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Venezuelan Banker and Miami Brokerage Workers Are Accused of Fraud
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Venezuelan opposition airs conspiracy recordings against Maduro from his own party
The Venezuelan opposition has released an audio recording that it said contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. Opposition lawmaker Ismael García said the recording captures a phone conversation between state TV personality Mario Silva, a staunch government ally, and a Cuban identified as Lieutenant Colonel Aramis ...
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Spanish couple kidnapped in Colombia
Two Spanish tourists have been kidnapped in Colombia while driving in La Guajira, near the Venezuelan border. The couple disappeared on Friday, but Spanish authorities only confirmed the kidnapping on Tuesday. The kidnappers contacted the hostages' family and identified themselves as members of the left-wing rebels Farc, Colombian authorities say. The group, which last year vowed to stop ...
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Venezuela Black and Blue
The left eye of Julio Borges, a deputy in the Venezuelan National Assembly from the opposition party, Primero Justicia, is the best symbol of the way things are going in Venezuelan politics. When I interviewed him two weeks ago, he had a deep purple stripe under his eye, as if he were an athlete wearing a streak of eye black to avoid being dazzled by the sun. But his stripe was the result of a ...
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Solvista hits gold-copper whopper in Colombia
's view of its Caramanta project in Colombia, few would argue it was a featherweight copper-gold intercept. Solvista's shareprice took off Tuesday - up 40 percent at presstime - after it reported 457 metres @ 1.01 g/t gold and 0.21 percent copper. Solvista called this its longest and most continuously mineralized intercept yet drilled at Caramanta, in Colombia's Antioquia ...
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Oil prices fall after four days of gain
OIL prices have fallen for the first time in five days on the eve of Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's highly anticipated testimony to Congress on the outlook for the US ...
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Venezuela TV host goes off air after audio scandal
Opposition lawmaker Ismael Garcia, center, speaks during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2013. Venezuela's opposition has released an audio recording that it says contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. They have accused Cuban leaders of wielding influence behind the scenes in guiding ...
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Colombia Two Spanish Tourists Kidnapped
A beach in La Guajira in northern Colombia. Photo from Flickr In reports that were released today, it has been revealed that two Spanish tourists were kidnapped in northern Colombia on Friday. Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the announcement today of the kidnapping of ngel Snchez Fernndez, 49, and Concepcin Marlaska Sedano, 43, in the northeast department of La Guajira. Spanish ...
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Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies opens registration for Tourism Fair of the Americas
The Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies (ABAV) has opened registration for visitors who wish to participate in the 41st edition of ABAV - Tourism Fair of the Americas, which will be held from September 4 to 8 at the Anhembi Exhibit Hall (SP). Those who wish to participate should log on to the event website and click Online Registration on the right side of the home page. After reading and ...
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Prehistoric crocodiles ruled the roost in South America study finds
Modern alligators and crocodiles rarely share the same environments but that was not true of their prehistoric ancestors in South America, paleontologists say. From 9 million to 5 million years ago the deltas of the Amazonas and the Urumaco, a river on the Gulf of Venezuela that no longer exists, boasted an unparalleled abundance of extremely diverse, highly specialized species of crocodile, ...
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