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Mexico admits poor treatment of migrants
Dec 21 2005 10:39PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged on Wednesday that the country uses some of the same methods in dealing with illegal migrants that it has criticized the United States for employing.
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Peru leader: Shining Path rebels 'will pay'
Dec 21 2005 9:38PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Peru's president vowed Wednesday to stamp out remnants of the Shining Path guerrilla movement after suspected rebels ambushed a police patrol and killed eight officers.
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Slain U.N. peacekeeper from Canada honored
Dec 21 2005 8:28PM (CT)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Canadian police officer slain while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in Haiti was honored Wednesday by volunteers from 30 nations who saluted his casket, which was draped in Canadian and U.N. flags.
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Ex-Colombian justice minister faces charges
Dec 21 2005 7:33PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Prosecutors are filing homicide charges against a former justice minister in connection with the 1989 assassination of a leading presidential candidate, the attorney general's office said Wednesday.
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Morales headed toward victory in Bolivia
Dec 21 2005 6:15PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Nearly complete vote tabulations Wednesday pointed to an easy victory by leftist leader Evo Morales, showing the coca grower with more popular support than any Bolivian president since democracy was restored two decades ago.
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3 convicted in prosecutor's bomb slaying
Dec 21 2005 5:09PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - A court convicted three men in the murder of a prosecutor who had been investigating opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and sentenced them to up to 30 years in prison, officials said Wednesday.
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Colombia government announces peace talks
Dec 21 2005 4:17PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Colombia's government and the nation's second-largest rebel group ended nearly a week of cordial talks in Cuba on Wednesday with an agreement to set an agenda for formal peace negotiations, a move both sides called significant.
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Colombians have new hope for hostages
Dec 21 2005 3:14PM (CT)
CALI, Colombia (AP) - Six-year-old Daniela Narvaez has written a list of gifts she wants this Christmas, and before all else comes one long-standing wish: "My Papa." Her father was kidnapped by rebels nearly four years ago, and now she and other Colombians have new hope their loved ones will be freed.
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Correction: Bolivia-Morales story
Dec 21 2005 1:38PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - In a Dec. 20 story about what Evo Morales will do as Bolivia's president to control cocaine trafficking, The Associated Press reported erroneously that he would call a referendum and have coca growers decide.
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Mexico vows to block border-wall extension
Dec 21 2005 9:00AM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - The Mexican government, angered by a U.S. proposal to extend a wall along the border to keep out migrants, pledged Tuesday to block the plan and organize an international campaign against it.
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Next Bolivian leader pledges coca control
Dec 21 2005 8:57AM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Bolivia's soon-to-be president, Evo Morales, a coca farmer under pressure to crack down on cocaine, pledged Tuesday to keep controls on coca but said he will study expanding the area where it can be legally grown.
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Panamanians march to commemorate fallen
Dec 21 2005 12:28AM (CT)
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - About 2,000 people marched through Panama City on Tuesday to commemorate the hundreds of people who died when the United States invaded the Central American country 16 years ago to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
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