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-On Tuesday, Argentines remembered the twelfth anniversary of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in
-Stocks ended fairly even after trading on Tuesday with losses by steel tube maker Tenaris offsetting gains made by other stocks.
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Bolivia
-The IMF applauded Bolivian efforts to lower inflation while maintaining moderate economic growth.
-The government named four companies to audit its foreign-owned natural gas fields while it continues the process of nationalizing gas reserves.
-Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attended last week’s G8 summit (right image) in
-The calm after the storm: violence in
-Support for President da Silva has gone down for the second straight month and his lead in the polls over Gerardo Ackman has gone down from 16% to 10%.
-Hundreds of Arabs in
-The country’s Supreme Court gave the green light for charges to be presented against ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet for the deaths of two men in the 1970s.
-President Michelle Bachelet declared that
-Legislators okayed a free trade agreement with
Colombia
-Foreign diplomats and human rights groups accused President Alvaro Uribe of carrying a secret campaign to curtail U.N. human rights monitors. These are the same U.N. monitors that have reported of a surge in displaced Colombians over the past few days due to intense fighting between paramilitaries and guerillas.
-Apparently having solved all other important issues, president Uribe wants to launch a bid for Colombia to host the 2014 soccer World Cup inasmuch as the South American Football Confederation has yet to receive a formal bid from Colombia.
-Colombian rockero Juanes (second left image) received
-The casket of a woman killed last week during a partial collapse of a tunnel in
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-Press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (second right image) condemned the Cuban government’s abuses of journalists and the press including the recent detention without trial of two Cuban journalists.
-Care to learn more about U.S.-Cuba relations? Then read this fantastic article from the Council on Foreign Relations.
-Cuban athletes have won 28 gold medals so far during the Central American and Caribbean Games. Only
-Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is thinking about selling its assets in the
Ecuador
-The country’s highest court banned an appeal by ex-president Lucio Gutierrez (third left image) that would have allowed him to run for political office.
-Thousands of people have been evacuated from the area around a volcanic mountain that has been spewing ash and debris over the past few days.
-8 Ecuadorian stowaways that spent 10 days at sea were captured by U.S. Customs Officials in
El Salvador
-Police raids nabbed approximately 200 gang members outside of the Salvadoran capital.
-The government has been lax in investing the unsolved deaths of hundreds of women, according to a report released on Tuesday by human rights organization Amnesty International.
-The Bank of Guatemala said that remittances sent to
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