American Politics, news, and current events from United States, canada and other countries in north and south americas.
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
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Bolivian government deployed soldiers along borders with Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to fight the smuggling of liquefied petroleum gas. Bolivia was forced to take the action as the country's most populous cities; La Paz and El Alto in the west and Santa Cruz in the east; are suffering energy shortages due to the smugglings. |
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
In Colombia's main port Buenaventura, leftist rebels on 22 June threw bombs and left 2 people dead and several others injured. The attacks were directed at a police station and commercial areas frequented by civilians.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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A jail riot in central Chile was put under control last week short after the prisoners could escape from the prison. |
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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Most people in Chile believe that their country should go ahead with the extradition of a former Peruvian president. This finding was revealed according to a poll by La Tercera. |
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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Newly declassified documents show that the CIA spied on and monitored the phone calls and movements of journalists and peace activists during the Vietnam War era. |
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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Mexican government re-arrested a former governor right after his release from the prison. He served a six-year sentence for money-laundering. According to Mexico's Attorney General's Office, the former governor Mario Villanueva was re-arrested on drug-trafficking charges. He served as a state governor of Quintana Roo before imprisoned in 2001. |
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
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The Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean on the west. Being surrounded by these high profile drug trafficking countries, Ecuador always placed great emphasis on multilateral approaches to international problems. |
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
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In recent weeks, the Brazilian government decided to work on the difficult task of building giant hydroelectric dams in the Amazon River. The project presents President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a major challenge between his ambitious economic development plan based on large-scale infrastructure, and the enormous social and environmental costs of the dams. |
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
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Drug trafficking is bringing Mexican people an indescribable number of problems. Socially, politically and economically - the evil hand of drug trafficking is hampering at large. President Felipe Calderon may be the constitutionally elected leader of the nation, but in reality, drug cartels and warlords exercise vast authority over much of the area. |
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
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Thousands of Mexican teachers on 18 July occupied the center of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca and demanded higher pay and the release of seven people who led a protest last year asking the local governor to step down. |
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