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12/05/2016 | Frente Externo
Brasil ya tiene su propio Trump en estrella conservadora en ascenso
Jair Bolsonaro es uno de los políticos más influyentes de Río de Janeiro, donde lo eligieron para un séptimo mandato en el Congreso. Grita sus opiniones como un regaño. Sus comentarios son calificados de misóginos, homófobos o racistas
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10/02/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Alberto Nisman redactó orden de arresto contra la presidenta de Argentina
Alberto Nisman, el fiscal cuya misteriosa muerte ha envuelto a la Argentina, habría hecho el borrador de una petición para el arresto de la Presidenta Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, acusándola de intentar escudar a oficiales iraníes de la responsabilidad por el atentado con bomba de 1994 de un centro judío aquí, dijo el principal investigador de su muerte este martes.
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08/02/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Argentina - Whodunit? In Obsessed Nation, Question Becomes Who Didn’t
The obsession with the death of Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor who accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of conspiring with Iran to cover up responsibility for the bombing of a Jewish community center, has grown intense.
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24/01/2014 | Economia y Finanzas
Currency Falls Sharply Against the Dollar, Stirring Inflation Fears
Argentina’s currency, the peso, plunged more than 8 percent on Thursday against the dollar after the country’s central bank tried to stem a decline in international reserves. The sharp decline, with the peso dropping the most since Argentina’s 2002 financial crisis, raises concerns that inflation could accelerate even further.
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07/10/2013 | En Profundidad
News of Argentine President’s Latest Ailment Fuels Criticism and Speculation
Argentina’s political system was hit by uncertainty on Sunday after the disclosure that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had sustained a head injury more than seven weeks ago and was told by neurologists over the weekend to rest for a month while receiving treatment for chronic bleeding near her brain.
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14/06/2013 | En Parrilla
Argentina Falls From Its Throne as King of Beef
A thick slab of grass-fed sirloin dripping in its own juices: so many Argentines consider such a feast a birthright to be enjoyed regularly that one president in the 1990s quipped to an American magazine, “Tell your readers, ‘Don’t come to my country if they’re vegetarian.’ ”
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30/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Prosecutor in Argentina Sees Iranian Plot in Latin America
The special prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center here that killed 85 people released a report on Wednesday claiming that Iran had set up intelligence stations in different parts of Latin America with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks directly or through Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group.
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07/05/2013 | En Parrilla
From Jungle, Brazil Aims to Extend Its Reach
Maj. José Maria Ferreira smiled as he listed the threats to human survival in the canopied jungle enveloping this remote military outpost in the Brazilian Amazon.
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26/11/2012 | Medio Ambiente
Swallowing Rain Forest, Cities Surge in Amazon
The Amazon has been viewed for ages as a vast quilt of rain forest interspersed by remote river outposts. But the surging population growth of cities in the jungle is turning that rural vision on its head and alarming scientists, as an array of new industrial projects transforms the Amazon into Brazil’s fastest-growing region.
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23/11/2012 | En Profundidad
Argentina - Reopening an 18-Year-Old Wound in Argentina
Eighteen years have passed since a suicide bomber drove a Renault van loaded with explosives into the headquarters of the Jewish community center here, killing 85 people. Since then, investigations have meandered. Interpol arrest warrants have led nowhere. Aging suspects connected to the attack have begun to die.
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09/08/2012 | Frente Externo
Brazil - Leader’s Torture in the ’70s Stirs Ghosts in Brazil
Her nom de guerre was Estela. Part of a shadowy urban guerrilla group at the time of her capture in 1970, she spent three years behind bars, where interrogators repeatedly tortured her with electric shocks to her feet and ears, and forced her into the pau de arara, or parrot’s perch, in which victims are suspended upside down naked, from a stick, with bound wrists and ankles.
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25/06/2012 | Frente Externo
In Paraguay, Democracy’s All-Too-Speedy Trial
In the span of a few hours on Friday, Paraguay’s Senate convened its members, read a list of accusations and put President Fernando Lugo on trial. Dismissing his request for more time to mount his defense, the senators abruptly voted to oust him from office, spurring a fierce debate across Latin America over the fragility of democratic institutions in a region with a long history of dictatorships.
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08/05/2012 | Frente Externo
Brazil's Rush to Develop Hydroelectric Power Brings Unrest -
The revolt here on the banks of the Madeira River, the Amazon’s largest tributary, flared after sunset. At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of laborers who were furious over wages and living conditions began setting fire to the construction site at the Jirau Dam.
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20/04/2012 | En Profundidad
In Brazil and Elsewhere, Dismay at Argentina’s Nationalization Move
In a fiery speech justifying her decision to nationalize the oil company YPF, Argentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, cited her admiration for Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant, and other state oil companies in Latin America.
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07/11/2011 | En Parrilla
Despite Leader’s Death, Colombian Rebels Remain Dangerous, Analysts Say
The killing of the top commander of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group dealt what might be the most severe blow yet to the four-decade-old insurgency, but security experts said Saturday that the rebels still had the ability to regroup and carry on the fight.
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20/09/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
New Fields May Propel Americas to Top of Oil Companies’ Lists
Brazil has begun building its first nuclear submarine to protect its vast, new offshore oil discoveries. Colombia’s oil production is climbing so fast that it is closing in on Algeria’s and could hit Libya’s prewar levels in a few years. ExxonMobil is striking new deals in Argentina, which recently heralded its biggest oil discovery since the 1980s.
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03/07/2011 | En Parrilla
El hermano de Chávez: ¿el sucesor?
En Venezuela, la paulatina prominencia de Adán Chávez se observa con una mezcla de embeleso y temor.
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03/07/2011 | En Parrilla
El hermano de Chávez: ¿el sucesor?
En Venezuela, la paulatina prominencia de Adán Chávez se observa con una mezcla de embeleso y temor.
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03/07/2011 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Noted Leftist Urges Chávez to Release Ailing Judge
Even as President Hugo Chávez slowly recovers in Cuba from cancer surgery, one of his most prominent sources of intellectual inspiration, the American linguist Noam Chomsky, is asking Mr. Chávez to show compassion for another Venezuelan facing a health battle of her own.
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03/07/2011 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Noted Leftist Urges Chávez to Release Ailing Judge
Even as President Hugo Chávez slowly recovers in Cuba from cancer surgery, one of his most prominent sources of intellectual inspiration, the American linguist Noam Chomsky, is asking Mr. Chávez to show compassion for another Venezuelan facing a health battle of her own.
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06/06/2011 | Frente Externo
Peru - Election: Ex-Officer Set to Win Narrow Victory in Peru
Ollanta Humala, a nationalist former military officer who vows to expand antipoverty programs, seemed headed to a victory by the narrowest of margins in the presidential election against his rival, Keiko Fujimori, according to incomplete official returns.
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06/06/2011 | Frente Externo
Peru - Election: Ex-Officer Set to Win Narrow Victory in Peru
Ollanta Humala, a nationalist former military officer who vows to expand antipoverty programs, seemed headed to a victory by the narrowest of margins in the presidential election against his rival, Keiko Fujimori, according to incomplete official returns.
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12/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Venezuela Asked Colombian Rebels to Kill Opposition Figures, Analysis Shows
Colombia’s main rebel group has an intricate history of collaboration with Venezuelan officials, who have asked it to provide urban guerrilla training to pro-government cells here and to assassinate political opponents of Venezuela’s president, according to a new analysis of the group’s internal communications.
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12/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Venezuela Asked Colombian Rebels to Kill Opposition Figures, Analysis Shows
Colombia’s main rebel group has an intricate history of collaboration with Venezuelan officials, who have asked it to provide urban guerrilla training to pro-government cells here and to assassinate political opponents of Venezuela’s president, according to a new analysis of the group’s internal communications.
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01/05/2011 | Frente Externo
A Candidate in Peru Tacks Toward Brazil’s Course
In his failed 2006 bid for Peru’s presidency, Ollanta Humala donned red T-shirts, boasted of plans to assert state control over energy resources and blasted opponents for warming to the United States, using elements from the playbook that was then helping propel leftist political allies of Venezuela to electoral victories in Latin America.
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01/05/2011 | Frente Externo
A Candidate in Peru Tacks Toward Brazil’s Course
In his failed 2006 bid for Peru’s presidency, Ollanta Humala donned red T-shirts, boasted of plans to assert state control over energy resources and blasted opponents for warming to the United States, using elements from the playbook that was then helping propel leftist political allies of Venezuela to electoral victories in Latin America.
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11/04/2011 | En Profundidad
With Aid and Migrants, China Expands Its Presence in a South American Nation
PARAMARIBO, Suriname — The Foreign Ministry’s elegant new headquarters here is a gift from the Chinese government. Chinese signs on hundreds of businesses, from casinos to grocery shops and furniture stores, beckon the residents of this capital. Chinese work crews are paving roads cutting through the jungle.
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01/02/2011 | Frente Externo
After Move to Cut Subsidies, Bolivian Ire Chastens Leader
It was the day after Christmas. President Evo Morales was on a trip to Venezuela, Bolivia’s top ally, so the unenviable task fell to his vice president: announcing an abrupt 73 percent increase in the price of gasoline. The reaction was swift.
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03/01/2011 | Frente Externo
Venezuelan leader led his country from prosperity to chaos
CARLOS Andres Perez, the two-time president who tried to make Venezuela a leader of the developing world during a 1970s oil boom, only to have his legacy upended in a tumultuous 1989 return to the presidency, has died in exile in Miami. He was 88.
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16/10/2010 | Frente Externo
Ecuador Leader Confounds Supporters and Detractors
It would be hard to find someone more representative of this country’s political establishment than Mauricio Gándara, an aristocratic former ambassador to Britain who lobbied for an obscure economics professor named Rafael Correa to become finance minister five years ago.
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20/08/2010 | Frente Externo
Tensions Over Chinese Mining Venture in Peru
In its worldwide quest for commodities, China has scoured South America for everything from Brazilian soybeans to Guyanese timber and Venezuelan oil. But long before it made any of those forays, China put down stakes in this desolate mining town in Peru’s southern desert.
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20/08/2010 | Frente Externo
Tensions Over Chinese Mining Venture in Peru
In its worldwide quest for commodities, China has scoured South America for everything from Brazilian soybeans to Guyanese timber and Venezuelan oil. But long before it made any of those forays, China put down stakes in this desolate mining town in Peru’s southern desert.
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02/07/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
Economies in Latin America Race Ahead
While the United States and Europe fret over huge deficits and threats to a fragile recovery, this region has a surprise in store. Latin America, beset in the past by debt defaults, currency devaluations and the need for bailouts from rich countries, is experiencing robust economic growth that is the envy of its northern counterparts.
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15/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Venezuela’s Military Ties With Cuba Stir Concerns
The ties between President Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s Communist leaders are plain enough: Cuba has thousands of doctors here, not to mention a smaller number of advisers who help on a breadth of issues, like agricultural engineering and even training Olympic athletes.
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19/04/2010 | Frente Externo
Chávez Says China to Lend Venezuela $20 Billion
President Hugo Chávez said over the weekend that China had agreed to extend $20 billion in loans to Venezuela, pointing to deepening ties between the two countries as China seeks to secure oil supplies here.
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07/12/2009 | Frente Externo
In Bolivia, a Force for Change Endures
The slogans and posters of Che Guevara notwithstanding, this is not Havana circa 1969, nor Managua, 1979. Instead, the fervor in the offices of the Deputy Ministry of Decolonization could only be felt in the Bolivia of President Evo Morales, who seems to be sailing toward a victory in an election on Sunday.
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07/12/2009 | Frente Externo
In Bolivia, a Force for Change Endures
The slogans and posters of Che Guevara notwithstanding, this is not Havana circa 1969, nor Managua, 1979. Instead, the fervor in the offices of the Deputy Ministry of Decolonization could only be felt in the Bolivia of President Evo Morales, who seems to be sailing toward a victory in an election on Sunday.
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11/11/2009 | Economia y Finanzas
Blackouts Plague Energy-Rich Venezuela
This country may be an energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East and one of the world’s mightiest hydroelectric systems, but that has not prevented it from enduring serious electricity and water shortages that seem only to be getting worse.
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11/11/2009 | Economia y Finanzas
Blackouts Plague Energy-Rich Venezuela
This country may be an energy colossus, with the largest conventional oil reserves outside the Middle East and one of the world’s mightiest hydroelectric systems, but that has not prevented it from enduring serious electricity and water shortages that seem only to be getting worse.
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19/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Perú - Sendero Luminoso: Vuelve la guerra
Primero fueron los soldados los que vinieron a Río Seco, un pueblo en las montañas de la jungla del sur de Perú donde se cultiva coca.
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19/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Perú - Sendero Luminoso: Vuelve la guerra
Primero fueron los soldados los que vinieron a Río Seco, un pueblo en las montañas de la jungla del sur de Perú donde se cultiva coca.
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16/06/2008 | Sociedad
Scholar's not-impossible dream: To preserve language of the Incas
'Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago." Simple enough, right? But not for Demetrio Tupac Yupanqui.
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16/06/2008 | Sociedad
Scholar's not-impossible dream: To preserve language of the Incas
'Somewhere in La Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago." Simple enough, right? But not for Demetrio Tupac Yupanqui.
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03/06/2008 | En Parrilla
Chávez decree tightens hold on intelligence
President Hugo Chávez has used his decree powers to carry out a major overhaul of this country's intelligence agencies, provoking a fierce backlash here from human rights groups and legal scholars who say the measures will force citizens to inform on one another to avoid prison terms.
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03/06/2008 | En Parrilla
Chávez decree tightens hold on intelligence
President Hugo Chávez has used his decree powers to carry out a major overhaul of this country's intelligence agencies, provoking a fierce backlash here from human rights groups and legal scholars who say the measures will force citizens to inform on one another to avoid prison terms.
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21/02/2007 | En Parrilla
Familia de Chávez acapara poder - Nepotismo
En la entrada de este polvoriento poblado donde Hugo Chávez nació en 1954, una valla da la bienvenida a los visitantes con una reluciente imagen de Chávez, el presidente, y las palabras, “Cuna de la Revolución”.
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21/02/2007 | En Parrilla
Familia de Chávez acapara poder - Nepotismo
En la entrada de este polvoriento poblado donde Hugo Chávez nació en 1954, una valla da la bienvenida a los visitantes con una reluciente imagen de Chávez, el presidente, y las palabras, “Cuna de la Revolución”.
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21/02/2007 | En Parrilla
Familia de Chávez acapara poder - Nepotismo
En la entrada de este polvoriento poblado donde Hugo Chávez nació en 1954, una valla da la bienvenida a los visitantes con una reluciente imagen de Chávez, el presidente, y las palabras, “Cuna de la Revolución”.
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14/02/2007 | Frente Externo
Sacaca Journal - Ritual Fades Into Blur of Drinking and Fighting
For hundreds of years, the Indians of Bolivia’s high plains have trekked to this town in early February. They dance, drink chicha, the fermented beverage made here from rye, and then fight one another until blood stains the dirt alleyways.
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14/02/2007 | Frente Externo
Sacaca Journal - Ritual Fades Into Blur of Drinking and Fighting
For hundreds of years, the Indians of Bolivia’s high plains have trekked to this town in early February. They dance, drink chicha, the fermented beverage made here from rye, and then fight one another until blood stains the dirt alleyways.
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28/01/2007 | En Parrilla
Doctrinas de Chávez son tantas que se atropellan
Ante unos cuantos millones de espectadores de su programa dominical Aló Presidente, el mandatario venezolano Hugo Chávez dijo recientemente de manera casual: ``Ustedes y yo sabemos que, como dice alguna gente, yo meramente soy un teniente coronel, no soy un doctor summa cum laude. Yo contribuyo modestamente con unas cuantas ideas''.
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28/01/2007 | En Parrilla
Doctrinas de Chávez son tantas que se atropellan
Ante unos cuantos millones de espectadores de su programa dominical Aló Presidente, el mandatario venezolano Hugo Chávez dijo recientemente de manera casual: ``Ustedes y yo sabemos que, como dice alguna gente, yo meramente soy un teniente coronel, no soy un doctor summa cum laude. Yo contribuyo modestamente con unas cuantas ideas''.
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17/10/2006 | Frente Externo
ECUADOR - Link To Chávez May Have Hurt Ecuadorean Candidate
Rafael Correa, the charismatic economist who garnered a surprisingly weak showing Sunday in the first round of voting for president, finds himself in a situation that has plagued leftists in other Latin American elections this year: defending his ties to President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.
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21/08/2006 | Frente Externo
Venezuela: la retórica separa y el dólar une
El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, declaró recientemente en Vietnam que ''el capitalismo conducirá a la destrucción de la Humanidad'', durante una gira internacional que incluyó a Irán y Bielorrusia.
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15/06/2005 | Economia y Finanzas
Demand for Natural Gas Brings Big Import Plans, and Objections
Just as the 19th century was shaped by coal and the 20th century by oil, people in the energy industry say, this century will belong to natural gas. But to judge by the battle over energy legislation that began yesterday in Congress, it will not happen easily.
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