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Friction evident as Mexican president visits US

Pres. Felipe Calderón

Mark Stevenson Associated Press Writer Mexico City (AP) — The human and financial costs of Mexico’s drug war, diplomatic cable leaks, the influx of U.S. arms, and a wave of anti-immigration initiatives in the United States are all taking a toll on Mexico-U.S. relations that had shown steady improvement in recent years. As President Felipe [...]

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March 3rd, 2011 | Posted in International | Read More »

Dilma Rousseff sworn in as Brazil’s new president

Dilma Rouseff

Bradley Brooks Associated Press Brasilia, Brazil (AP) — From torture in a dictatorship-era jail cell to the helm of Latin America’s largest nation, it’s been an unlikely political rise for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel turned career technocrat who claimed Brazil’s seat of power Jan. 1. In becoming the country’s 36th president, Rousseff [...]

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January 7th, 2011 | Posted in Featured,International | Read More »

Hugo Chávez seeks power to rule by decree for 1 year

Hugo Chavez

Fabiola Sánchez Associated Press Caracas, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Tuesday asked congress to grant him special powers to enact laws by decree for one year, just before a new legislature takes office with a larger contingent of opposition lawmakers. The measure would give the president the ability to bypass the National [...]

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December 15th, 2010 | Posted in International,Top News | Read More »

UN meeting OKs climate deal over Bolivia protest

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

Arthur Max Associated Press Cancún, Mexico (AP) — A U.N. climate conference on Saturday approved a deal to create a “green” fund for developing countries and to take other small steps to address global warming, over heated objections from Bolivia that the pact doesn’t go far enough. The agreement in Cancun went a long way [...]

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December 13th, 2010 | Posted in International,Top News | Read More »

Mexico sees US emissions target as ‘modest’

Luis Alfonso de Alba

Mark Stevenson Associated Press Cancun, Mexico (AP) — The host nation of the U.N. climate talks in Cancun on Wednesday called the U.S. pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions “modest,” while praising other nonbinding offers made by India and China. President Barack Obama has proposed reducing U.S. emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 [...]

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December 2nd, 2010 | Posted in International | Read More »

Economists say poverty falls in Latin America

Santiago, Chile (AP) — Economists say poverty in Latin America is declining as the region struggles to recover from two years of financial crisis. The U.N.’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean estimates that 180 million people are living in poverty today in Latin American countries, which represents a return to 2008 levels. [...]

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December 2nd, 2010 | Posted in International | Read More »

Mexicans celebrate food as intangible heritage

A man prepares traditional Oaxacan food

Mexico City (AP) —The quesadilla had more zip Wednesday and the taco tasted just a bit sweeter as Mexico celebrated its food being put on the United Nations list of intangible cultural heritage, alongside the lofty art of eating in France. The U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recognized everything from the growing of [...]

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November 19th, 2010 | Posted in International | Read More »

Monarch butterfly gets Mexico conservation center

Monarch Butterfly

Mexico City (AP) —Mexico’s celebrated winter visitor, the Monarch butterfly, has a new conservation center aimed at boosting its dwindling numbers. The black and orange insect has been hit hard by deforestation around its winter nesting grounds in Michoacan state. Environmentalists say that last winter, only about one-fourth as many butterflies migrated to Mexico from [...]

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November 18th, 2010 | Posted in International | Read More »

Nicaragua irks Mexico, Costa Rica with drug talk

Daniel Ortega

Mexico City (AP) — Recriminations from a border dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica rippled throughout the region Sunday as Mexico and Costa Rica hotly denied Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s suggestion that drug-trafficking interests were behind a regional vote on the issue that didn’t go his way. The Mexican Foreign Relations Department said in a [...]

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November 16th, 2010 | Posted in International | Read More »

New congress in troubled Mexican state sworn in

Gabino Cué

Ixtli Martínez Associated Press Writer Oaxaca, Mexico (AP) — Citizens who formerly led street protests and manned barricades in the troubled southern state of Oaxaca were sworn in as members of the local congress Saturday, in what the governor-elect called a historic change. Flavio Sosa, the leader of leftist protesters who battled police and shut [...]

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November 15th, 2010 | Posted in International | Read More »