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Four-car crash impacts traffic at SE Cesar Chavez and Stark
PORTLAND, Ore. - A four-car crash shut down traffic at a southeast Portland intersection Wednesday morning. The crash happened just after 7 a.m. ...
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With even toilet paper scarce Venezuelan president warms to business
By Eyanir Chinea CARACAS | Wed May 22, 2013 10:10am EDT CARACAS May 22 (Reuters) - A Venezuelan supermarket puts a stack of toilet paper on its shop floor, and desperate consumers snatch it up within five minutes. A woman's voice over the loudspeaker reminds shoppers each person can only buy four packages. Few seemed convinced by the government's promise just days earlier that ...
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Is South America’s latest strongman a woman
LIMA, Peru - High heels and mascara may be the last things that spring to mind when talking about Latin America’s pantheon of authoritarian strongmen. Yet for her opponents, the latest controversial move of Argentina’s immaculately made-up president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has cemented her place in the region’s ...
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It’s back to basics for Venezuela
A customer leaves a private supermarket with her purchases, including toilet paper, in Caracas, Venezuela. First milk, butter and coffee ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities - toilet ...
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Venezuela is running out of toilet paper
Supermarket staff work next to partially empty shelves of toilet paper in Caracas, May 16, 2013. Supplies of food and other basic products have been patchy in recent months, with long queues forming at supermarkets and rushes occurring when there is news of a new stock ...
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Uruguay joins the women’s presidential club Mujica flies to China and Astori to Colombia
For several days beginning Wednesday Uruguay, as its neighbours, Brazil and Argentina will be ruled by a woman. Lucia Topolansky, Fist Lady but also Senator and third in the succession line will become interim president since her husband is off on an official trip to China and Europe, and Vice-president Danilo Astori will be attending the Alliance of the Pacific summit in ...
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