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<b>venezuela Seizes 2 Tons Of Cocaine Hidden At Port</b> Print E-mail
Sunday, 14 March 2010
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS -- A Venezuelan police official says security forces have seized two tons of cocaine that was intended to be smuggled to the Netherlands. Federal Police Chief Wilmer F...
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Venezuela Seizes 2 Tons Of Cocaine Hidden At Port Print E-mail
Sunday, 14 March 2010
CARACAS (AP) - A Venezuelan police official says security forces have seized two tons of cocaine that was intended to be smuggled to the Netherlands. Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores Trosel says the...
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Venezuela Seizes 2 Tons Of Cocaine Hidden At Port Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
CARACAS — A Venezuelan police official says security forces have seized two tons of cocaine that was intended to be smuggled to the Netherlands. Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores Trosel sa...
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Venezuela Seizes 2 Tons Of Cocaine Hidden At Port Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
CARACAS -- A Venezuelan police official says security forces have seized two tons of cocaine that was intended to be smuggled to the Netherlands.Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores Trosel says the dru...
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Venezuela Seizes 2 Tons Of Cocaine Hidden At Port Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS -- A Venezuelan police official says security forces have seized two tons of cocaine that was intended to be smuggled to the Netherlands. Federal Police Chief Wilmer F...
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Venezuela Seizes 2 Tons Of Cocaine Hidden At Port Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
CARACAS (AP) -- A Venezuelan police official says security forces have seized two tons of cocaine that was intended to be smuggled to the Netherlands.
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Arrests Show Eta Roots In Venezuela Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
CARACAS, Venezuela — The shadowy underworld of Basque exiles in this city is coming under sharp scrutiny after recent arrests in Europe and an indictment this month from one of Spain’s top...
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Cocaine Found In Colombia Artwork Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Police in Colombia say they have found 16kg (35lb) of cocaine inside replicas of three sculptures by artist Fernando Botero being shipped to Spain.The cocaine had been mixed into the clay of the sculp...
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China Delivers Venezuela Jets For Anti-drugs Fight Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela on Saturday tested six training and light attack jets bought from China for defence and anti-drugs flights in a deal that dodges an embargo banning sales of U.S. weapons ...
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Prominent Caribbean Hindu community leader dead Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Pundit Jankie Persad Sharma, a pioneer of the Hindu religion and culture in Trinidad and Tobago and Canada, has died. He had begun the practice of celebrating Diwali on the Caribbean island, apart from constructing several temples, conducting weddings and organising trips to India for the diaspora.
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China To Bid For Us High-speed Rail Projects; Building Lines In Venezuela, Turkey Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
BEIJING - China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a government official said Saturday. China ...
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Us Military Have No Evidence Of Venezuela, Farc And Eta Links Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
The chief of the US military's Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser, said during a hearing before the US Senate that he had no evidence of links between Venezuela, the Revolutionary Armed For...
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Colombia’s Congressional Election Sunday, A Test For May’s Presidential Vote Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Colombian congressional elections this weekend may signal how much backing former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos will have as he seeks to capitalize on the success of Alvaro Uribe’s “...
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A Trip To Guyana Inspired Mark Hix's Sensational Rum-based Menu Print E-mail
Friday, 12 March 2010
This week I'm writing about a recent break that I took to a wonderful rum distillery in Guyana. What with my tequila mission to Mexico last year, as well as quite a few wine trips abroad, it's true th...
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Chavez Thanks Sean Penn For Slamming His Critics Print E-mail
Friday, 12 March 2010
Sean Penn presents the award for best actress during the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) (AP) Venezuelan President Hugo ...
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Venezuela Favors Unchanged Output At Opec Meeting Print E-mail
Friday, 12 March 2010
(AP) — CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela says it will favor keeping oil production quotas unchanged at an OPEC meeting next week. Venezuelan oil minister Rafael Ramirez told reporters that it wou...
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Rising Oil Prices Will Get Angola Growing Again Print E-mail
Friday, 12 March 2010
Luanda: Angola, once one of the world's fastest-growing economies, is expected to expand between 6.5 and 7.5 per cent in 2010 due to higher oil prices from around zero last year, the World Bank said F...
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Hugo Chavez Thanks Sean Penn For Support During Week Of Bad Press Print E-mail
Friday, 12 March 2010
Leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez this week publicly thanked his friend, Hollywood actor Sean Penn, for railing against Chavez's U.S. media critics,
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Spain Seeks To Defuse Tension With Venezuela Over Eta Link - Summary Print E-mail
Friday, 12 March 2010
Madrid - Portuguese police have detained a suspected member of the militant Basque separatist group ETA who was trying to fly to Venezuela from Lisbon, police and immigration sources said Friday. The ...
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Unconscionable Airfares Prompt Guyana Government To Consider Re-entering Airline Business Print E-mail
Friday, 12 March 2010
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Deeply concerned about the “unconscionable monopoly” on airfare increases, particularly by Caribbean Airlines on Guyana, the government may revert to a positio...
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