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Archive for the ‘Latin America’ Category
Chavez surgery rocks Venezuela ahead of election (Reuters)
Reuters – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist leader’s passionate supporters.
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Argentine train slams into station, killing 49 (AP)
AP – A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires’ busy Once station Wednesday, killing 49 people and injuring hundreds of morning commuters as passenger cars crumpled behind the engine. It was Argentina’s worst train accident in decades.
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Argentine commuter train crashes, killing 49 people (Reuters)
Reuters – A packed commuter train plowed into the buffers at a Buenos Aires station during Wednesday’s morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina’s worst rail accident in more than 30 years, officials said.
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Argentine train slams into station, 100s injured (AP)
AP – A packed train slammed into the end of the line in Buenos Aires’ busy Once station Wednesday, injuring at least 340 morning commuters, Argentina’s transportation secretary said.
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Venezuela’s Chavez says his cancer is likely back (AP)
AP – President Hugo Chavez has raised serious doubts about whether he’ll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant.
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Inmates start fire inside Mexico prison (AP)
AP – Inmates set fire to mattresses and trash Tuesday after officials announced that three prisoners would be moved from the prison where 44 gangs members were massacred this week to a maximum security jail in western Mexico.
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Venezuela’s Chavez needs another operation (Reuters)
Reuters – Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez will undergo another operation in Cuba in the coming days after doctors found a possibly malignant lesion in his pelvis where surgeons removed a large cancerous tumor last year, he said on Tuesday.
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US team says Honduras prison fire was an accident (AP)
AP – U.S. investigators concluded Tuesday that the deadliest prison fire in a century was accidental, and may have been caused by a lit match, cigarette or some other open flame.
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Jamaica gang feuds driving rise in murder rate (AP)
AP – Jamaica is developing a new policy to battle crime as gang violence drives the homicide rate higher, the country’s top security official said Tuesday.
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Cuban videos warn communists off corruption (Reuters)
Reuters – Cuban President Raul Castro’s full-court press on corruption has gone the local equivalent of viral, as videos with bribery confessions by foreign and Cuban businessmen make the rounds of the communist-run island’s state companies.
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