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POLITICS-BOLIVIA: Morales Bets All or Nothing
By Franz Chávez
LA PAZ - If both Bolivian President Evo Morales and his vice president are voted out of office in a recall referendum that is to be held, they would be replaced -- according to the constitution, and until new elections are held -- by conservative businessman and Senator Óscar Ortiz from the eastern province of Santa Cruz.
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PERU: All-Out War on Remnant of ‘Shining Path’ Guerrillas
By Ángel Páez
LIMA - The armed forces have launched a major offensive against the most combative remaining column of Sendero Luminoso (the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas) which is operating in the jungle valleys of the Ene and Apurimac rivers in southeastern Peru, where most of the country’s coca leaf and cocaine is produced.
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BRAZIL: Sugarcane Alcohol Tarnished by U.S. Maize Ethanol
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - Recent efforts by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to clearly mark the difference between Brazilian ethanol and the agrofuels produced by the United States are an admission that signing an agreement with Washington to promote a global bioethanol market was a serious political mistake, say analysts.
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PERU: Highlands Families Work to Save Their Birthright - the Potato
By Milagros Salazar*
HUAMA, Cuzco, Peru - A plate of parboiled potatoes of various sizes, shapes and colours welcomes the visitor to Huama, a town in the southern Peruvian Andes, at an altitude of 4,500 metres.
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COLOMBIA: Therapeutic Abortion - A Right in Name Only?
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA - A woman in Pasto, the capital of the western Colombian province of Nariño, found out that the baby she was expecting was severely deformed. But when she went to the provincial university hospital for an abortion, the chief obstetrician gynaecologist told her that "If your son is born deformed, take him to a circus."
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ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Controversy Over Indigenous Land and Biofuels
By Mario Osava
BRASILIA - The legal status of an indigenous territory in the far north of Brazil, and biofuels, are two hot potatoes at the Third National Conference on the Environment being held in the capital city, which is focusing on climate change.
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LATIN AMERICA: Food Summit Declares Regional Emergency
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA - The presidential summit on "Food for Life", held in Nicaragua, has ended with 16 Latin American countries agreeing to produce more food and sell it at low prices through strategic alliances, amid criticisms of free markets and capitalism.
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COLOMBIA: "Mark Him on the Ballot - The One Wearing Glasses"
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA - "With Uribe, we thought: this is the guy who is going to change the country," the 41-year-old fisherwoman told IPS.
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ARGENTINA: Food Inflation Hits People Close to Poverty Line
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Poverty is once again growing in Argentina, reversing the downward trend recorded since 2003, as a result of price inflation mainly affecting basic food products, analysts say. But the government’s only response, according to its critics, has been to stop reporting poverty statistics.
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LATIN AMERICA: South-South Cooperation to Fight Child Malnutrition
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Cooperation between Latin American countries, which is cheap, efficient and horizontal, could fast-track the fight against child malnutrition, Nils Kastberg, the regional director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said at a conference held in the Chilean capital.
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MEXICO: Pemex Oozes Corruption
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - Funds belonging to the Mexican state oil monopoly, Pemex, have paid in recent years for liposuction treatment for the wife of the company’s chief executive, a presidential candidate’s campaign, contracts with firms facing legal action, and the whims of trade union leaders who are not required to account for their expenses.
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DEATH PENALTY: Another Mexican on His Way to the Scaffold in US
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government’s aggressive strategy to prevent the execution of Mexican citizens in the United States has so far failed to bear fruit, despite a landmark international court ruling.
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HONDURAS: Prosecutors on Hunger Strike against Corruption
By Thelma Mejía
TEGUCIGALPA - Prosecutors in Honduras are on hunger strike to demand the dismissal of the attorney general and his deputy, for failure to investigate cases of corruption. Tension mounted when the president of Congress warned of possible intentions to break with the "constitutional order."
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