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Mexico to extend anti-drug operations
Dec 14 2006 10:17PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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Uribe ally accused of ties with militias
Dec 14 2006 7:07PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A political ally of President Alvaro Uribe is under investigation for allegedly doing business with illegal right-wing militias as head of a company that sells fruit for shipment to the United States and Europe.
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Cuba vows to defy U.S. efforts at change
Dec 14 2006 5:20PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba vowed to defy U.S. efforts for economic and political change on the island in a front-page editorial Thursday in the Communist Party's newspaper that also referred to dissidents as "mercenaries" and "counterrevolutionary puppies."
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Poll: 1 in 4 Cubans OK with freedoms
Dec 14 2006 5:03PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - About one-quarter of Cubans interviewed in the island's two biggest cities are satisfied with their freedom to choose what they do with their lives, according to a poll released Thursday.
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Gunmen kidnap 10 children in Haiti
Dec 14 2006 8:07AM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Gunmen abducted 10 children after hijacking a school bus and another car Wednesday in brazen daylight assaults, according to local media reports.
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Mexican first lady's cousin killed
Dec 14 2006 1:24AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A cousin of Mexico's first lady was found dead of gunshot wounds just outside Mexico City, authorities said Wednesday.
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300 Mazahua Indians seize Mexican plant
Dec 14 2006 12:16AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A group of about 300 Mazahua Indians briefly seized a water treatment plant on Mexico City's western outskirts Wednesday and temporarily cut off one of the main sources of water for the metropolis of 18 million people, the National Water Commission said.
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Mexico decries abuses of migrant workers
Dec 14 2006 12:12AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Wednesday that many of the illegal migrants from Central and South America who pass through Mexico on their way to the United States are abused by criminals and by authorities.
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