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/ Central America
HONDURAS
Lobo Might Put End To
Honduran crisis
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduran President Porfirio
Lobo’s inauguration was a pretty lonely
affair, with most Latin American presidents
shunning the ceremony because of the
country’s 2009 coup. But judging from what
I’m told by key Latin American and US
officials, Lobo’s isolation won’t last long.
HONDURAS
Colombian President
Visits Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA - Colombian President Alvaro
Uribe arrived in Tegucigalpa on Saturday for
an official visit.
GUATEMALA
Former Guatemalan
President Portillo Is Charged in US
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo
was charged in the United States with using
foreign banks to launder millions of dollars
plundered from charity and government
coffers.
EL SALVADOR
First Extradition From El Salvador to the United States
Jose Marvin Martinez, a Salvadoran national, was surrendered to U.S. authorities today in the first extradition from El Salvador to the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. |
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/ Latin America
COLOMBIA
Colombian Cops Seize
Cocaine-Stuffed Cookies
BOGOTA - The biscuits looked
perfect but Colombian sniffer
dogs smelled something that was
just not right in the
Barcelona-bound shipment:
cocaine.
VENEZUELA
Venezuela Warns of Use
of Children in Protests
CARACAS - Venezuela's Attorney General Luisa
Ortega warned on Friday of the use of minors
in demonstrations causing a breach of peace,
referring to recent demonstrations involving
students.
BRAZIL
Social Forum Ends in
Brazil
PORTO ALEGRE - The World Social Forum (WSF)
concludes on Friday in Porto Alegre, capital
of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul,
five days of debates under the slogan "10
years later: challenges and proposals for
another possible world."
BOLIVIA
Bolivia Rejects
Honduran New Government
LA PAZ - Bolivian Foreign Minister David
Choquehuanca stated on Saturday that Evo
Morales''s government would not recognize
the new Honduran Executive of President
elect Porfirio Lobo, because the Bolivian
government rejects dictatorships.
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/ Special Reports
WORLD
SOCIAL FORUM: Another Kind of
Economics Is Possible
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (IPS)
- Democratising economics as
well as politics is essential
for ending irrationality and
discrimination as part of the
struggle for social and
environmental justice, said
participants at one of the
panels of the seminar assessing
the World Social Forum's (WSF)
first 10 years.
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Your Photos Could Be Product Placements
One day soon, our society will be ruled by an all-intrusive advertising technique in which individuals are paid to walk around 24/7 holding a product next to their wide-smiling faces |
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The Apple iPad
Steve Jobs, founder of
Apple this week
introduced the iPad, a
handheld tablet that is
a larger version of the
iPhone without the
telephony feature.
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