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  • Latin America-Europe leaders make pledges 17 May 2008 08:13 GMT
    ... Venezuela's Hugo Chavez in efforts to support Colombian rebels. Interpol's report prompted impassioned denials from ... policy differences, participants seemed to overcome sharper political feuds, such as that brewing between Venezuela ... we have (on the continent) is the government of Colombia," Chavez said in brief remarks ...

  • EU, Latin America leaders stress trade, environment at summit 17 May 2008 08:06 GMT
    ... Lima. The 50 heads of state and government pledged in a joint statement to "actively ... American countries and the Andean Community (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru). They also stated that ... Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, French Prime Minister ...

  • Letter: Free trade bolsters nation's economy 17 May 2008 07:40 GMT
    ... other nations. One pending agreement is with Colombia. Currently, Colombian imports enter our nation mostly ... pass overwhelmingly, but was the victim of election-year politics. The obstruction of this win-win agreement was ...

  • Ecuador rejects Interpol analysis on computers of Colombian rebel group 17 May 2008 07:39 GMT
    ... captured from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. "Interpol's report doesn't have credibility because once ... to prove any link between the Venezuelan government and Colombia's rebel groups. It was a ... group, Chavez told a press conference. Ecuadorian political analyst Cesar Montufar said, based on the ...

  • McCain asks staff to disclose lobbying ties 17 May 2008 07:37 GMT
    ... some years ago, been involved with the government of Burma, so I needed to fix ... reputation as a reformer of money in politics. "Senator McCain asking his lobbyist pal Rick ... word surfaced that he had met with Colombian government representatives to help promote a trade ...

  • Survivors found five days after China quake 17 May 2008 07:35 GMT
    ... Sichuan province, the first time the Chinese government has accepted foreign professionals for a domestic ... cooperation with the Chinese side," a foreign ministry official said in Tokyo. About 40 rescuers ... a trove of computer documents seized from Colombia's FARC guerrillas which Bogota says prove close ...

  • World briefings 5.17 17 May 2008 06:58 GMT
    ... than the day before, though the national government has said it expects the figure to ... E-mails linking Venezuela, FARC are legitimate BOGOTA, Colombia -- Interpol said Thursday that it is ... for the highest-level talks since the country's political crisis began 18 months ago. The talks ...

  • Mokbel arrives, faces court Tuesday 17 May 2008 06:56 GMT
    ... Essendon airport, near Tullamarine. Federal Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus congratulated Victorian Police and the ... avoid extradition finally failed when the Greek government last week signed the order to send ... various rumours, he fled via Malaysia, Turkey, Colombia, South Africa, Egypt, Lebanon and Dubai before ...

  • Latin-America-Europe summit begins under feud 17 May 2008 06:55 GMT
    ... show of unity despite a feud between Colombia and Venezuela that threatened to disrupt their ... to focus on cooperation rather than letting political feuds such as that between Venezuela and ... we have (on the continent) is the government of Colombia," Chavez said in brief remarks ...

  • French PM: Andean political spat must not hamper efforts to rescue hostage Betancourt 17 May 2008 06:37 GMT
    ... linking Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to a Colombian guerrilla group must not hamper efforts to ... to free hostage Ingrid Betancourt, France's prime minister said. Betancourt, a French-Colombian citizen, is one ... authenticity of computer files that suggest Chavez's government had sought to finance and arm the ...

  • Fifth Latin America-EU Summit advocates democracy 17 May 2008 06:35 GMT
    ... for themselves," a spokesman of the German government stated on Monday in Berlin after claiming ... story that quoted the reaction of some politicians, such as Foreign Policy expert Eckart von ... rightwing that supported Adolf Hitler," and his Colombian counterpart Álvaro Uribe, who, according to Chávez, ...

  • Interpol authenticates files from Reyes' computers 17 May 2008 06:35 GMT
    ... of Raúl Reyes, the second-in-command of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), and seized by ... Forces (FARC), and seized by the Colombian government, the FARC perpetrated the massacre of September ... campaign in 2006, AP reported. Venezuelan Defense Minister does not trust in Reyes' laptop Any ...

  • Latin-Europe summit begins under feud 17 May 2008 06:20 GMT
    ... show of unity despite a feud between Colombia and Venezuela that threatened to disrupt their ... to focus on cooperation rather than letting political feuds such as that between Venezuela and ... we have (on the continent) is the government of Colombia," Chavez said in brief remarks ...

  • Alleged Chavez-Colombian rebel ties rile summit 17 May 2008 06:19 GMT
    ... vote based on interviews with almost 19,000 voters at 100 stations across the country, said ... were still counting ballots Friday night. BOGOTA, COLOMBIA — The feuding presidents of the Andean ... that suggest officials of Hugo Chavez's socialist government may have offered the guerrillas money and ...

  • Latin America-Europe summit pledges to fight poverty, food prices despite political feud 17 May 2008 06:17 GMT
    ... policy differences, participants seemed to overcome sharper political feuds, such as that brewing between Venezuela and Colombia. Interpol on Thursday confirmed the integrity of ... we have (on the continent) is the government of Colombia," Chavez said in brief remarks ...

  • EU and Latinamerican leaders promise tighter trade ties 17 May 2008 06:16 GMT
    ... the Andean Community, made up of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. “We want trade, but ... led to the ouster of the Prime Minister. Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has ... shake. Chavez had described Merkel as a political descendant of Adolf Hitler on comments from the ...

  • Right-wing Colombian group appears in court 17 May 2008 06:16 GMT
    ... right-wing paramilitary group who was extradited from Colombia made his first appearance in Houston federal ... Vaden said in court that the federal government believes Ruiz is a flight risk and ... from Denmark who sat on that country's parliament from 1975 to 1979. Another defendant, Carlos ...

  • Mokbel lands in Melbourne 17 May 2008 06:15 GMT
    ... Essendon airport, near Tullamarine. Federal Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus congratulated Victorian Police and the ... avoid extradition finally failed when the Greek government last week signed the order to send ... various rumours, he fled via Malaysia, Turkey, Colombia, South Africa, Egypt, Lebanon and Dubai before ...

  • Can Mexico's Drug Terror Be Stopped? 17 May 2008 05:47 GMT
    ... of a generation rather than of an election cycle. But Mexico's security forces, whose firepower ... gringo-dictated conditions that they see in Plan Colombia, a similar anti-drug aid crusade in South ... trail of hundreds of murdered police, prosecutors, politicians and civilians. The cartels "respond like this ...

  • Mokbel behind bars? 17 May 2008 05:47 GMT
    ... Essendon airport, near Tullamarine. Federal Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus congratulated Victorian Police and the ... avoid extradition finally failed when the Greek government last week signed the order to send ... various rumours, he fled via Malaysia, Turkey, Colombia, South Africa, Egypt, Lebanon and Dubai before ...

  • Latin America has 'created its own neighbourhood' 17 May 2008 05:38 GMT
    ... site of the illegal military assault by Colombia that massacred over 20 people at a ... verified — despite clear evidence of Colombian government interference with the laptops before handing them ... Venezuelan government would revise diplomatic, economic and political relations with Colombia. Tension between the two ...

  • Mokbel lands in Melbourne 17 May 2008 05:18 GMT
    ... Essendon airport, near Tullamarine. Federal Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus congratulated Victorian Police and the ... avoid extradition finally failed when the Greek government last week signed the order to send ... various rumours, he fled via Malaysia, Turkey, Colombia, South Africa, Egypt, Lebanon and Dubai before ...

  • Ecuador rejects Interpol analysis on computers of Colombian rebel group 17 May 2008 05:17 GMT
    ... captured from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. "Interpol's report doesn't have credibility because once ... to prove any link between the Venezuelan government and Colombia's rebel groups. It was a ... group, Chavez told a press conference. Ecuadorian political analyst Cesar Montufar said, based on the ...

  • Latin America-Europe summit shadowed by conflicts between regional leaders 17 May 2008 04:43 GMT
    ... summit was clouded by a feud between Colombia and Venezuela. The gathering came just a ... we have (in the continent) is the government of Colombia,” Chavez said in brief remarks ... with the FARC as well. Correa's justice minister, Gustavo Jalkh, insisted on Friday that the ...

  • 2008-09 Nieman Fellows Named 17 May 2008 04:40 GMT
    ... Times, will study the intersection among religion, politics and immigration, with a focus on the ... will study the relationship between business and government in some South American countries ruled by ... Nieman Society of Southern Africa. Margarita Martinez (Colombia), freelance filmmaker, plans to focus on film, ...


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