Bogota's latest complaint that Venezuela is harboring Colombian rebels is seen as a signal of President Uribe's displeasure with his successor's olive branch to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
It was a Wednesday night in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, and Jared Cohen, the youngest member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, and Alec Ross, the first senior adviser for innovation to the secretary of state, were taking their tweeting very seriously.
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Tomar las cosas demasiado en serio nunca trae buena cuenta. Camilo José
O crescimento do setor de petróleo e gás produziu um passivo ambiental de cinco mil quilômetros de extensão. Investidores e governo abandonaram a regularização de empreendimentos antigos por causa da prioridade de erguer infra-estrutura nova. Doze dutos interestaduais de transporte de gás natural e petróleo não possuem o aval do Instituto Brasileiro de Meio Ambiente e Recursos Renováveis (Ibama).
The former president of Peru, Alberto K Fujimori, who is fighting extradition to Peru on human rights and corruption charges, may run for a seat in Japan's legislative elections, his spokesman said.
A passagem do Dia Mundial dos Refugiados terá no Brasil um significado especial este ano. Após seis anos fechado, o escritório do Acnur no país reabriu as portas há dois meses e meio, como mais uma ferramenta para auxiliar os 3.200 refugiados que buscaram asilo em terras verde-amarelas. Amanhã, em parceria com a arquidiocese, o órgão da ONU vai realizar uma feira de saúde e lazer para os refugiados, a maioria dos quais — aproximadamente 2.000 — encontra-se no Rio de Janeiro, sendo o maior contingente composto de angolanos.
One approach defines a Hispanic or Latino as a member of an ethnic group that traces its roots to 20 Spanish-speaking nations from Latin America and Spain itself (but not Portugal or Portuguese-speaking Brazil). The other approach is much simpler. Who's Hispanic? ...
The apartment is on the second story of a three-story, walk-up building, constructed of concrete about 40 years ago. The old city is Cartagena's tourist and cultural center; shopping, dining and public transportation are within walking distance.
President Obama ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to the Mexico border in an effort to reach out to Republicans. He'll need their support to move forward on immigration reform.
Argentina has legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, becoming the first country in Latin America to give gays and lesbians all the legal rights that marriage brings to heterosexual couples.
Recent elections in Colombia have resulted in reactions to its pitiful electorate process. While it is true that elections do not equal democracy, the act of freely casting a secret vote remains an enduring image and feature of democratic life...
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Algo vai muito mal nos serviços de inteligência dos EUA e da Inglaterra: ambas as agências não sabem espionar. Os dois birôs, que construíram fama durante a Guerra Fria, se mostraram incompetentes tanto para alertar a Casa Branca quanto Downing Street sobre ameaças iminentes a seus países, segundo as comissões. Pior, porém, é que em vez de atenderem a interesses legítimos de uma nação, passaram clara impressão de que viraram instrumentos políticos de governos que precisavam, diante da opinião pública, justificar ações como a invasão do Iraque.
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