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Rumsfeld: Venezuela build-up is concern
Oct 2 2006 10:47PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - The recent military build-up in Venezuela by U.S. nemesis President Hugo Chavez has other countries in the region worried that the weapons could end up in the hands of terrorists, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday.
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Brazil's ex-president wins Senate seat
Oct 2 2006 10:29PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Former President Fernando Collor de Mello, forced from office in a corruption scandal in 1992 and barred from politics for eight years, has won a seat in Brazil's Senate, electoral officials said Monday.
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Nicaragua lobbies for second $18B canal
Oct 2 2006 10:13PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Nicaragua lobbied Monday for support for an $18 billion canal linking the Pacific and Atlantic, saying a second international waterway is needed to handle the world's booming shipping business.
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Mexico criticizes plan for border fence
Oct 2 2006 9:27PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government on Monday saying a plan to build hundreds of miles of fencing on their common border would damage relations.
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Colombia group sets conditions for talks
Oct 2 2006 9:26PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Latin America's oldest and strongest guerrilla group on Monday set conditions for proposed peace talks with President Alvaro Uribe's hard-line government, calling for "clear guarantees" from the government on a prisoner swap.
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Officials seek Brazil plane crash cause
Oct 2 2006 8:34PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Investigators on Monday were trying to determine how two new aircraft equipped with the latest anti-collision technology clipped each other in flight. A crash that followed killed 155 people, the nation's worst air disaster.
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Mexicans marks anniversary of massacre
Oct 2 2006 8:25PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A 1968 massacre of students in Mexico City remains a "wound in the national conscience," a presidential spokesman said Monday on the 38th anniversary of the killings.
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Rumsfeld says he has Bush's confidence
Oct 2 2006 7:15PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, facing renewed criticism about his handling of the Iraq war, has a simple yet emphatic answer for his critics: "No, no, no."
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Alckmin forces runoff in Brazil election
Oct 2 2006 3:57PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Former Sao Paulo Gov. Geraldo Alckmin forced a presidential runoff election by capitalizing on Brazilians' anger over scandals that reached ever-closer to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Baduel: Venezuela buildup isn't a threat
Oct 2 2006 3:10PM (CT)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Venezuela's defense minister said Monday his country's military buildup isn't a threat to the region as he joined Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and counterparts from across the Americas in discussing possible joint humanitarian missions.
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Chavez says he has White House informant
Oct 2 2006 4:02AM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he has received warnings from within the White House that the Bush administration is plotting to assassinate him or topple his left-leaning government.
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