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Andres Oppenheimer: While Pacific Alliance thrives, Mercosur withers
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos may not have been hallucinating when he said last week that the Pacific Alliance - the bloc made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile - "is the new economic and development engine of Latin America and the...Tags: European Union, Productivity, Dilma Rousseff, United Nations, Mexico
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Bondholders spark U.S. legal drama over Argentine debt
Collection agencies profit by buying up old debt, chasing borrowers for payment and, when all else fails, using the courts to recover as much as they can. It's a business model polished and perfected over decades of litigation. But what if the...
Tags: United Nations, Trials, Mutual Funds, U.S. Department of Justice, Bank of New York Company
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Jorge Rafael Videla dies at 87; Argentine dictator
BUENOS AIRES — Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who presided over that country's so-called dirty war in which up to 30,000 dissidents were murdered or disappeared, died Friday while serving a 50-year prison sentence. He was 87. He...Tags: Judges, Prisoners and Detainees, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Human Rights
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The Week Ahead: Suu Kyi sojourn, Thatcher farewell, Italy adrift
Testing the waters for a revitalized Asian alliance Now through Saturday, April 20: Democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to Japan this week is purportedly unofficial, but the Nobel Peace Prize laureate probably has more clout than any...
Tags: Margaret Thatcher, Japan, Elections, Aung San Suu Kyi, Politics
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Death of Thatcher stirs up wartime memories in Argentina
Argentine veterans of the bitter war over the Falkland Islands said Monday that they had no sorrow over the death of Margaret Thatcher, who launched British forces to recapture the South Atlantic islands more than three decades ago. “She won&...
Tags: United Kingdom, Politics, Argentina, Government, Heads of State
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Argentina mourns as flooding death toll rises to 55
As the waters receded Thursday, Argentina mourned scores of people killed in floods that raged through Buenos Aires province, knocking out power and forcing thousands to evacuate. Gov. Daniel Scioli told reporters in Argentina that the death toll in the...
Tags: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Politics, Argentina, Government, National Government
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Pope Francis takes office
VATICAN CITY -- Before crowned heads, government leaders and masses of the faithful, Pope Francis formally took office Tuesday as head of the Roman Catholic Church in a ceremony replete with pageantry and symbols from ancient Christendom. In a homily,...Tags: Christianity, Francis I, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, The Pope
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Pope Francis meets Argentine president, smooths tensions
ROME – He called her policies an “attack on God’s plan.” She described him as “medieval.” But Pope Francis and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the leader of his native Argentina, kissed and made up Monday...
Tags: Francis I, Politics, Religious Leaders, Argentina, Government
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How Pope Francis can reinvigorate the church
Newly elected Pope Francis represents change in many respects. He is the first pope from the New World (and the first from outside of Europe in 1,200 years), the first Jesuit and the first Francis. But for American Catholics, who in poll after poll in...Tags: AIDS, Christianity, Elections, John Paul II, Politics
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Funeral begins for Venezuela's Chavez
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CARACAS, Venezuela -- The funeral ceremony for late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez got underway Friday at a military base in the capital before 32 heads of state and with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra directed by Los Angeles conductor Gustavo...Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, Sebastian Pinera, Elections, Jesse Jackson
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Argentina is cautionary tale as U.S. debates debt limit
You know all those warnings about how America's addiction to deficit spending is going to make us look like Greece? Stop worrying. The bigger concern should be that America will look like Argentina. That could happen, theoretically, if the...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Barack Obama, Loans, Money and Monetary Policy, Politics
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Forecast gap keeps wheat market guessing on Argentine crop
BUENOS AIRES - The global wheat market has the least clarity in five years on South America's biggest crop as Argentine growers hit by adverse weather say the government is exaggerating harvest estimates to contain price increases. The government's...Tags: European Union, Georgetown, South America, Buenos Aires (Argentina), Politics
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