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Chavez: U.S. spreading invasion rumors
Apr 3 2006 10:13PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez Monday dismissed as ridiculous suggestions that Venezuela has territorial designs on the Netherlands Antillies, and accused the United States of spreading rumors.
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Pentagon releases new Gitmo transcripts
Apr 3 2006 8:21PM (CT)
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - In 2,733 pages of declassified documents released Monday to The Associated Press, men accused of helping terrorist groups or Afghanistan's former Taliban regime pleaded for freedom while U.S. military officers often painstakingly tried to find holes in their stories.
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Mexican papers probe missing journalists
Apr 3 2006 7:20PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Dozens of Mexican newspapers frustrated by fruitless police probes of slain and missing journalists simultaneously published the first in a series of reports on the cases Monday.
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Guatemalan youths whipped by parents
Apr 3 2006 6:34PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Four young men accused of trying to rob a school were whipped by their parents Monday in a sentence dictated by Mayan elders in western Guatemala, a police official said.
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Violent protests mar start of Brazil forum
Apr 3 2006 4:56PM (CT)
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) - Demonstrators opposed to the lending practices of Latin America's biggest development bank clashed with police Monday in protests that marred the start of the bank's annual meeting. As many as 40 people were hurt.
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Chavez tightens grip on energy resources
Apr 3 2006 4:03PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez has tightened his grip on Venezuela's energy resources, following through on threats to punish international companies that resist government control of the nation's oil fields.
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Mexico seeks additional Indian lawmakers
Apr 3 2006 3:59PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico has redrawn its congressional districts to try to increase the number of Indian lawmakers in a nation where the indigenous minority has long been on the margins of politics, the government said Monday.
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More immigrants getting free flights home
Apr 3 2006 1:05PM (CT)
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) - U.S. marshals unlock the prisoners' leg shackles, body chains and handcuffs when green jungle and turquoise sea come into close view. As the government-owned MD-83 airliner bumps to the ground at the small San Salvador airport, the 44 men and five women being deported home to El Salvador cheer. One man belts out a few bars of a Tom Petty song: "I'm free-ee...."
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Badly needed cops hard to find in Haiti
Apr 3 2006 10:02AM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Gang members, pistols tucked underneath their sport shirts, watch idly from a street corner as children walk to school and housewives carry food home from a market. Not a policeman is in sight.
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Guatemalans blow up airstrips in drug war
Apr 3 2006 9:58AM (CT)
EL SACRIFICIO, Guatemala (AP) - Huddled together aboard two vintage tanks, 40 soldiers plow through dense jungle on a four-hour journey into a little-known battlefield of the drug war. Their mission, here in Guatemala's wild north: to blow up dozens of clandestine airstrips used by planes laden with Colombian cocaine.
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Venezuelans train for civilian militias
Apr 3 2006 3:21AM (CT)
CHARALLAVE, Venezuela (AP) - The women, some trembling, grasp the assault rifles and awkwardly lower themselves into sniper positions as they take aim and fire at white targets in the distance. Dressed in jeans and sneakers, the women are the unlikely heart of a new civilian militia being trained as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warns his country must be ready for a "war of resistance" against the United States.
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Youth vote critical in Mexican election
Apr 3 2006 2:54AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - One presidential hopeful compares himself to Mexico's under-17 soccer team. Another's campaign features students, rock bands and dancers. A third hosts rallies in trendy nightclubs.
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