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Argentine president: End farm protests
Apr 1 2008 11:56PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - President Cristina Fernandez blasted striking farmers at a rally of 20,000 supporters Tuesday, comparing their nearly three-week-old protest to a 1976 strike that sowed chaos one month before a military coup.
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Argentine president: End farm protests
Apr 1 2008 11:56PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - President Cristina Fernandez blasted striking farmers at a rally of 20,000 supporters Tuesday, comparing their nearly three-week-old protest to a 1976 strike that sowed chaos one month before a military coup.
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Reputed drug lord sentenced in Brazil
Apr 1 2008 11:56PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A reputed Colombian drug lord whose cartel is accused of having shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine was sentenced Tuesday to more than 30 years in prison in Brazil for crimes committed in that country.
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Castro reforms: DVDs, farms for Cubans
Apr 1 2008 10:09PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
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Castro reforms: DVDs, farms for Cubans
Apr 1 2008 10:09PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
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Castro reforms: DVDs, farms for Cubans
Apr 1 2008 10:09PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
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Castro reforms: DVDs, farms for Cubans
Apr 1 2008 10:09PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
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Cuba lends private farmers unused land
Apr 1 2008 5:00PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Communist Cuba is opening up unused land to private farmers and cooperatives as part of a sweeping effort to step up agricultural production.
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Colombia OKs mission to meet hostages
Apr 1 2008 3:34PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's president said Tuesday he had approved a French mission to try to meet with hostages held by leftist rebels, including gravely ill politician Ingrid Betancourt.
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Hotel bomber dies in Bolivia prison
Apr 1 2008 8:56AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivian officials say a California man convicted of hotel bombings that killed two people in Bolivia's capital has died in prison.
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Thanks Raul: Cubans can stay in hotels
Apr 1 2008 12:09AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.
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Thanks Raul: Cubans can stay in hotels
Apr 1 2008 12:09AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.
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Thanks Raul: Cubans can stay in hotels
Apr 1 2008 12:09AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.
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Thanks Raul: Cubans can stay in hotels
Apr 1 2008 12:09AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.
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Thanks Raul: Cubans can stay in hotels
Apr 1 2008 12:09AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.
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Thanks Raul: Cubans can stay in hotels
Apr 1 2008 12:09AM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Raul Castro's government opened luxury hotels and resorts to all Cubans Monday, ending a ban despised across the island as "tourist apartheid" and taking another step toward the creation of a consumer economy in the socialist state.
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