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Mexican Congress OKs terror finance bill
Feb 20 2007 11:16PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's lower house of Congress passed a bill Tuesday that provides up to 40 years in prison for people convicted of financing terrorist groups.
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Mexico to lobby for immigration reform
Feb 20 2007 10:41PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico plans to begin an aggressive lobbying effort in the United States to secure an immigration reform agreement, the country's new ambassador in Washington said Tuesday.
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Mexican prosecutor detained in killing
Feb 20 2007 7:45PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - An assistant state prosecutor in Mexico was detained for questioning in an investigation into the killing of an opposition politician and four others, and the passing of information to drug traffickers.
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Brazil's famed carnival winds down
Feb 20 2007 6:33PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Revelers packed Rio de Janeiro's beaches and danced in streets littered with pieces of glittery costumes Tuesday, soaking up the final hours of merriment after the climax of the city's world-famous carnival.
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Ex-guerrilla leads Colombia opposition
Feb 20 2007 1:52PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - The political scandal that forced Colombia's foreign minister to quit and put other close allies of President Alvaro Uribe in jail is being driven in large part by a rebel-turned-senator who has defied death threats to become the opposition's most fearless provocateur.
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3 charred bodies found in Guatemala
Feb 20 2007 2:32AM (CT)
EL JOCOTILLO, Guatemala (AP) - Police said they found the charred bodies of three Salvadoran representatives to the Central American Parliament and their driver Monday on a rural road outside Guatemala City.
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