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Obama urges new tack for Central America's drug war
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — President Obama capped a three-day visit to Latin America on Saturday by urging the region's leaders to fight the drug war not with more guns or military aid but with greater investment in infrastructure, education and energy....
Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Mauricio Funes, Government, Barack Obama, Human Rights
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Obama, Central American presidents face a difficult agenda
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Central American presidents will likely have a long list of gripes for their U.S. counterpart as they head into meetings with Barack Obama on Friday night. President Obama arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, on Friday...
Tags: Immigration, here! (tv network), Honduras, Mauricio Funes, Human Rights
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Eric Toth, on FBI's most wanted list, is arrested in Nicaragua
A former elementary school teacher who had been on the run for nearly five years was arrested in Nicaragua over the weekend on suspicion of producing pornography of young boys, the FBI said Tuesday. Eric Justin Toth, now 31, was once a third-grade...
Tags: Police Arrests, Teachers, The Washington Post, Police Investigations, Eric Justin Toth
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President Hugo Chavez dies at 58; hero to Venezuela's poor
CARACAS, Venezuela —Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the charismatic socialist whose Bolivarian Revolution reduced poverty and galvanized anti-American sentiment across Latin America but left his nation deeply polarized and ever more dependent on...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, U.S. Embassy, Bolivia, Cuba, Interior Policy
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Former members of Mexico student movement join Televisa talk show
World NowMEXICO CITY -- They rallied and railed against the dominant media duopoly in Mexico during a crucial election campaign, but now former members of the student movement known as #YoSoy132 are set to appear on a new talk show produced by the Televisa... -
Accused Mexican drug ring posing as media on trial in Nicaragua
World NowThe 18 Mexicans said they were journalists from their country’s main television broadcaster, Televisa. They wore the company T-shirt, and the six vans they drove into Nicaragua bore the orange Televisa logo.... -
U.S. to remove Iranian group Mujahedin Khalq from terrorist list
World NowWASHINGTON -- The small but influential Iranian exile group Mujahedin Khalq will be removed from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organizations, a U.S. official said Friday, following a high-priced lobbying campaign claiming the controversial group... -
Adolfo Calero dies at 80; tied to Iran-Contra scandal
MEXICO CITY — Adolfo Calero, a former Coca-Cola executive who led the largest anti-Sandinista Contra rebel force in 1980s Nicaragua and served as one of its most articulate lobbyists in Washington, has died. He was 80.
Calero died Saturday night in...Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Newspapers, Government, Central America, Lebanon
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief, Political Corruption, Government, 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.... -
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......
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