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Although her countrymen can no longer afford the imported rice that has come to dominate their diet, Josiane Desjardin sees little hope of reviving the domestic crop that once grew abundantly in the fertile estuary of the Artibonite River.

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The United States and Colombia have long been wary of Venezuela’s peacetime military buildup, suspecting the weapons could end up in the hands of drug-trafficking Colombian rebels.Now they have documented reasons for their worries _ certified by...

 
 
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is denouncing as “ridiculous” an Interpol report on documents that Colombia says were retrieved from the computers of slain rebels.

 
 
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A retired army colonel has been charged in the killing of renowned Chilean folk singer Victor Jara following the 1973 coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

 
 
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Interpol will report Thursday that Colombia did not tamper with computers it says it seized during an attack on a leftist rebel camp, security officials said.

 
 
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President Hugo Chavez is warning Colombia against any U.S. military base near its border with Venezuela, though neither Colombia nor the United States have publicly suggested such a plan.

 
 
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A Pentagon official said Wednesday he will not resign as legal adviser to war-crimes tribunals at Guantanamo, despite his removal from the trial of Osama bin Laden’s driver because of a lack of impartiality.

 
 
May 15 2008 by AP0 Comments

Hackers often harness the combined power of thousands of virus-infected personal computers to pump out spam e-mail or disable targeted servers by overwhelming them with Internet traffic.

 
 
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The U.N. peacekeeping chief warned Wednesday of an alarming increase in violence in Darfur that has spread to the Sudanese capital and could escalate further.

 
 
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Officials say two police officers were shot and killed in northern Mexico when they tried to stop gunmen from kidnapping a family.

 
 
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Colombian police seized US$25 million (euro16 million) in properties Wednesday from a paramilitary warlord extradited to the U.S. on drug-trafficking charges.

 
 
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Joel Escalona is a freelance designer of products, furniture, packaging, graphic design and digital design. He tries to create functional products weather it be Marrano, the playfully big rounded stools or Caracool for children in the garden or Tubo...

 
 
Feb 29 2008 by Pankaj4 Comments

A few people can really imagine the courage it takes to relish the breathtaking scenery of “Death Road”, the only western route into La Paz. Those people who like to think of themselves as brave hearts should challenge “Death Road” in the eye but...

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Jan 1 2008 by Sunit0 Comments

It is difficult to assess just who is dictating whom in the long running bitter feud between the Colombian government and FARC rebels. With the hostage release efforts as good as over, both the parties are blaming each other for the blemish, which is...

 
 
Dec 23 2007 by Gagandeep0 Comments

Love him or hate him, but you have to like the way he flaunts his oil reserves. The fact that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves outside of the Mid-east has permitted Hugo Chavez (Venezuela�s President) to do a lot of things which he...

 
 
Sep 13 2007 by Rajni0 Comments

Few days back I wrote about the maiden Inca mummy (La Doncella) that went for display in Argentina Museum. Also, I mentioned the two other bodies that were found in an icy pit on Mount Llullaillaco. I�ve got some interesting facts about these Inca...

 
 
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