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Latin America stories: 93 news summaries

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 Betancourt,
 3 US Hostages 
 Freed From
 FARC Rebels 

Colombia claims to have rescued 15

Jul 2, 08 2:59 PM CDT
(AP) - Colombia's military has freed 15 hostages—including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three US contractors—from Maoist rebel group FARC, the AP reports. Colombia's defense minister announced the rescue today, saying that army commandos captured rebels manning a security ring around the hostages and got them to persuade their... More »

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Latin America • Colombia • FARC • Ingrid Betancourt

OPINION

Yellow, Popular, and Not Long
for Our Shelves

Ripening prices, disease will make bananas exotic again

Jun 18, 08 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - With prices pushing the $1-per-pound mark, the banana's days as an American staple fruit are numbered, Dan Koeppel writes in the New York Times. “That bananas have long been the cheapest fruit at the grocery store is astonishing,” he notes of the exotic, quick-to-rot fruit, which is cheaper... More »

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Latin America • farming • banana • workers' rights • banana republics

Low-Income Buyers Make Brazil 5th-Biggest PC Market

More money and more credit fuel surge, helping Dell and HP

May 21, 08 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brazilian consumers are putting better credit offers and growing wealth into computers, and HP and Dell are the beneficiaries. The country is now the 5th-biggest PC market in the world, and low-income buyers are fueling the boom there. Computer shipments rose 38% last year to 10.7 million, Bloomberg reports,... More »

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Latin America • Dell • Brazil • computer • Hewlett-Packard

Shakira Shakes Cash Loose
for Charity

Pair of star-studded shows take on Latin American poverty

May 18, 08 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shakira, Ricky Martin, and dozens of other Spanish-speaking pop stars performed at simultaneous fundraising concerts in Mexico City and Buenos Aires yesterday, reports the LA Times. “It is doable, we can really eradicate poverty,” said the Colombian singer, whose shows benefited Alas, a charity that helps Latin America's... More »

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philanthropy • music • Latin America • Mexico City • charity • fundraiser • concert • Buenos Aires • Shakira • Ricky Martin

 Chavez Ties Merkel to Hitler 

Venezuelan fires back after German chancellor advises neighbors to keep distance

May 12, 08 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez fired back at Angela Merkel after the German leader suggested Latin American countries should be wary of ties to Venezuela. "She is from the German right," he said yesterday, "the same that supported Hitler, that supported fascism, that's the Chancellor of Germany." More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • Angela Merkel • Germany • Adolf Hitler • Hugo Chávez

Pelosi, Dems Hijack Colombia Free-Trade Deal

They change House rules to avoid a vote, angering Bush

Apr 9, 08 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Congressional Democrats thumbed their noses today at Bush's renewed efforts to pass a free-trade pact with Colombia. Bush sent the bill over Monday, mandating Congress to vote yea or nay within 90 days. Or so he thought. Nancy Pelosi is changing the House rules and won't allow a vote until... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Latin America • White House • Colombia • recession • US economy • domestic policy • congressional Democrats • free trade • free trade agreements • George W. Bush • Colombia Free Trade Pact

Bush to Give Congress Colombia Bill

But Dems will likely
kill trade pact over human rights

Apr 7, 08 7:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush said today he is handing Congress a much-disputed Colombia free trade pact, the Washington Post reports. But with both Democratic presidential candidates and many lawmakers opposing it, the bill has little chance of passing. Democrats have long blasted Colombia for failing to protect labor advocates and curb violence.... More »

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Latin America • Democrats • Colombia • free trade • Alvaro Uribe • George W. Bush • Colombia Free Trade Pact

 Mexico's Emo Teens Under Fire 

They're being attacked in the streets by other youth subcultures

Mar 28, 08 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - An ugly clash of cultures is surfacing in Mexico with so-called emo teenagers being viciously beaten in big cities across the country, Wired reports. In one well-publicized attack north of Mexico City, an 800-strong mob—made up of punk fans and ordinary working-class teens—beat up a handful of long-haired,... More »

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Latin America • Mexico City • Mexico • youth • Tijuana • riots • teenager • emo

Teens' Public Orgies Rattle Chilean Mores

Sexcapades reflect consumer-driven, apolitical youth culture

Mar 20, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Can 100 teenagers performing oral sex on one another in a public park not be a political statement? That's one of the questions the sight of horny, apolitical, bisexual Chilean teenagers are prompting among their appalled, mostly Catholic compatriots, Newsweek reports from a country still haunted by General Pinochet's repressive... More »

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Latin America • Chile • homosexuality • sexuality • Catholicism • sexual behavior • Augusto Pinochet • consumerism • bisexual • heterosexual • teenager • Pokemones • ponceo

Rice Snubs Argentina in
Trip South

Relations grow icier
as Kirchner drifts toward Chavez

Mar 13, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice has embarked on a visit to Brazil and Chile, but the secretary of State won’t be stopping in neighboring Argentina, a sign of ever-frostier relations. “The United States is clearly snubbing Argentina,” one expert tells the New York Times. New Argentine president Cristina Fernández... More »

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oil • Latin America • Venezuela • Condoleezza Rice • Brazil • Chile • Argentina • South America • Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner • Hugo Chávez

Iraq Hired Guns Fight en Español

Contractors offer hard-to-refuse deal

Jan 28, 08 2:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Not every security contractor in Iraq is a hotshot American making $500 a day. Many of the private security personnel roaming Iraq are poor Latin Americans, for whom the promise of $1,000 a month and full benefits is nearly irresistible, reports the LA Times. “I’d rather... More »

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Iraq • Latin America • Peru • security guards • Triple Canopy • security contractors • private security guards • Iraq war

OPINION

How They See Obama Overseas

New Republic scribe dissects what the world thinks of Democratic candidate

Jan 16, 08 3:19 PM CST
(Newser) - It’s not just Americans who are weighing in on Barack Obama’s candidacy: The New Republic’s Antonio Vargas Llosa reads the tea leaves in overseas attitudes towards the potential first black president:
  • The European left is relatively mum, showing “a quiet shame” that mainstream America—often
... More »

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Barack Obama • Latin America • Europe

'Mistrust' Fueling
Latin American Arms Race

Venezuela, Brazil lead weapons spending spree

Jan 16, 08 12:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Recent bursts of defense spending from Brazil and Venezuela have experts wondering if Latin America—decades removed from a war between nations—has entered an arms race, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Chile has also invested in weapons recently, and Colombia is rife with war-on-drugs firepower. “There is a... More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • Columbia University • Brazil • Chile • arms race

Brazil Prez: Fidel 'Healthy, Lucid'

Lula signs economic pacts to help Cuba through transition

Jan 16, 08 9:07 AM CST
(Newser) - After meeting with Fidel Castro, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday the 81-year-old leader was "incredibly lucid," healthy, and "ready to assume his political role in Cuba and the role he has in history." Lula met earlier with Raul Castro, who has been... More »

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Latin America • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Raul Castro

Colombian Hostage Reunited
With Son

Rojas meets child rebels took from her

Jan 14, 08 4:50 AM CST
(Newser) - A Colombian woman held captive for nearly six years by rebels was reunited yesterday with the son she had as a hostage. Clara Rojas' baby, Emmanuel, fathered by one of the rebels, was taken from her when he was just eight months old, suffering from a broken arm and a... More »

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Latin America • Colombia • FARC • Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia • Ingrid Betancourt • jungle • Clara Rojas • Emmanuel Rojas • hostage

Director Rips Bush in Colombia Hostage Drama

Rescue undermined
by US, says Stone

Jan 7, 08 3:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Maverick Hollywood director Oliver Stone had a front-row seat on the scene of the failed hostage rescue mission in Colombia last month—and has returned blaming that nation's government and President Bush. "Shame on Bush,” Stone told the Guardian. Colombian rebels reneged on a deal to free two... More »

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Latin America • United States • Colombia • Oliver Stone • FARC • Hugo Chávez • Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia • George W. Bush • hostage

New Approach Targets Tough Parasitic Illness

Insect-borne disease infects 11M annually

Dec 27, 07 1:15 PM CST
(Newser) - A new way to test for Chagas disease offers hope for combating the insect-borne ailment, which can otherwise go unnoticed for years, Reuters reports. The new method involves screening children in small areas where exterminators find the most disease-carrying bugs instead of having to test bigger populations. The disease infects... More »

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Latin America • parasites • study • public health • medical research • insects • disease control

Argentine Prez Campaign Cash Tied to Chavez

$800,000 in suitcase seized en route to Kirchner, US says

Dec 14, 07 4:29 AM CST
(Newser) - US prosecutors are accusing the Hugo Chavez government of sneaking donations to the election campaign of new Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, writes the Guardian. A suitcase filled with $800,000, seized at Buenos Aires airport , was on its way from Caracas to Kirchner, one of the men involved in the... More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • Argentina • Hugo Chávez • Cristina Kirchner

Chavez Foes Stage Mass Rally

Thousands take to the streets ahead of Sunday's vote

Nov 29, 07 4:24 PM CST
(Newser) - Tens of thousands took to the streets in Caracas today to protest Hugo Chavez's proposal to bolster his power and institute socialist changes. Venezuelans will vote Sunday on 69 constitutional reforms, including the eradication of presidential term limits. "We can't be a communist Venezuela," one opposition leader told... More »

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Latin America • constitutional amendment • Venezuela • Caracas • Hugo Chávez • referendum

Cuban Vote
Signals Future of Castro

He could resign by leaving name off
ballot next year

Nov 20, 07 7:44 PM CST
(Newser) - National parliamentary elections—which could mark a formal end to Fidel Castro's rule—will be held on Jan. 20, the AP reports. The ailing Castro must be re-elected to Cuba's National Assembly to regain his position as president. If he withholds his name from the ballot, "he is effectively... More »

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Latin America • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Raul Castro • election • interim leader

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