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Venezuelan troops seized a cement plant owned by Mexico's Cemex SAB after a deal to nationalize the firm failed.
Troops occupied the Maracaibo Cemex plant in the western state of Zulia Monday night but plan to take control of all four Cemex plants in Venezuela Tuesday.
"At midnight, we are going to take operational control of Cemex's... |
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 After 50 years of tenure, Fidel Castro has
announced his resignation as Cuba’s
president. The newspaper Granma, the official publication of the Cuban
Communist Party, quotes Fidel Castro as saying he is not interested in another
term as president. Castro’s health problems are well known, especially after
the intestinal surgery he...
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 Hundreds of thousands of
Colombians marched Monday in Colombia
and in many other countries asking the Marxist FARC rebels to stop kidnapping
people and release those it holds. The demonstrators were wearing white
T-shirts saying "No more FARC" and "No more kidnapping."
It is the largest protest ever against the...
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 The suspense of Fidel Castro's political future is set to be solved on
February 24, when the new Cuban National Assembly holds its first
meeting after Sunday's elections.
The 31 members of the communist country's Council of State, whose
president is also Cuba's head of state and government, are set to be
chosen from among...
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 Cubans were called to the polls on Sunday to elect members of their
National Assembly, Cuba's unicameral congress, from among whom the
communist island's leadership was to be chosen.
Cuba's new leaders will come out of a process marked by key
uncertainties: Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader for almost half a century,
is a candidate, but...
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 Ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro, 81, said in an article published
Wednesday that he devotes his time to writing because he currently
lacks the "physical ability" necessary to talk to Cubans directly.
"I do what I can: I write," Castro said, in an article under his name dated Monday.
"This constitutes...
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 Little Emmanuel has finally been reunited with his mother, Clara Rojas, some three years after being separated from her.
Former vice presidential candidate Rojas, 44, was released by
rebels of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
last week, after almost six years in captivity.
Her son, Emmanuel, is now three...
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 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday asked governments in the
Americas and in Europe to withdraw leftist Colombian rebel groups from
their lists of terrorist organizations.
In his annual state of the nation address to the Venezuelan
Congress, Chavez said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
and the National...
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 Two long-time hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia were freed Thursday.
They were flown to Venezuela, where they were greeted by Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, who had worked to mediate their release. The
former hostages, politicians Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez, called
for continued efforts to free hundreds of...
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 Two Venezuelan helicopters arrived Thursday in the Colombian town of
San Jose del Guaviare, in a second attempt to secure the release of two
hostages held by leftist rebels.
Irma Alvarez, spokeswoman for the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) in Venezuela, told Venezuelan state television channel
VTV that the...
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 DNA tests indicate that there is a high probability that a boy held in
a state child protection facility is the son of Clara Rojas, a hostage
of leftist rebels who gave birth to the boy in captivity, Colombian
Attorney General Mario Iguaran said Friday.
After meeting with other high government officials in the northern
Colombian...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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