sought of church leaders
Jan 11 2007 10:45PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday sought the extradition of two church leaders arrested in the United States on money smuggling charges.
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Argentine judge orders arrest of Peron
Jan 11 2007 10:37PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - A judge Thursday ordered the arrest of former President Isabel Peron _ wife of Argentine strongman Juan Peron _ for questioning into alleged links to a right-wing death squad before she was ousted in a 1976 military coup.
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Political clashes kill 2 in Bolivia
Jan 11 2007 9:57PM (CT)
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AP) - Protesters seeking the ouster of a Bolivian state governor for his opposition to leftist President Evo Morales battled with the governor's supporters Thursday in clashes that left two dead and more than 60 injured, authorities said.
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Brazilian takes command of Haiti troops
Jan 11 2007 9:43PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Brazilian general took command of U.N. peacekeepers in Haiti on Thursday and said he plans no change in the strategy to stabilize the troubled Caribbean nation.
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Nicaragua's Ortega signs trade pact
Jan 11 2007 9:13PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Nicaraguan revolutionary Daniel Ortega's first day as president was spent signing a socialist trade pact with allies Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba, and planning a meeting with Iran's hard-line president, actions sure to irritate the U.S. government.
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Protesters demand closure of Gitmo base
Jan 11 2007 5:08PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO, Cuba (AP) - Cindy Sheehan marched with the mothers of a Guantanamo prisoner, a New York firefighter killed on 9/11 and other peace activists Thursday to demand the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay be closed five years after the first terror suspects arrived.
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Rights group faults Chavez
Jan 11 2007 4:59PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's press freedoms and the independence of its courts have eroded under President Hugo Chavez, a leading human rights group said Thursday.
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Nicaragua's Ortega returns to power
Jan 11 2007 6:34AM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Former Marxist guerrilla Daniel Ortega celebrated his return to power in Nicaragua with two of Washington's biggest critics _ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivia's Evo Morales _ who welcomed him as an ally in their campaign to curb U.S. influence in Latin America.
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Activist: Cuba's Valdes Tamayo dies
Jan 11 2007 12:24AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cuban dissident Manuel Valdes Tamayo, one of 75 activists jailed in a massive crackdown in 2003 and released a year later for health reasons, died Wednesday night, according to one of the island's leading activists. He was 50.
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Mexican lawyer to help U.S. journalist
Jan 11 2007 12:00AM (CT)
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) - An award-winning human rights lawyer said Wednesday he will work with others seeking justice for U.S. activist-journalist Bradley Roland Will, who was shot dead in Oaxaca in October.
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