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Honduran Villages Caught in Drug War?s Cross-Fire
Despite an influx of American assistance, residents of an area of Honduras that has become a way station for cocaine on its way north say they feel threatened.
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Law of the Sea Treaty Is Found on Capitol Hill, Again
The United Nations treaty that governs the world?s oceans is undergoing one of its periodic resurrections in Congress.
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Strike Shuts Down Canadian Pacific Railway
Resource companies and manufacturers in Canada faced disruptions after a strike organized by the Teamsters targeted the Canadian Pacific Railway early Wednesday morning.
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Arrest in 2006 Death of U.S. Reporter During Mexico Protests
A man was detained in the killing of Bradley Roland Will, a New York activist and journalist who was covering street protests in Oaxaca.
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Strike Snarls Traffic in Săo Paulo, Brazil
A strike by subway and commuter train workers in Săo Paulo led to congestion that, at its peak, backed up 155 miles of roads and highways.
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Op-Ed Contributors: Our Not-So-Friendly Northern Neighbor
Quebec is trampling basic democratic rights in order to end student protests against tuition increases.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Argentina: Bomb Was Set to Strike Former President of Colombia
A bomb discovered in a Buenos Aires theater on Tuesday was programmed to explode when the former president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, was scheduled to speak there on Wednesday, authorities said.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Brazil: Pilot Ejects Passenger Over Sexist Remarks
A Brazilian airline said Tuesday that one of its female pilots ejected a passenger from a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes.
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Secret Service Chief Testifies About Scandal
Mark J. Sullivan told a Senate committee that no security breach had arisen from the interaction of a dozen agents with prostitutes last month in Colombia because agents had not yet been briefed about security arrangements for President Obama?s visit.
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Secret Service Director to Testify That Security Was Not Breached in Scandal
Testimony Wednesday for a Senate committee in Washington will be the director?s first public comments on the prostitution scandal in Colombia last month.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Colombia: Rebels Attack Troops From Venezuela
Fighters from Colombia?s main leftist rebel movement attacked an army patrol from Venezuelan territory on Monday, killing at least 12 soldiers and wounding 4 others, Colombian officials said.
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Colombia Suspects Ex-Hostage of Helping FARC Plan His Capture
Sigifredo López, who was kidnapped along with 11 other legislators in 2002, has been detained under suspicion of helping the FARC plan their abduction.
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Chicago NATO Summit Protesters Clash With Police
Protesters and police clashed in the most fractious confrontation yet following a series of weekend protests against the NATO summit meeting being held here.
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New Hints at Looser Travel Rules Stir Hope in Cuba
For five decades, tight restrictions have governed who can leave the island, who can return and how long they can be gone.
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Architecture Review: Fighting Crime With Architecture in Medellín, Colombia
Medellín, Colombia, once famed for murder and cocaine, is now drawing notice for its ambitious urban projects, many aimed at easing life in the city?s slums.
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From Honduras, Conflicting Tales of a Shootout
Some Honduran officials and residents have said that the victims of a fatal gun battle last week were innocent people, challenging the account of American drug enforcement agents.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Brazil: An Apology for Torture
The Rio de Janeiro State government said Friday that it would apologize to President Dilma Rousseff for the human rights abuses she suffered during the dictatorship that ruled Brazil.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: 8 Held in Investigation of Dismembered Bodies
The army said it had detained eight suspected members of the Gulf cartel and seized drugs and weapons during investigations into last week?s discovery of dismembered bodies on a Mexican highway.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Cuba: Scholars Denied U.S. Visas
The State Department rejected the visa applications of 11 of the more than 70 Cuban scholars who had applied to attend the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Quebec Government Passes Law to Restrain Protests
Quebec?s government passed an emergency law Friday restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities, seeking to end three months of protests against tuition increases.
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Mexico Detains Third General Tied to Drug Cartel
The arrests suggest the depths that drug cartels have gone to in trying to infiltrate one of the primary forces President Felipe Calderón has counted on to combat them.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Canada: Quebec Seeks to End Protests
Quebec?s legislators on Thursday night began to debate an emergency bill that the provincial government hopes will end a 14-week student strike over tuition increases.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Canada: A Diamond Takes Forever
A man accused of stealing a $20,000 diamond and swallowing it is being held in custody in Windsor, Ontario, until it passes through his system, the police say.
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Anger Rises After U.S.-Honduras Drug Sweep
Residents of the isolated Mosquito Coast of Honduras have burned down government buildings and are demanding that American drug agents leave the area immediately.
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World Briefing | The Americas: Republicans Block Iran Sanctions Vote
Senate Republicans blocked legislation for new economic sanctions on Iran?s oil sector on Thursday, saying they needed more time to study the bill.
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Mexicans Unflinching in Face of Drug War?s Carnage
Many Mexicans are increasingly disturbed by their disaffection as drug violence has taken a turn for the worse.
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Havana Journal: In Cuba, Cross-Cultural Art Project Involves Food
An international collaboration between chefs, part of the Havana Biennial, combines a boundary-crossing art project with the simple delight of complicated food.
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Gramalote Journal: Residents Trickle Back to Ruins of Gramalote, Colombia
Dispersed to nearby towns and cities, Gramalote, Colombia, residents are slowly returning to the devastated town, to live among the ruins or at least in sight of them.
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Ciudad Juárez Journal: Slivers of Hope Amid the Melancholy in Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez is still a violent city, but homicide rates have decreased significantly from their peak in 2010, and young people in particular are stepping out.
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Cuba?s AIDS Sanitariums: Fortresses Against a Viral Foe
As the ranks of those infected with H.I.V. grew, the Cuban government imposed quarantines and set up a network of sanitariums. Now there are only three, with less restrictive living conditions.
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At Wal-Mart in Mexico, a Bribe Inquiry Silenced
Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out wrongdoing, an examination by The New York Times found.
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Venezuela Faces Shortages in Grocery Staples
Staples like milk, meat and toilet paper can be hard to find in Venezuela, and many blame the government?s price-control policies.
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Colombian Escort Speaks About Secret Service Scandal
A dispute over what a Secret Service agent owed a Colombian woman working as a high-priced escort led to a scandal that has now prompted the exit of three employees from the agency.
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Women Take the Reins of Power as Brazil?s Energy Industry Expands
Brazil?s president, Dilma Rousseff, has made it her priority to secure leadership positions for women.
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U.S. Alert as China?s Cash Buys Inroads in Caribbean
China?s economic might has rolled up to America?s doorstep, with loans from state banks, investments by companies and outright gifts from the government.
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High in Chilean Desert, a Huge Astronomy Project
High in the Chilean desert, scientists have installed one of the world?s largest ground-based astronomical projects to look for clues to the origins of the universe.
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Political Memo: Mexico?s Presidential Race Could Be Pivotal
Still recovering from decades of single-party rule and facing many challenges, Mexico has scant faith that any of the candidates will confront its problems.
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Fatal Car Crash in Brazil Spotlights Class Division
The death of a cyclist in a car accident involving Thor Batista, the 20-year-old son of Brazil?s richest man, has awakened a debate over wealth, influence and traffic deaths.
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Paraguay?s Chaco Forest Being Cleared by Ranchers
Huge sections of the Chaco forest are being razed by local Mennonite farmers and Brazilian cattle ranchers amid a surge in the global demand for beef.
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In Mexico, a Kidnapping Ignored as Gang Crimes Go Unpunished
Six years into a mostly military assault on drug cartels, impunity has worsened, and justice is harder to find.
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In Latin America, Prisons Condemned to Crisis
A Honduran fire and a Mexican massacre have drawn new attention to dangerous conditions in Latin American prisons, which have outlasted scrutiny before.
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Memo From Paraguay: In Paraguay, Indigenous Language With Unique Staying Power
Unusual features of Paraguay?s history and politics mean that Guaraní is widely spoken, despite a relatively small indigenous population.
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The Saturday Profile: Bernardo Paz?s Inhotim Is Vast Garden of Art
Bernardo Paz, a mining magnate, employs 1,000 people at Inhotim, his 5,000-acre complex of contemporary art and exotic gardens.
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Brazil Faces Obstacles in Preparations for Rio Olympics
Ambitious development plans for the 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2014 soccer World Cup, involve large-scale evictions from numerous slums, whose residents are refusing to leave.
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Trading His Uniform for a Suit
Despite his election to Congress in Brazil, Romário de Souza Faria insists that he is still the same man he was running up and down the soccer field for so many years.
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A Dam Clouds The Future of Peru?s Indigenous People
On the eastern slopes of the Andes in Peru, home mainly to indigenous peoples like the Ashaninka, the government wants to dam the Ene River and sell most of the hydroelectric power to Brazil.
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Trickling Back to Live Among, and Off of, a Hill Town?s Ruins
Dispersed to nearby towns and cities, residents of Gramalote, Colombia, are slowly returning to the devastated town, to live among the ruins or at least in sight of them.
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In Ciudad Juárez, a New Emotion
Signs that Ciudad Juárez is on the road to recovery after years of an onslaught by drug-trafficking cartels include the young people who have joined art collectives in lieu of gangs and the recently reopened nightclubs that are drawing crowds out after dark.
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Amid Brazil?s Rush to Develop, Workers Resist
As the country moves to tap one of the world?s last great reserves of hydroelectric power, the Amazon basin, strikes and worker uprisings at the biggest projects are producing delays and cost overruns.
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The Lede Blog: Nude Paintings of Leaders Cause Stir in South Africa and Canada
In South Africa, protesters are caught on video defacing a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma, while in Canada, the office of Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes light of his nude likeness.
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The Lede Blog: Argentina Tweaks Britain With Olympic Ad Shot Secretly in Falklands
Britain's defense minister demanded an apology from the Argentine government on Friday for a "provocative" television commercial tied to the London Olympics that restates Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands.
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The Lede Blog: Discovery Shuttle Makes Final Flight
Before being permanently brought down to Earth, the space shuttle Discovery hitched a final ride to its new home at the Smithsonian on the back of a 747.
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Way of the World: Like an Anorexic, U.S. Sees Itself Fat With Taxes
U.S. conservatives have won the political debate on taxes, convincing Americans that they pay too much when the reality is government revenue as a percentage of output is at a historical low.
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