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Venezuela acquires 1,800 antiaircraft missiles from Russia BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - Russia delivered at least 1,800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to Venezuela in 2009, U.N. arms control data show, despite vigorous U.S. efforts to stop President Hugo Chavez's stridently anti-American government from acquiring the
Washington Post | Dec 11, 2010 11:19 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Report notes decrease in Colombian cocaine production Colombia, the world's biggest supplier of cocaine, saw production of the illegal narcotic decline last year amid a government spraying campaign and declining U.S. consumption, according to a report.
Washington Post | Dec 10, 2010 05:59 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Pact could be near to save tropical forests CANCUN, MEXICO - For years, policymakers and scientists alike have spoken of the need to save tropical forests as a way of curbing climate change. By week's end, U.N. negotiators may finally set the rules of the road for doing it.
Washington Post | Dec 8, 2010 03:42 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Iranian cash building bonds with Bolivia EL ALTO, BOLIVIA - Helen Limachi walked out of a gleaming new hospital in this wind-swept city satisfied with the care her 4-month-old son, Fabricio, had received for his ailing hip.
Washington Post | Dec 6, 2010 03:23 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Cables released by WikiLeaks reveal U.S. concerns over South America The State Department wanted to know whether Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was on medication. American diplomats in Brazil, meanwhile, heard that Bolivia's indigenous president, Evo Morales, had a tumor.
Washington Post | Dec 3, 2010 12:32 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Bolivia walks thin line as it struggles to battle coca production IN COROICO, BOLIVIA In this remote corner of the Andes, three hours from Bolivia's capital city, Adela Mamani Poma earns $5 a day growing one of the world's most controversial crops.
Washington Post | Nov 14, 2010 02:52 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Rousseff is Brazil's first female president Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla turned button-down technocrat with expertise in everything from energy to high finance, comfortably won Brazil's presidency Sunday in a contest that demonstrated voter loyalty to the man who handpicked her for th
Washington Post | Nov 1, 2010 12:38 PM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Ex-Argentine president Nestor Kirchner dies at 60 BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - Nestor Kirchner, an Argentine power broker who as president from 2003 to 2007 helped guide his country out of a calamitous economic crisis, died Oct. 27 after an apparent heart attack.
Washington Post | Oct 28, 2010 02:08 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

At 102, Brazil's foremost architect celebrates past achievements, looks to the future BRASILIA - Oscar Niemeyer, a towering figure in 20th-century architecture, is now 102, confined to a wheelchair, his vision faltering, his hand unsteady. It has been 50 years since his greatest accomplishment, designing the monumental buildings of a Brazi
Washington Post | Oct 18, 2010 02:39 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

Brazilian scientists turning nation into an agro-power Once seen as a wasteland, Brazil's Cerrado - a wide savannah that covers nearly a quarter of the country - is now the motor of an agro-industry so potent that Brazil threatens to surpass the United States as breadbasket to the world.
Washington Post | Oct 17, 2010 01:51 AM [GMT] | comment? | recommend

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