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Bolivia to sign nationalization deals
Oct 28 2006 11:49PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales' government completed an ambitious oil and gas nationalization plan late Saturday, with the last-minute signing of contracts allowing international companies to continue operating in Bolivia the country under state controls.
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Mexican president sends police to Oaxaca
Oct 28 2006 10:54PM (CT)
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - Shop owners shuttered their businesses and demonstrators built up street barricades Saturday after President Vicente Fox ordered federal police to intervene in this picturesque city torn by more than five months of protests and violence.
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Fidel Castro appears on Cuban television
Oct 28 2006 10:21PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - The ailing Fidel Castro appeared on Cuban state television for the first time in more than a month Saturday, looking thin and tired but walking around and ridiculing recent rumors of his death.
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3 police killed, 1 decapitated in Mexico
Oct 28 2006 9:38PM (CT)
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - The bodies of three state police officers, one of whom had been decapitated, were found Saturday in a sport utility vehicle abandoned outside the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, police said.
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Brazil's president revives rhetoric
Oct 28 2006 8:19PM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Facing a surprisingly rough campaign, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has revived the populist rhetoric he had largely shed since taking office.
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Brazilian debate focuses on corruption
Oct 28 2006 12:54AM (CT)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Challenger Geraldo Alckmin accused President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of letting corruption run unchecked in his government, while the incumbent responded in a televised debate that he was leading the fight against malfeasance.
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