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LATIN AMERICA - TODAY'S REGIONAL NEWS
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MEXICO: MASSACRE GALVANIZES MIGRANT RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
MEXICO CITY, Sep. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Activists in Latin America have been galvanized by atrocities like the recent massacre of 72 migrants near the U.S. border to step up their efforts on behalf of migrant rights.
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VENEZUELA: HUNGER STRIKER DIES IN LAND DISPUTE
CARACAS, Aug. 31, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Franklin Brito, who held several long hunger strikes since 2004 to defend ownership of his farm, became the first Venezuelan to fast to death.
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SOUTH AMERICA: ARGENTINE BEEF OUTSOLD BY MERCOSUR PARTNERS
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 30, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - South America's Mercosur trade bloc is becoming established as the top world producer of beef, with 40 percent of the international market. But while in Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay production and exports are growing, Argentina, the home of the legendary "asado" barbecue, is falling behind.
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MINING-CHILE: MAKE GOOD ON CONCERN FOR WORKER SAFETY, SAY UNIONS
SANTIAGO, Aug. 30, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - While efforts get underway to try to rescue the 33 miners who are trapped 700 metres underground in a mine in northern Chile, trade unions are calling on the country's political leaders to tackle the underlying problems of worker safety.
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CHILE: COAL PLANTS UNDER FIRE
SANTIAGO, Aug. 28, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Controversial plans to build the Barrancones thermoelectric plant near a protected area in the northern Chilean region of Coquimbo were cancelled Friday, but not before reviving the debate on other projects for polluting coal-fired power stations.
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GUATEMALA: NEW CHALLENGES FOR ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug. 27, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - New challenges and a long list of shocking cases involving hidden power structures are faced by the new head of the United Nations-mandated International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
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LATIN AMERICA: WANTED: NON-PUNITIVE APPROACH TO DRUG POLICY
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 27, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Experts from 13 Latin American countries called for a shift in counter-drug policies from a punitive to a public health-based approach for users, in order to reduce drug-related violence, on the argument that the current "war on drugs" has been lost in the region.
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MEXICO-ENVIRONMENT: PEASANT ACTIVISTS SEEK JUSTICE IN U.S.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 27, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return to rejoin their families.
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NICARAGUA: MAJOR BLOW TO ILLITERACY AMONG NATIVE GROUPS
MANAGUA, Aug. 26, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - For 46 years, Nicanor García didn't know that his first name was seven letters long and that the first letter was also the start of the names of his country, Nicaragua, and his father, Norberto. He found out just eight months ago, when he finally learned how to read and write.
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PERU: GOV'T TO TRACK DOWN MILLIONS FROM CONVICTED OFFICIALS
LIMA, Aug. 26, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption.
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VENEZUELA: OPPOSITION HOPES TO MAKE A COMEBACK
CARACAS, Aug. 26, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - The campaign for Venezuela's Sept. 26 legislative elections is officially on, and the opposition, which boycotted the last vote five years ago, is back in the running, hoping to win enough seats to act as a counterweight to President Hugo Chávez.
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