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Israel's Peres: Chavez, Ahmadinejad will fall

Israel President Shimon Peres predicts the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long. Speaking at a forum in Argentina Tuesday, Peres said both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have gone crazy over oil, ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, eTaiwan News,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Shimon Peres,  Hugo Chávez,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Press group: Latam governments moving in on press

Latin American governments are increasingly intervening in the news business, creating and favoring official media, regulating content and distribution and using other legal methods to silence their critics, a newspaper group said Sunday. Some ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, eTaiwan News,  8 Nov 2009

News group: Latin American gov'ts restrict press

Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday. Tactics include revoking broadcast licenses, fostering ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, eTaiwan News,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Santos, Ltd.,  Nestor Kirchner

Ex-soldiers want to reveal Chile dirty war secrets

SANTIAGO, Chile - Hundreds of former military draftees rallying outside Chile's presidential palace were asked Sunday to come forward and reveal crimes they committed and witnessed during Gen. ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  1 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Augusto Pinochet,  Salvador Allende

Chile: Old soldiers ready to tell secrets of coup

SANTIAGO, Chile - Hundreds of former military draftees are making a provocative offer to Chile's government: They will reveal details of crimes committed by Gen. ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  1 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Augusto Pinochet,  Salvador Allende

Argentine enviro secretary fined for dirty river

BUENOS AIRES — Environmentalists praised a judge on Wednesday for fining Argentina's environmental secretary and two local politicians for failing to clean up the polluted river that flows sluggishly through the heart of the capital. More than 4,100 ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, Newsvine,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Carlos Menem

Ex-guerrilla just shy of outright win in Uruguay

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - A blunt-talking former guerrilla fell just short of a first-round victory in Uruguay's presidential election, according to results Monday, and his conservative opponents have united in hopes of leaping past him in a Nov. ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Luis Alberto Lacalle,  U.S. Congress,  Mark Jones,  Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva

Ex-guerrilla, rival in Uruguay presidential runoff

Jose "Pepe" Mujica, the candidate of the governing Broad Front coalition, got 47.5 percent of the votes Sunday, short of the more than 50 percent needed to win the election outright. Ex-president Luis Alberto LaCalle got 28.5 percent, and Pedro ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, San Francisco Chronicle,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Danilo Astori,  U.S. Congress

Exit polls: Uruguay prez vote headed to 2nd round

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Ruling party candidate Jose "Pepe" Mujica got far more votes than his leading rival in Uruguay's presidential race on Sunday, but exit polls suggest he failed to get the outright majority needed to avoid a runoff election in ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  25 Oct 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress

Uruguayans vote for ex-rebel or ex-president

Voters in Uruguay faced a stark choice in Sunday's presidential election: an ex-rebel who yearns to create enduring socialism or a former center-right president who privatized government services and wants to pull away from alliances with Latin ...

From MICHAEL WARREN, Taiwan News,  25 Oct 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress

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