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Honduras Isolated

Letter from Brazil

PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon

PERU: Minister Tried to Promote Police Investigated for Massacre

PERU: Govt Partly Backs Down in Standoff with Native Groups

PERU: Congress Probes Massacre; Prime Minister to Quit

PERU: Families of Dead Native Protesters Tell Their Stories

COLOMBIA: "We Will Never Recover Our Standard of Living"

US-COLOMBIA: Uribe Presses FTA in First Encounter with Obama

COLOMBIA: Jaime Garzón’s Murder; No Digging Allowed – Part 2

COLOMBIA: Spying in the Name of 'Democratic Security'

COLOMBIA: UN Confirms ‘Systematic’ Killings of Civilians by Soldiers

Heavy Metal Colombia - El Blog de Constanza Vieira

Petroleum Sullies the Peruvian Amazon

Scientists Study the Riches of the Mexican Pacific

Better Labor Practices in Sugarcane Fields

Baby Terecay Turtles Head to Orinoco River

Crop Varieties to Confront Hurricane Threat

RELIGION-BRAZIL: Intolerance Denounced at UN
By Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO - "Ialorixá" Gilda died of a massive heart attack in 1999 after members of a pentecostal church swarmed into her temple and hit her over the head with a Bible. Her death drew attention to the growing religious intolerance in Brazil, which was denounced this week at the United Nations.
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PERU: Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
By Milagros Salazar*
BAGUA, Peru - "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas.
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CUBA-US: Frosty Relations No Bar to Communication
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Cuba and the United States are poised to resume talks on migration issues any time now, although the five Cuban agents imprisoned in the U.S. remain "a formidable obstacle" to normalising bilateral relations, according to Cuban parliament president Ricardo Alarcón.
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HEALTH: ‘Global Response Needed for Global (Flu) Challenge’
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - Health ministers and representatives of 43 countries and the World Health Organisation (WHO) began to meet Thursday in the Mexican resort city of Cancun to discuss a common strategy to curb the spread of the H1N1 flu virus.
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US-ECUADOR: Chevron Fails in Effort to Lift Trade Benefits
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - In the latest in a string of setbacks that could cost the U.S. oil giant Chevron billions of dollars in damages, President Barack Obama decided this week to extend trade preferences for Ecuadorean exports for another six months under the 1991 Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA).
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HONDURAS: Activists Decry Suspension of Fundamental Rights
By Thelma Mejía
TEGUCIGALPA - Local and international human rights organisations and left-wing legislators condemned the suspension of constitutional rights in Honduras during the night-time curfew, which tightened the state of siege in effect since President Manuel Zelaya was ousted Sunday.
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COLOMBIA: "We Will Never Recover Our Standard of Living"
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - "It never crossed my mind that I would have to leave my country and leave behind our farms, work, people and lifestyle. It was a life or death decision we had to take in a matter of hours," said Amalia*, a 42-year-old married Colombian woman with two children, who for the past seven years has lived on the outskirts of the Venezuelan capital.
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ENVIRONMENT: Scientists Study the Riches of the Mexican Pacific
By Emilio Godoy*
MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s Pacific coast, one of the world's richest seaboards in terms of biodiversity, has been the focus of very few scientific studies. A new observatory aims to fill that void.
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ENVIRONMENT-URUGUAY: Invasion of the Sand Dunes
By Inés Acosta
CIUDAD DE LA COSTA, Uruguay - "A road used to run through here, the sidewalk was over there, and this was the neighbour’s yard. That was an esplanade where people parked their cars, and that area over there was a plaza," says Jackeline, pointing to enormous sand dunes that have swallowed up everything, even entire trees.
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PARAGUAY: President and Congress Face Off Over Agrochemicals
By Natalia Ruiz Díaz
ASUNCIÓN - "Silvino was riding his bike on a dirt road near our home when he was poisoned by toxic agrochemicals, sprayed on a nearby field of soybeans. He died soon afterwards. He was 11," said his mother, Petrona Villasboa, a rural activist in southern Paraguay.
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US-HONDURAS: Dictatorships and Double Standards Revisited
Analysis by Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - When the Honduran military deposed President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday, in an incident that stirred memories of Cold War military coups in Latin America, it also seems to have caused at least some foreign policy commentators here to revert to positions reminiscent of the Cold War.
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HONDURAS: Regime Faces International Isolation
By Thelma Mejía*
TEGUCIGALPA - In the midst of the international isolation faced by the new government named by the Honduran Congress to replace President Manuel Zelaya who was ousted Sunday, the courts issued an arrest warrant for the leader Tuesday.
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ARGENTINA: Gearing Up for the Presidential Race
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - The government's poor showing in Argentina's mid-term congressional elections Sunday has cleared the way for would-be successors to President Cristina Fernández in the 2011 presidential elections. Experts say that, at present, no potential rival has a clear lead.
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INDIA: Religiosos contra despenalización de la homosexualidad

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