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Venezuela to Buy Russian Short-Range Missiles
World  (tags: russia, moscow, venezuela, HugoChavez, conflict, crisis, missiles, world, news, humans, politics, government, u.s., America, colombia, SouthAmerica, americas, war, drugs, weapons, military, cold-war, violence )

SirRobert
- 73 days ago - independent.co.uk
Since the U.S. stopped all weapons sales to Venezuela (Hugo Chavez) in 2006, the Russians have filled this void with a series of arms deals with Chavez. Is Russia reverting to Cold War 'create a crisis' tactics? Moscow will sell Chavez anything he desires
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Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon To Oil Drilling and Logging Deforestation
World  (tags: peru, amazon, rainforest, climate-change, global warming, protests, deaths, oil, oil-drilling, logging, deforestation, world, americas, violence, corruption, news, environment, ecosystems, government, forests, habitatdestruction, HumanRights )

SirRobert
- 164 days ago - nytimes.com
Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru's Congress this week has suspended the decrees that had set off the protests, which were focused upon saving the Amazon rainforests.
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FATHER ROY: Inside the School of Assassins
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', asia, death, ethics, freedoms, terrorism, Americas )

Brandy
- 174 days ago - pbs.org
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation (formerly the U.S. Army School of the Americas) in Fort Benning, GA, according to one U.S. Congressman, has "the nefarious distinction of being the place in the United States where the worst hu
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Cuba: Only US Refuses Normal Relations
World  (tags: Cuba, Cubans, blockade, imperialism, usa, U.S. Trade Policy, US Government, US imperialism, neocolonialism, Americas, embargo )

Simon
- 244 days ago - greenleft.org.au
The government of Costa Rica & the new leftwing government of El Salvador have both pledged to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba. This leaves the US as the only country in the Americas without normal diplomatic relations with Cuba, plus a blockade.
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Massive Mudslide in Tartagal,Argentina.
World  (tags: Americas, ClimateChange, environment, forests, news )

Monica
- 286 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A massive mudslide set off by heavy downpours has swept away a railway bridge and swamped houses in the Argentine town of Tartagal.
7 comments
Violent Political Dangers Rising For Hugo Chavez
World  (tags: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Americas, conflict, crime, death, freedoms, government, HumanRights, humanrights, news, politics, society, terrorism, usa, u.s., violence, world, americans )

SirRobert
- 371 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
For the first time in years, Venezuela's political opposition leaders are poised to break President Hugo Chavez's hold on local and state offices. Sanchez is one reason why!
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