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Posthumous Pinochet note justifies coup
Dec 24 2006 11:12PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - In a letter to Chileans written to be published after his death, Gen. Augusto Pinochet said he wished he hadn't had to stage the bloody 1973 coup that put him in power, and called the abuses under his long regime inevitable.
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Rebels kill 15 soldiers in Colombia
Dec 24 2006 9:53PM (CT)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Government troops have retaken control of an area in southern Colombia where leftist rebels ambushed and killed 15 soldiers, the president said Sunday.
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80 flee Guatemala drug rehab center
Dec 24 2006 8:39PM (CT)
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Eighty residents of a drug and alcohol treatment center escaped and 13 others were injured in a rebellion that started when patients were told they could not leave to celebrate Christmas, authorities said Sunday.
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Peru bus crash kills at least 9
Dec 24 2006 8:33PM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - A bus plunged into a river in Peru's central mountains, killing at least nine people and leaving four missing, police said Sunday.
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