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Guatemalan mudslide kills 35, injures 15
(AP)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:25:00 GMT
 AP - Rescuers dug through tons of mud late Monday in search of more victims of a massive landslide that buried a long stretch of highway in northern Guatemala, killing at least 35 coffee workers and travelers using the road.
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Hemingway's Cuba papers available electronically
(AP)
Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:11:46 GMT
AP - Cuba on Monday began accepting requests for electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway's home on the island, including the unpublished epilogue of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and coded messages the author sent when using his yacht to hunt for German submarines during World War II.
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Guatemalans dig for bodies after landslide kills 34
(Reuters)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:19:08 GMT
 Reuters - Rescue workers dug with shovels and their bare hands to recover bodies on Monday after at least 34 coffee workers were killed by a landslide as they walked along a road in northern Guatemala.
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Police: Mexican woman in wheelchair flees on foot
(AP)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:17:07 GMT
AP - Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico. Police spokeswoman Sidlayin Robles says 30-year-old Ana Victoria Perez fled on foot after she and her husband allegedly threw a stone through the front window of a furniture store.
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Chavez backs re-election for Venezuela politicians
(Reuters)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:29:04 GMT
 Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that a constitutional referendum proposed for February to lift limits on presidential re-election will also include a measure to end similar limits for governors and mayors.
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U.S. anti-kidnap expert's vanishing spins Mexico mystery
(Reuters)
Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:28:35 GMT
Reuters - The abduction of a U.S. anti-kidnap expert in northern Mexico last month remains a mystery with no clues to the man's whereabouts and no ransom demanded by his captors, police said on Monday.
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Mexican warlock predicts US troops on border
(AP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:42:47 GMT
 AP - Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock" says the United States will pull troops out of Iraq in 2009 and send them to the border with Mexico in an attempt to expand its territory.
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Mexico Zapatista leader slams Obama over Gaza silence
(AFP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:31:54 GMT
 AFP - Mexico's Zapatista rebel leader "Subcomandante" Marcos slammed US president-elect Barack Obama for failing to speak out on Israel's bombing of Gaza, in a speech on Friday marking the 15th anniversary of his rebellion.
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Raul Castro says hopes too high for Obama
(Reuters)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:49:16 GMT
 Reuters - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama appears to be an honest and sincere man, but his election has awakened "excessive hopes" that the United States will change, Cuban President Raul Castro said in a television interview broadcast on Friday.
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Shootouts leave 8 police wounded in Mexico
(AP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:47:03 GMT
AP - Mexico started off the New Year with a string of shootouts and killings.
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Mexican man arrested in machete killing of doctor
(AP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:40:11 GMT
AP - Police in western Mexico have arrested a farmworker who allegedly hacked a doctor to death with a machete for refusing to treat his son.
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Killings in Mexico border city increase fivefold in 2008
(AFP)
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:06:20 GMT
 AFP - Suspected drug-related killings rose more than fivefold to 1,653 in Mexico's northern border city of Ciudad Juarez in 2008, according to an AFP count based on police reports.
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Mexico rebel leader back in public for 15 year Zapatista anniversary
(AFP)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:53:13 GMT
 AFP - Mexico's Zapatista rebel leader "Subcomandante" Marcos made his first public appearance in more than a year Friday at an event marking the 15th anniversary of his rebellion.
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Mexico security law latest bid to tackle spiraling drug crime
(AFP)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:18:38 GMT
 AFP - Mexico on Friday enacted a security law aiming to centralize law enforcement efforts after a violent 2008 in which the death toll from suspected drug crime more than doubled to over 5,500.
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Castro: Cuba revolution will last another 50 years
(AP)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:20:55 GMT
 AP - President Raul Castro predicted Cuba's revolution will survive another half-century as the communist government marked the 50th anniversary of its triumph amid fears of economic hardship following three devastating hurricanes.
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12 dead in northern Mexico are latest drug war victims
(AFP)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:00:43 GMT
 AFP - Twelve people were killed in northern Mexico close to the US border, including eight in Ciudad Juarez, in the latest violence attributed to the country's brutal drug war.
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Castro says Cuba revolution faces years of struggle
(Reuters)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:22:41 GMT
 Reuters - Cuba's revolution is stronger than ever but faces "incessant struggle" against the threat of the United States, President Raul Castro said on Thursday in a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the uprising that its leader, Fidel Castro, was too ill to attend.
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Preval forecasts grim 2009 for Haitians
(AFP)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:27:14 GMT
 AFP - President Rene Preval told Haitians to avoid rosy expectations for 2009 following the hardships of 2008, as he celebrated the 205th anniversary of the country's independence from France.
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Two Canadians seriously injured in Mexican nightclub shooting
(AFP)
Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:01:45 GMT
AFP - Two Canadians were shot at a nightclub in the western Mexican resort destination of Cabo San Lucas, the Canadian foreign ministry said Thursday.
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Mexico extradites 10 drug suspects to US
(AP)
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:04:52 GMT
AP - Mexico sent 10 alleged drug smugglers to the United States on Wednesday, capping an already record year for extraditions between the two countries.
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