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China seeks to join Latin American bank
Mar 17 2007 11:31PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - China is seeking to join the Inter-American Development Bank, Latin America's largest financing institution, as a way to fuel its economic development and increase its influence in the region, officials said Saturday.
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Mexico opens sewage treatment plant
Mar 17 2007 11:26PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A waste water treatment plant that Mexican officials say will help prevent pollution of U.S. waterways was inaugurated Saturday in the city of Mexicali, across the border from Calexico, Calif.
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Guantanamo detainee aims to stall trial
Mar 17 2007 10:00PM (CT)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Lawyers for an Australian detainee at the U.S. military camp at Guantanamo Bay said Saturday they have filed an injunction to stall his trial on charges of providing material support for terrorism.
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Reports detail state of press freedom
Mar 17 2007 9:48PM (CT)
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) - Some leftist governments in Latin America have become increasingly intolerant of criticism, while journalists in the United States have come under growing pressure to identify their sources, delegates at a regional newspaper industry meeting said Saturday.
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Nicaragua opposition slams parole deal
Mar 17 2007 8:34PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - A former president convicted of money laundering and embezzlement was freed from the conditions of his parole and allowed to travel around the country, a move critics said Saturday was a ploy by President Daniel Ortega to weaken the opposition.
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Cuban dissidents' wives mark crackdown
Mar 17 2007 6:03PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Forty Cuban women took turns Saturday standing behind fake prison bars to symbolize their loved ones' arrest during a government crackdown on dissidents four years ago.
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Mexico seizes $206M in drug money
Mar 17 2007 4:52AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's attorney general said the $206 million in cash seized from a luxury Mexico City house was connected to one of the hemisphere's largest networks for trafficking pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in methamphetamines.
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