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Ecuadorian soldiers look at weapons and equipment found in Angostura, Ecuador, near the border with Colombia, where Colombian security forces killed 17 leftist FARC rebels including Luis Edgar Devia, known as Raul Reyes, a top rebel commander
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Venezuela's Chávez rejects FARC report

A defiant President Hugo Chávez is dismissing Interpol's confirmation of the validity of FARC guerrilla computers and threatening to ratchet up the already tense relations with Colombia.

Andres Oppenheimer

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    New president picks too many fights

    When Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won her country's elections last year, I wrote that she was likely to be an improvement over her predecessor and husband Néstor Kirchner. I was wrong.

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Andrés Oppenheimer
Andrés Oppenheimer is a Miami Herald syndicated columnist and a member of The Miami Herald team that won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize. A new Oppenheimer Report appears every Sunday and Thursday. Email him at aoppenheimer@herald.com. Read Oppenheimer's new blog on Latin America and immigration.
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Colombia and the FARC

Colombia and the FARC guerrillas have been in the news lately because of the Colombian military's cross-border raid into Ecuador that killed a top guerrilla leader.

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Inspired by a biannual baroque festival and the legacy of missionaries, young people join choirs and take up the violin and Vivaldi in parishes across the country's eastern lowlands.

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Seaweed confirms Monte Verde village in Chile is among oldest in the Americas

Seaweed found at an inland settlement in Chile confirms that the village of Monte Verde is one of the oldest inhabited sites in the Americas and demonstrates that residents had extensive contact with the coastline, 50 miles away.

THE WASHINGTON POST

Mexicans get less aid from migrants

LO DE LUNA, Mexico -- The effects of the subprime mortgage crisis and the downturn in the U.S. economy have cascaded into Mexico, causing a sudden, precipitous drop in the flow of money sent home by Mexican immigrants and highlighting this country's dependence on its wealthier northern neighbor


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