Hot Topics AA: Brazil and Venezuela must consider the construction of nuclear … 10/02/09 AA: Latin American Realpolitik: Colombia Cuts Electricity to Venezuela … 10/01/09 AA: South America: Will defense spending trigger an arms race? 10/02/09 BO: Evo: ALBA to Tackle Key Regional Issue 10/02/09 BO: News of the Weird: Bolivia home to world’s only …
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Chávez and Gaddafi urge redefining of ‘terrorism’ By Benedict Mander in Caracas Published: September 29 2009 21:43 | Last updated: September 29 2009 21:43 Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi have joined forces to urge the world to redefine “terrorism”. While emphasising the importance of attacking terrorism “in all its forms, including state …
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Hot Topics BR: Brazil favors developing nuclear weapons for ‘respectability’ 09/28/09 CL: WATER SHORTAGE PREDICTED FOR NORTHERN CHILE 09/24/09 CO: Colombia finds 2 mass graves of peasants, rebels 09/25/09 CO: Colombia to compensate victims of paramilitary massacre 09/24/09 HN: Honduras refuses to allow 4 foreign ambassadors in the country 09/27/09 HN: Political Honduras’ Ousted President …
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SNAP ANALYSIS: New world economic order takes shape at G20 By Lesley Wroughton Fri Sep 25, 2009 PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – The Group of 20 is set to become the premier coordinating body on global economic issues, reflecting a new world economic order in which emerging market countries like China are much more relevant, according to …
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Hot Topics AA: Hezbollah may be seeking narco-terror ties 09/19/09 AA: Militarizing Latin America 09/17/09 AR: Daggers drawn in Argentine media fight 09/19/09 BR: US Military Presence in Colombia a Threat to Brazil and the Amazon 09/20/09 HN: How the US deepened the crisis in Honduras 09/17/09 VE: The mad adventures of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez …
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Hot Topics AA: Latin American strategy on drugs 09/10/09 AA: Militarizing Latin America 09/15/09 AR: Poor man’s cocaine ravages Argentine slums – Feature 09/13/09 AR: Argentine president intends to abolish crime of libel 09/12/09 BO: Bolivia president has satellite ambitions-UN agency 09/14/09 BO: US fears spread of Islam to … Bolivia 09/10/09 BR: Brazil Jet …
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