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This year alone, two countries in Latin America have loosened punishment for personal drug consumption, and two others have moved closer to a similar scenario.
Just a few years back, this would have provoked an outcry in the US.
In fact it did...
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Surgeons successfully removed the four most life-threatening needles from the lung and heart area of a Brazilian toddler, and are evaluating when to extract dozens more...
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Sao Paulo. The 2 month old boy is struggling for his life with 50 metal needles inserted in his stomach by his step father with the help of 2 other woman as a black...
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A two-year-old boy has been hospitalized in serious condition in Barreiras, a city 858 kilometers (533 miles) from Salvador, capital of Brazil’s northeastern...
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By 35 votes to 27, the Brazilian Senate approved today, December 15, the entry of Venezuela to Mercosur. The issue caused a dispute between the opposition and the...
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Brazilian analysts say that the political coincidences of the two-day Mercosur presidential summit held in Montevideo last week overshadowed the lack of relevant...
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Brazilian police officers in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, in the country’s Southeast, routinely resort to lethal force, often committing extrajudicial...
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Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, urged Latin American countries on Friday to “think twice” about establishing links with Iran, which she said is...
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Brazil. The name alone evokes images of balmy beaches, bronzed bodies, or Bossa ballads. But beneath the veneer of this plastic surgery tropical paradise lurks an ugly,...
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Talking about the efficiency of the Brazilian economy president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said during the 32nd Meeting of the Full Council of Economic and Social...
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Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human...
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What might be more vital for a human being than a breath of air?
In the third millennium said to be a paramount of achievements humankind having climbed to a date,...
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Thieves who spent months tunneling from a rented house to an armored car company’s safe made off with nearly $6 million over the weekend, making their getaway as...
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Recently a major petroleum producing country located in a region recognized for anti-Americanism and fragile democracies completed negotiations on a multi-billion...
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With a hieght of 110 meters and 35 centimeters, Mexico City’s Christmas tree in Glorieta de la Palma has officially broken yet another world record.
At exactly...
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Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during a press conference in Berlin, this Thursday, December 3, suggested that the US and Russia should first get rid of...
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Candido Godol, a small town in Brazil, has long astonished the world with its very abnormally high level of birth rates for twins. The rate is nearly a thousand percent...
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Brazil received a huge boost in its international image with its selection as the host of the 2016 Olympics, but it was really just the cherry on top of the overall...
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From Portugal where he arrived this Sunday, November 29, to take part in the Ibero-American Summit, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva reiterated the...
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The Brazilian minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Amorim, reaffirmed on Thursday divergences with the United States regarding the political crisis in Honduras before the...
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Lining the top of a steep slope down to the water is a row of solid but rustic wooden homes. A short walk into the brush behind, manioc root crops, and maybe some bean...
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Four decades ago, President Richard Nixon turned a phrase that would become an unquestioned keystone of US policy: the “war on drugs.”
Since then, Latin...
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Les Echos, a French daily, has shown a little of what they say happened backstage during the negotiations between Brazil and France to buy the French military jet...
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The United States was founded as an “infant empire,” in the words of George Washington. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture. From...
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Brazil’s leader has called on US President Barack Obama to meet South American leaders to calm fears about the US military presence in Colombia.
Luiz Inacio Lula...
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It is the cocaine deal that threatens to divide a continent. President Uribe of Colombia has brought stability to his country by crushing the Farc guerrilla movement,...
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US plans to increase the number of troops in Colombia is drawing opposition, not just from left-wing populist leaders in the region but also from moderate governments...
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Brazil, Chile and Spain have challenged a US decision to use and expand military bases in Colombia, saying they fear heightened tensions in Latin America.
President...
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We are going to get various tank battalions, at least double, infantry and artillery,” said Mr Chavez as he criticised Colombia’s decision to grant US...
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The recent coup in Honduras, while I believe was in constitutional bounds and should be a supported as the restoration of democracy; should nonetheless revive the idea...
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HE simply said that he was surprised by the recognition – the 280th Anniversary plaque – presented to him by for his upright stand in defense of the traditions of...
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The future of American-Latin American relations is extremely important. For the past sixty years, the US has taken a strong interest in Latin America initially as a...
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In the previous article I did a brief analysis of the choices that the Democrats will do to minimize the effects of economic crisis. To be more specific, I criticized...
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