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08/18/2008 01:35 PM |
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08/18/2008 01:35 PM |
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Boeing Delivers Brazilian TAM Airlines' First 777-300ER |
EVERETT, Wash., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The first of eight Boeing TAM is the first Latin American airline to operate the 777-300ER, the world's largest, long-range, twin-engine jetliner, powered by General Electric's GE-90 Series engines. The
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08/18/2008 01:33 PM |
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'Hitmen' kill 13 at party in Mexico |
Suspected drug hit men opened fire on a family gathering at a tourist town in northern Mexico killing 13 people including a baby over the weekend, it emerged today. The masked hit men sprayed the party with bullets on Saturday as they drove past the
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08/18/2008 01:33 PM |
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IFC Mulls $500 Million Loan For Panama Canal Expansion |
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- The International Finance Corporation is considering a loan of up to $500 million to help finance the expansion of the Panama Canal. In a press release published its Web site Friday, the IFC said the loan to the Panama Canal
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08/18/2008 01:33 PM |
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/ CORRECTION - Sustainable Power Corp. to Acquire 1,000 Acres for 1 Gigawatt Power Plant in Guatemala |
In the news release 'Sustainable Power Corp. (SSTP) to Acquire 1,000 Acres for 1 Gigawatt Power Plant in Guatemala,' issued earlier today, please be advised that the source of the release should be 'Sustainable Power Corp.' rather than 'U.S. Sustainable
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08/18/2008 01:33 PM |
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Cuban dissident quits support group for prisoners |
Miriam Leiva said she will continue to support the 'Ladies In White' but will no longer participate in the group or its decision-making processes, or speak on its behalf. The announcement came amid rumors of a split within the organization between Leiva
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08/18/2008 01:31 PM |
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Latin American Manufacturers Strong This Year and Next |
Focusing on Latin Americas three largest economies"Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, which together are responsible for more than 80% of the regions manufacturing output, the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI sees a strong finish to 2008 and continued growth in
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08/18/2008 01:31 PM |
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Brazil police recover stolen Picasso print |
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian police have recovered a Pablo Picasso print that was stolen with three other valuable artworks from Sao Paulo's Pinacoteca Museum in broad daylight in June. The print, 'Minotaur, Drinker and Women,' was found on Friday
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08/18/2008 01:28 PM |
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Mexican stocks extend losses on U.S. credit fears |
MEXICO CITY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks extended sharp losses on Monday amid new fears that the U.S. government will need to prop up the two largest mortgage finance companies in the United States, Mexico's top trading partner. The IPC stock
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08/18/2008 01:23 PM |
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Mexico 'Has Become a Top 10 Holiday Destination' |
Mexico has become a top 10 tourist destination with holidaymakers from all over the world, according to one expert. Chris Chadd, head of research at Property Frontiers, claimed that Canc?n and Acapulco are destinations which are helping the nation
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08/18/2008 01:21 PM |
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30 missing, feared dead in Fay's wake in Haiti |
At least 23 people were rescued from the river, Guillaume said. No bodies have been recovered from the river, and it was not clear how many people were on the bus, which was traveling from Port-au-Prince to Jeremie on the peninsula's western tip, because
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08/18/2008 01:20 PM |
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Peru expanding role as specialty coffee leader |
LA MERCED, Peru (Reuters) - Coffee production in Peru, the world's largest exporter of organic coffee, is booming as growers focus on quality, develop niche markets and find ways around walls that can block growth. After starting his farm four years ago,
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08/18/2008 01:18 PM |
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Chiles pork industry suffers another dioxin blow |
Chiles Health Ministry have quarantined four more pork factories after Canadian health officials confirmed high levels of the carcinogenic chemical dioxin in their pork meat products.
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08/18/2008 01:18 PM |
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Suzuki to Launch E100 Cars in Brazil and U.S. by 2010 |
Suzuki plans to develop and launch cars that can operate on 100% ethanol in Brazil and the U.S. in about two years. According to Japanese newspaper the Nikkei, as a first step, the company plans to begin selling in Brazil and elsewhere a passenger car
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08/18/2008 01:18 PM |
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Mexican 1st Half Foreign Tourism Income Up 7% To $7.34 Billion - Ministry |
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexico received $7.34 billion from foreign tourists coming into the country in the first half of the year, up 7% from the first six months of 2007, the Tourism Ministry said Monday. Mexico received 11.4 million foreign tourists
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08/18/2008 01:17 PM |
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Research and Markets: Dog Care in Mexico to 2011 Contains Information on Dog Food, Dog Chews & Treats And Dog Toys |
(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) RDATE:18082008 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/cd9104/dog_care_in_mexico) has announced the addition of the 'Dog Care in Mexico to 2011' report to their offering. This
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08/18/2008 01:16 PM |
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US: Venezuela's Russia Fleet Invite Is 'Curious' |
CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP)--The White House said Monday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's invitation to host a Russian fleet was 'curious' and accused him of neglecting his people's problems. 'The Russians and the Venezuelans can engage in whatever
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08/18/2008 01:16 PM |
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Fay heads for Florida after menacing Cuba, Hispaniola |
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08/18/2008 01:15 PM |
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Mexican 1st Half Foreign Tourism Income Up 7% To $7.34 Billion - Ministry |
MEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Mexico received $7.34 billion from foreign tourists coming into the country in the first half of the year, up 7% from the first six months of 2007, the Tourism Ministry said Monday. Mexico received 11.4 million foreign tourists
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08/18/2008 01:14 PM |
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Latin America: Executive Summary |
In each of the 19 Latin American countries surveyed in this analysis, SNL Kagan discerns improving market conditions and a general uptick in multichannel television subscriber counts and revenues. Competition has intensified in most markets with growing
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08/18/2008 01:13 PM |
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Brazilian, U.S. Firms to Service Helos ? ? |
Brazilian-based Sierra Aeronáutica and U.S.-based Texas Aviation Services (TAS), formed a partnership to support Brazilian helicopter clients, unveiling it at LABACE in Brazil. The companies are trying to catch up with the completions and customizing
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08/18/2008 01:12 PM |
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High prices boost NZ-run Uruguay dairy operation |
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08/18/2008 01:11 PM |
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A Brazilian's shrine to bromeliads may one day save the plants |
Elton Leme's garden is to bromeliads what St. Andrews is to golf or what Cooperstown is to baseball: a living shrine. He has discovered more than 300 species of bromeliad, the largest family of flowering plants endemic to the Western Hemisphere -
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08/18/2008 01:11 PM |
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For wealthy Brazilian, money from ore and might from the cosmos |
A geologist by training, Joao Carlos Cavalcanti - who goes by J.C. - applied his knowledge and considerable gumption to discovering huge reserves of iron ore and other minerals in Brazil. Today he pegs his net worth at $1.2 billion, placing him among the
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08/18/2008 01:11 PM |
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Mexico drug war's costs, risks exported to U.S. |
The only hospital within a 280-mile radius to offer state-of-the-art trauma care, Thomason in the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso has become an unwilling treatment center of choice for law enforcement officials and others in the vicinity wounded in
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08/18/2008 01:10 PM |
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Rough diamond import from Venezuela banned |
NEW DELHI: India has banned import of rough diamonds from Venezuela after it pulled out of a UN approved system that ensures that 'blood diamonds' extracted by human rights violations are not traded and used for financing the rebels' wars across the
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08/18/2008 01:09 PM |
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Nicaragua to Mark Literacy Campaign Anniversary |
Managua, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Events marking the 28th anniversary of the Literacy Campaign conducted by the Sandinista Revolution in 1980 began Monday in Nicaragua. According to Somoto mayor Marco Ariel Rivas twelve departments will be declared
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08/18/2008 01:08 PM |
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Uruguayan President on World Tour |
Montevideo, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez will tour Israel, Switzerland and South Korea from August 22nd to September 2 to explore trade and economic accords. The cabinet web page says the tour starts Friday 22nd in Israel,
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08/18/2008 01:08 PM |
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Suzuki to launch 100 pct ethanol cars in U.S., Brazil |
GAVE is a government programme to support the implementation of the European Biofuels Guideline. This guideline aims to promote the use of biofuels for transport and mobility
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08/18/2008 01:08 PM |
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Tropical storm Fay lashes Cuba with winds, rain |
Fay, which is about 250 kilometres south-southeast of Key West, has been pounding central Cuba. 'The weather is expected to get really bad as tropical storm Fay is expected to hit the Florida Keys later this evening,' CNN's Sandra Endo told CTV's Canada
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08/18/2008 01:07 PM |
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US: Venezuela's Russia Fleet Invite Is 'Curious' |
CRAWFORD, Texas 'You would think that President Chavez would concentrate more on the problems that the people of Venezuela Chavez said during his weekly radio program on Sunday that Russian President Dimitri Medvedev 'I told the president (Medvedev), 'If
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