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Chavez gets a cool reception in Bolivia
Mar 10 2007 11:55PM (CT)
TRINIDAD, Bolivia (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited flood-ravaged Bolivia on Saturday to show off the fact that his country has pledged 10 times more aid than the Bush administration. But local leaders gave him a cool reception, accusing him of meddling in Bolivian politics.
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Chavez gets a cool reception in Bolivia
Mar 10 2007 11:55PM (CT)
TRINIDAD, Bolivia (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited flood-ravaged Bolivia on Saturday to show off the fact that his country has pledged 10 times more aid than the Bush administration. But local leaders gave him a cool reception, accusing him of meddling in Bolivian politics.
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U.S. acknowledges Colombia operation
Mar 10 2007 11:11PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - On the eve of a visit by President Bush, the U.S. Embassy confirmed Saturday that American and Colombian soldiers had conducted a joint operation in the southern stronghold of leftist rebels who are holding three U.S. military contractors.
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Bush signals disdain for Hugo Chavez
Mar 10 2007 9:57PM (CT)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president on Saturday, courting another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to co-opt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand, Hugo Chavez.
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Bush signals disdain for Hugo Chavez
Mar 10 2007 9:57PM (CT)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president on Saturday, courting another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to co-opt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand, Hugo Chavez.
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Bush signals disdain for Hugo Chavez
Mar 10 2007 9:57PM (CT)
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president on Saturday, courting another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to co-opt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand, Hugo Chavez.
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Volcano ash delays Puerto Rico flights
Mar 10 2007 9:28PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Volanic ash from the Caribbean island of Montserrat disrupted airport traffic in Puerto Rico Saturday, prompting delays and cancellations by several airlines.
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8 killed in Mexico bus crash
Mar 10 2007 8:07PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Eight people were killed and 11 were injured Saturday when a bus slammed into a tractor trailer carrying aluminum beams in northern Mexico, a government news agency reported.
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Mexico: Threats won't end drug crackdown
Mar 10 2007 5:24PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Saturday that drug traffickers' threats against his government would not stop a military crackdown against them, and he demanded that the United States do more to fight the sale and consumption of drugs domestically.
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Some Guantanamo inmates able to garden
Mar 10 2007 5:00PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A select group of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been allowed to garden for the first time, a military spokesman said.
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Chavez leads rally against Bush visit
Mar 10 2007 5:28AM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Nearly 20,000 fans gathered at a stadium in Buenos Aires _ not to watch soccer but to hear Hugo Chavez bash George W. Bush. And the Venezuelan leader didn't disappoint them.
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Chavez leads rally against Bush visit
Mar 10 2007 5:28AM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Nearly 20,000 fans gathered at a stadium in Buenos Aires _ not to watch soccer but to hear Hugo Chavez bash George W. Bush. And the Venezuelan leader didn't disappoint them.
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U.S. holds first hearings at Gitmo
Mar 10 2007 4:51AM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The U.S. began a series of secret hearings Friday to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders at its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be declared "enemy combatants" who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals.
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81 Chinese immigrants detained in Mexico
Mar 10 2007 1:20AM (CT)
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - Federal police detained 81 Chinese immigrants and 22 immigration agents on Friday after the Chinese were discovered hiding in the Cancun airport terminal, possibly with the protection of Mexican immigration officers.
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Mexico exhumes elderly woman's body
Mar 10 2007 12:54AM (CT)
VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) - Specialists from the National Human Rights Commission exhumed the body of a 73-year-old woman allegedly raped by four Mexican soldiers last month, amid claims that state investigators committed errors in handling the case.
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Salvadoran woman believed to be 128 dies
Mar 10 2007 12:33AM (CT)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - Salvadorans buried the country's oldest known living person on Friday: Cruz Hernandez, who was 128 years old according to the government. Hernandez was born May 3, 1878, according to her government-issued identity card.
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