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Chilean Court upholds Pinochet indictment
Dec 19 2005 10:43PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Gen. Augusto Pinochet's legal woes deepened Monday when an appeals court upheld his indictment in the disappearance of three dissidents in the early years of his 1973-90 dictatorship.
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Group cites lax Brazil deforestation laws
Dec 19 2005 10:19PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Environmental activists parked a truckload of illegally cut Amazon hardwood in front of a police station in Brazil's largest city on Monday to demonstrate how easy it is to skirt the law.
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Group: Mexican gangs more likely to kill
Dec 19 2005 10:17PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Kidnappers in Mexico are far more likely to kill their victims than are their counterparts in Colombia, the country long considered to have the world's worst abduction record, an anti-crime group said Monday.
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Peru's drug kingpin sentenced to 20 years
Dec 19 2005 9:25PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - An airline founder who was labeled Peru's drug kingpin by the Bush administration was convicted of money laundering and cocaine trafficking Monday and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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South America shifting left, away from U.S.
Dec 19 2005 9:21PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - South America's leftward tilt has gained momentum with the likely victory of Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales, the coca-farming Indian who calls himself "Washington's nightmare."
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Mexican official calls fence plan 'stupid'
Dec 19 2005 9:08PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's foreign secretary Monday leveled his country's sharpest criticism yet at U.S. proposal for a fence along parts of its southern border, condemning it as "stupid" and "underhanded."
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Colombian rebels release video of hostage
Dec 19 2005 8:53PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's main rebel group has released a video of a captured former Cabinet minister it hopes to swap, along with others, for imprisoned leftist guerrillas.
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Colombia fails to find U.S. Navy helicopter
Dec 19 2005 8:48PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A Colombian deep-sea search vessel has failed to locate the wreckage of a U.S. Navy helicopter that crashed in the Caribbean during an anti-drug operation, officials said Monday.
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Leftist Morales claims victory in Bolivia
Dec 19 2005 7:24PM (CT)
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia (AP) - The leftist who claimed victory in Bolivia's presidential race on Monday repeated his promise to end a U.S.-backed program to eradicate coca plants, saying the crop that provides the raw material for cocaine is part of Bolivian culture.
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