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75,000 protest tortilla prices in Mexico
Jan 31 2007 11:35PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - About 75,000 trade unionists, farmers and leftists marched through downtown Mexico City on Wednesday to protest price increases for basic foods like tortillas _ the staple of Mexico's poor _ and to demand a change in economic policy.
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Chavez gains free rein in Venezuela
Jan 31 2007 11:10PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree, a move critics said propels Venezuela toward dictatorship.
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Lesbians register Mexico's 1st gay union
Jan 31 2007 10:54PM (CT)
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) - A lesbian couple registered what officials called Mexico's first gay civil union on Wednesday in the northern city of Saltillo.
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Argentines block Uruguay bridge routes
Jan 31 2007 10:46PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Hundreds of demonstrators temporarily blockaded the last of three Argentine bridge crossings to Uruguay on Wednesday, sealing all major land routes in an environmental protest against a wood-pulp plant rising on Uruguay's side of the border.
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Senegalese migrants buried in Barbados
Jan 31 2007 10:43PM (CT)
BRIDGETOWN Barbados (AP) - Ten Senegalese migrants who had apparently set sail for islands off Africa but perished as their boat drifted across the Atlantic to Barbados were buried Wednesday, officials said.
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Cuba marks 6 months without Fidel Castro
Jan 31 2007 8:21PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cubans lined up Wednesday to buy newspapers featuring photographs of a stronger-looking Fidel Castro, with the communist government eager to show he is recovering after a half-year out of power even though a new collective leadership has taken firm control.
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Venezuela rejects U.S. official's remarks
Jan 31 2007 2:01AM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - The Venezuelan government rejected comments by a senior U.S. official who called President Hugo Chavez a threat to democracy, saying they revealed that Washington's overtures for rapprochement were insincere.
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4 more Colombian politicians face probe
Jan 31 2007 12:35AM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - The Supreme Court opened preliminary investigations into four more politicians for alleged ties to illegal right-wing militias after it was revealed they signed a 2001 letter of understanding with the paramilitary groups, the court's president said Tuesday.
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Ecuador leader's backers invade Congress
Jan 31 2007 12:10AM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Supporters of leftist President Rafael Correa armed with sticks and stones fought their way into the Congress building Tuesday, demanding lawmakers call a referendum on whether the country's constitution should be rewritten.
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