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Reflecting a growing shift to the left across Latin America, the April 20 election of Lugo put an end to the rightwing Colorado Party's six-decade-long grip on power.
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Eighteen years after the end of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, cases of police abuse—far from being an issue of the past—appear to be on the rise in Chile.
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The dust and debris had yet to settle fully over lower Manhattan, more than 12,000 miles away, when I began to notice the smiles-and, even more distressingly, the laughter.
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In a move that undoubtedly set off alarm bells in Washington, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced that Venezuelan and Russian ships could soon hold joint naval exercises in the Caribbean.
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The U.S. government plans to expropriate and demolish the homes of hundreds of Haiti's most impoverished by expanding the U.N. military occupation force's outpost in the giant shantytown of Cité Soleil.
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Muslim Americans endure targeted and over-reaching government policies that amount to collective punishment and guilt by association, which should never be tolerated in a democracy.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain has made his earlier endorsement of the
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The Foreign Ministry rejected the "animosity and hatred" of John P. Walters and reaffirmed its accusations against the D.E.A., calling it "a body that operated in a criminal way in Venezuelan territory."
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One of President-elect Barack Obama's top priorities will be following through on his campaign promises to close the US military prison at Guantánamo, which would be a major symbolic achievement.
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The lobby of the Royalton Hotel is tres chic with spacious velvet couches and high-back chairs, providing the perfect setting for New York professionals and European visitors to enjoy appetizers and drinks, noon and night.
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As a new leadership of UNAIDS begins on January 1, 2009, it is important to review unavoidable issues that UNAIDS will face in the future.
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It is not the duty of a head of state to be a permanent candidate. The holder of this post needs to understand that he governs for the benefit of all.
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As we venture into the future with Obama at the drivers seat giving the orders ... motivating us toward the right direction of a new America, where everyone has a voice.
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Slavery was officially abolished more than a century ago, but there has never been a social inclusion policy for Brazils blacks. Therefore, prejudice and racism are still a problem in this nation that will have more blacks than whites until the end of 2008.
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Based on examples of media mania about Islam, one may have the impression that the future of American relations with the Muslim world depends on the outcome of the 2008 elections.
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U.K-U.S. relations will remain intact with the new man-in-charge at 10 Downing Street.
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When in September 2008, the United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals converged in New York, world leaders espoused to raise the bar very high in the aggressive war against Malaria.
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National security involves the perceptions that other countries have of us, the strength of the economy, and the quality of our leadership. It is time for us to rethink national security to address twenty-first century issues.
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Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay. Shocking arrests and mysterious disappearances. Extraordinary renditions. Will these initiatives really make the world a better place or contribute to irreversibly dividing it?
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The escalating violence represents an ugly offensive by Mexican drug gangs retaliating against the government's increased determination to combat drug trafficking and drug-related violence.
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Some sectors still think authoritarianism is the way toward development and justice. There is need to fight such blindness, to remind them of the meaning of corruption, violence, and lack of freedom.
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On Thursday, July 31, Brazilian authorities gave the final go ahead to the civilian nuclear power company, Electronuclear, to continue construction of the country's third nuclear power plant.
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Blackwater's success is helping fill the coffers of some of the country's most influential conservative political figures and prompting some observers to call it the "future of war."
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While the opposition forces are yet to mobilize in the streets around the referendum campaigns, they have begun an intensive publicity campaign attacking the government's record.
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Though it maintains a positive public relations spin on tourism prospects, the Mexican government realizes serious problems exist with the long-standing reliance on United States tourism.
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If allowed to stand, the decision will set a potentially disastrous precedent, opening the floodgates for development in all of Chile's national parks and other protected areas.
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