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Family sues mortuary over switched bodies
Mercedes Adilia Rodriguez's wishes were precise and meaningful: Her casket would be closed during her funeral, and she refused to be buried in the chilly earth of a Southern California cemetery. Instead, following tradition, she would be interred above...Tags: Arthritis, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Human Interest, Osteoporosis
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Tomas Borge dies at 81; last living founder of Sandinista movement
MEXICO CITY — Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement and one of its most hard-line enforcers as it battled U.S.-backed forces for decades, has died. He was 81.
In Nicaragua, the government of President Daniel Ortega...Tags: Respiratory Disease, Politics, Human Rights, Justice and Rights, Christianity
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Iranian president expected to visit Latin America
World NowIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans a tour of South and Central America beginning Sunday. He is expected to visit Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador.... -
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Last day to tell the federal government to tighten rules on tiger ownership
Opinion L.A.Terry Thompson, the Ohio man who set his wild animals loose before committing suicide, had 18 tigers in his menagerie. All were among the 49 animals killed by law enforcement officers grappling Tuesday night and Wednesday morning with the public...... -
Greeks in deal on new government in bid to save bailout, euro
World NowGreece’s ruling Socialists and opposition conservatives agreed to form a unity government Sunday after a week of political turmoil that threatened to push the country into bankruptcy and out of Europe’s single currency. Embattled Greek Prime... -
Elections in Nicaragua, Guatemala underscore threats to democracy
World NowElections in Guatemala and Nicaragua: Voters on Sunday were choosing presidents in Guatemala and Nicaragua, two Central American countries where democracy has been dramatically weakened by violence and political abuse.... -
Cyberattacks strike networks in Brazil, revealing vulnerability across Latin America
La PlazaLatin America's vulnerability to cyberattacks was laid bare in recent weeks as government networks in several countries were hacked or temporarily shut down, and hackers threatened to go after more. On June 21, the hackers group LulzSec claimed on Twitter... -
Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Octavio Paz, Walt Whitman, Gabriela Mistral, Chile, Music
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Traveling abroad? For information, check with the country's tourist office
For tourist information about foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. Several no longer list phone numbers, so information is through their website only. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-...Tags: Belgium, Montenegro, Antigua and Barbuda, Tanzania, Israel
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Book review: 'Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War'
Los Angeles TimesRevolution The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War Deb Olin Unferth Henry Holt: 212 pp., $24 In the 1980s, Central America was astir with civil unrest, in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua. While nation-states and their proxies intervened...Tags: El Salvador, Book, Human Interest, Christianity, Henry Holt
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