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edward
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Wed May 17, 2006 3:18 pm |
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South of the border news and comment.
Mexico ..Central America..South America...
Let us start here..
The treaty of Guadalupe between the United States and Mexico.
http://www.azteca.net/aztec/guadhida.html
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| ViVi
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Great thread ed. Good idea. So, when's Hugo gonna make an appearance?
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 When will Hugo show up to the party..
It has just began... 
BOGOTA, Colombia - One of the world's most hunted drug traffickers — accused of shipping more than 70 tons of cocaine to the United States — has been arrested in Brazil as part of an international crackdown, officials said Wednesday.
Colombian-born Pablo Rayo Montano, who had been on the run for a decade, was captured Tuesday in Sao Paulo as part of an operation coordinated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and involving anti-drug police in eight other countries.
More than three dozen others were arrested during simultaneous raids in the United States and Latin America, U.S. and Colombian anti-drug officials said. Authorities also seized control of three islands off the coast of Panama, a trove of artwork, real estate holdings, yachts and millions in cash.
Hugo is busy trying to rig the Mexican elections with his famous vote booth software.. :} and trying to get Cindy to share her tent at the Bush ranch campout..:}
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060518/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_drug_arrest_2
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - Less than a year ago, a top Sao Paulo law enforcement officer boasted that police had all but destroyed one of Brazil's most notorious crime groups.
"The PCC's days are numbered," Godofredo Bittencourt, head of the Sao Paulo police's organized crime unit, said in July after announcing the arrest of 11 members of the group widely known by those initials.
But this week, the PCC proved him deadly wrong, unleashing an unprecedented crime wave that has left scores dead, among them 40 police officers.
Scattered violence broke out again around Brazil's largest city early Wednesday, with reports that police killed at least seven more suspected criminals in addition to the 133 people already slain in violence that began Friday night.
Officials did not immediately confirm the new deaths.
From inside Sao Paulo state penitentiaries, the PCC used cell phones to order its "soldiers" to attack bars, banks and police stations with machine guns, grenades and molotov cocktails and set buses on fire. The gang also orchestrated uprisings in more than 70 prisons across the state.
The violence came in response to the transfer of eight imprisoned PCC leaders to a high security facility in an attempt to sever their ties to gang members on the outside. But the attacks were also the PCC's way of "baring its claws to intimidate authorities and society," said Guaracy Mingardi, a former Sao Paulo police inspector and current U.N. adviser on crime.
"Using guerrilla tactics, the PCC periodically strikes out to let everyone know they are alive and well and that they are still a force to be reckoned with," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_organized_crime;_ylt=An03U2hu910jJUaiut4pVsi4IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
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MEXICO CITY - Police enraged by the kidnapping of six officers club unarmed detainees. A bloody battle between steelworkers and police leaves two miners dead. Drug lords post the heads of decapitated police on a fence to show who's in charge.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_vote_of_fear;_ylt=AluKjbexU02OnjCRHXI37La4IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine beauty queen who disrupted a presidential summit in Vienna with a bikini-clad protest against wood pulp processing plants received an enthusiastic welcome home as she joined a new demonstration Wednesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060518/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_bikini_protester;_ylt=Am2QxXCpyS2S7CirSybZKp64IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
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SAO PAULO, Brazil - The body count grew in South America's largest city Wednesday as police — who lost 41 comrades in gang attacks — killed 22 more suspected criminals. Authorities said little about the latest deaths, generating criticism from rights groups.
Police did not identify any of those they killed, say where they were killed or in what circumstances, Sao Paulo's leading newspapers reported Wednesday.
Human rights activists said they feared innocent people may have been hurt in the strikes by police enraged by a notorious gang's attacks on officers on the streets, at their stations, in their homes and at afterwork hangouts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060518/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_violence
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HAVANA - Cuban President Fidel Castro denounced a Forbes magazine report naming him one of the world's wealthiest rulers, putting in a special television appearance on Monday to rebut the story he called "rubbish."
In its May 5 article, "Fortunes Of Kings, Queens And Dictators," Forbes put Castro in 7th place in a group of 10 world leaders with "lofty positions and vast fortunes." The magazine estimated Castro's personal wealth to be $900 million — nearly double that of the $500 million of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and just under Prince Albert II of Monaco's estimated $1 billion.
The article also referred to rumors of Castro having "large stashes in Swiss bank accounts."
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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - Mexicans dismiss U.S. plans to send National Guard troops to the border as a futile effort that will only fuel the booming drug- and migrant-smuggling industry.
And with heavily armed Mexican soldiers in this violent border city, some worry the U.S. troop buildup could spark confrontations in an area where it is often difficult to tell where Mexico ends and the United States begins.
Gilberto Areola, who lives about 20 feet from the border in the Mexican city of Nogales, near Arizona, said he will feel uneasy with soldiers patrolling the other side.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_us_immigration;_ylt=AiTIAyScmw9J5ekCHtE_jRi4IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
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Thu May 18, 2006 5:56 pm |
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PUNTO FIJO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has for years predicted that a foreign army would attack the South American nation to snatch its vast oil reserves. A simulation conducted this week showed how it might happen.
A naval landing craft made landfall on the shores of Western Falcon state carrying troops and over a dozen camouflaged tanks. The "invading" army then took over the massive Paraguana Refining Complex, a key asset of the world's No. 5 crude exporter.
The "occupation" is part of a military exercise to train troops and communities to repel a foreign invader.
The Chavez government said it is preparing citizens to fight a guerrilla war to repel a possible Iraq-style invasion by U.S. troops. The Bush administration insists the invasion paranoia is nothing more than leftist saber-rattling, but for Chavez supporters the threat is real.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060518/wl_nm/venezuela_invasion_usa_dc_1
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| Linny1125
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So, could the unrest in Central and South America have anything to do with why Bush is sending 10,000 National Guard to the border? duh.
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Jimmy Carter and Hugo Chavez "Friends to our end"
Jimmy Carter: The Worst Ex-President in History
By Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor
During his four years in the White House, he presided over the worst economic downturn since World War II, allowed a bunch of thugs to seize our embassy and our citizens, and supported Philippine dictator Fernando Marcos, Pakistani General Zia al Huq, Saudi King Faud and many other dictators. But Jimmy Carter was a much better president than he is an ex-president.
http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=letters/200408310659
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CARACAS, Venezuela - The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela said Thursday that Colombian guerrillas have an "active presence" in the country and accused President Hugo Chavez of being uncooperative in counterterrorism efforts.
Ambassador William Brownfield said the United States is concerned about the presence in Venezuela of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and the National Liberation Army, or ELN, both of which the U.S. considers terrorist organizations.
"We have requested specific collaboration from the Venezuelan government over 100 times in the last two years, mainly regarding immigration and movements of specific people in Venezuelan territory and the truth is we haven't received any answers," Brownfield told Venezuelan reporters.
"Hopefully, the two governments can talk and try to resolve these problems," he said.
 Not if Hugos girlfriend has anything to say about it.. 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060526/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_us_colombia_1
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These signs were nailed to telephone poles around town on may 1 during the big protest/march by illegal aliens from Mexico...
Now you may think this sign was in South America or Mexico..but no...
These signs were in San Jose California..
Thats right silicon valley..
There real agenda is obvious..  
I believe The Political far left in Mexico put the protest in place.
Hugo Chavez is in support of far left polititions in Mexico, and has vowed to see them elected to office...
This is a peaceful invasion of our country...It is passive/aggressive behavior...
Do not be confused ..We are under attack..
The United States of America.
OUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION ARE UNDER ATTACK !!
Citizens of another country have No Right to assemble under our constitution..
Why is it that the Mexican people have not gone into civil war over the years to make there goverment clean and free of corruption and supply jobs to its population?
Mexico has very little infrastructure..
It could be built by its own population..
Some people think Mexico is a poor nation..That is a misconception.
Mexico is a very rich country...It cheats its own people out of a good life.
They have kept much of its population ignorant for a reason...
These people tend to follow who ever steps up to lead them,even if that means right off a cliff...
This sign was nailed up by such a person..
There is another agenda..These people are being sent here on purpose.
I think..
BUSH and many other polititions are helping them invade.
Dont believe it..Ask yourself this ..How did they organize a protest of 11 million right under your nose and you never heard much about it?
Bush and friends have an agenda also  Born and raised American citizens!
I have spent many years traveling through Mexico..
Never to tourist locations.
I know what I am saying is correct because of that experience.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia - Leftist President Evo Morales said Tuesday the U.S. government had organized groups to kill him and said he believed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's assertion that Washington was preparing to overthrow his administration.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060531/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/bolivia_us;_ylt=Ag6NmoP_LtVPso0L3IlNLJW4IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela is buying helicopters, boats and military transport planes in defense deals worth about $2.7 billion, modernizing its military as tensions grow between leftist President Hugo Chavez and the United States.
Flush with oil profits but blocked from buying U.S. arms, Chavez is increasingly looking to countries like Russia and Spain as suppliers.
A cargo ship carrying 30,000 Russian-made Kalashnikov assault rifles is headed to Venezuela with the first shipment of an order totaling 100,000 guns to arrive by year's end. The military is looking to buy more submarines, and Chavez is planning an even bigger deal for Russian fighter jets.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060530/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_defense_deals;_ylt=AkrxnWZHCO9fpc08XH7kg8i4IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
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LA PAZ, Bolivia - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told Bolivian forces to be on guard against conspirators, suggesting again that President Bush is plotting against the country's left-leaning government.
Chavez's comments during his weekly radio and television program Sunday were his latest response to Bush's remarks last week that he was "concerned about the erosion of democracy" in Bolivia and Venezuela.
"When the U.S. president said a few days ago that he was worried because democracy is eroding in Bolivia it's because, you can be sure, he has a plan against Bolivia," Chavez said without elaborating. He urged "his brothers, the Bolivian soldiers," not to be caught off guard.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060529/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/bolivia_venezuela_us;_ylt=Aul6jXIk.EjplRTQb9GsnP64IxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
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Peruvian Presidential candidate Ollanta Humala, a nationalist former army officer looks sad during a news conference in his headquarters in Lima Peru on Thursday, June 1, 2006. Alan Garcia, of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, or APRA, leads Humala , who has been hurt by Venezuelan leftist leader Hugo Chavez's enthusiastic endorsements of his candidacy, which has scared many Peruvians, fearful that if he wins Sunday's runoff, the country will fall under Chavez's influence. The poster behind him he appears with his wife Nadine Heredia.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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[img]Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks to delegates of the141st Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, June 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch) [/img]
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks to delegates of the141st Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, June 1, 2006.
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London: He has been called a terrorist by Washington and has described British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a ``pawn of imperialism''. His opponents in Venezuela have accused him of stifling debate and ruling like a dictator. But on Sunday, on a sunny afternoon in London, the only cries that greeted President Hugo Chavez, the scourge of the United States, were of solidarity and affection.
The Camden centre in north London is usually home to trade fairs, conferences and school exams, but on Sunday it reverberated to scenes more reminiscent of a Latin American political rally.
``We love you,'' shouted a woman at the 800-strong gathering, which Mr. Chavez was invited to attend by London's Mayor Ken Livingstone. ``We love you very much,'' responded the President. And then continued to address the audience in the English he had learned as a schoolboy more than 40 years ago. But his message soon became more serious and — speaking for more than an hour without notes — he managed to compliment women, the Irish, mathematicians, Christians, mothers and even his ``amigo'' Ken.
http://www.thehindu.com/2006/05/16/stories/2006051606161400.htm
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Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s socialist president, remembers “with great affection” the day he went to see Queen Elizabeth II in 2001. “There’s something I’ll never forget. When I got out of the car at the entrance to the palace, I spotted a coin lying on the ground and picked it up, and saw it had her face on one side. So I took the coin,” he says. Once inside, he presented the Queen with his official gift, a glass model of waterfalls and forests in Venezuela and a multi-coloured bird. Then he took out the coin and handed it to her. “She kept it,’’ he laughs, as he recounts the story in an interview with The Guardian this week, sitting beneath a portrait of 19th-century South American would-be liberator, Simon Bolivar -- he ordered his staff to put up the picture -- in his suite at London’s Savoy hotel.
Chávez is in Britain at the invitation of London mayor Ken Livingstone and has been greeted rapturously by his supporters -- from the Latin American diaspora to the British left, excited about a 21st-century success story. But his reception in most of the British media has been hostile, from wild accusations that he supports terrorism to suggestions that he is a despot who has done nothing to reduce poverty in spite of his claims.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=272125&area=/insight/insight__international/
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Here is how Hugo Chavez took power in Venezuela....
Click on the link for a BBC report on Venezuela
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=c47b39c3fd265556cad88b4b48c987d1.8ff70a5d3b537c2a266cd4b360f55503&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Ffavorites%3Fei%3DUTF-8&vback=favorites
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LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (Reuters) -- The chaos of armed conflict rattled Venezuela's run-down harbor area this week as troops and residents practiced resisting a potential invasion that President Hugo Chavez says the White House has planned.
Mock foreign aggressors in Engesa tanks trundled past wrecked houses near the Caribbean coast, only to be greeted by an ambush of "resistance" fighters unleashing a barrage of gunfire and explosions that echoed through the neighborhood.
Soldiers playing rebels armed with rifles and a rocket launcher dodged between wrecked houses as the invaders carpeted the muddy ground with blank shell casings. Tanks -- some flying skull and cross bones flags -- filled the air with booming cannon fire.
Ten minutes later the simulated assault was over.
"We're creating a doctrine so there is better preparation between the troops and the people in case of an invasion or whatever else," said Marine Lt. Jose Pinto, wearing a Chicago Bulls basketball team T-shirt and a grenade on his belt.
Chavez has ordered his armed forces and civilian reservists to prepare for a guerrilla war against U.S. forces which he says are seeking to control Venezuela's vast oil reserves.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/09/venezuela.reut/index.html
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Russian Arms Export Agency Talks Business With Venezuelan Navy
Created: 25.08.2005 15:07 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 10:57 MSK
MosNews
On Wednesday, Aug 24, Sergei Ladygin, a regional department head at Rosoboronexport, Russia’s state arms export agency, met with Vice-Admiral Armando Laguna, General Commander of Venezuela’s Navy to discuss the prospects for future cooperation and deliveries of Russian arms, the Itar-Tass agency reported.
Rosoboronexport displayed over 100 samples of naval equipment and armaments at the Exponaval 2005 international arms show in Caracas.
http://www.mosnews.com/money/2005/08/25/armsvenezuela.shtml
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