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Brazil's police accused of routinely killing suspects
Dec. 9, 2009
Americas - Brazil
Police in Brazil's two biggest cities, Sao
Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, routinely commit unlawful executions, Human
Rights Watch has alleged.
Cartels may target U.S. firms October 6, 2009
Americas - Mexico American
interests could become targets of Mexico's drug cartels as Washington
deepens its involvement in the war against drugs south of the border,
according to a leading global intelligence and security corporation.
Gunmen throw grenades in Acapulco, 3 police killed
June 9, 2009
Americas - Mexico
Gunmen launched grenades and opened fire in
near simultaneous attacks on two police stations in Acapulco Monday, killing
three officers in violence that broke out less than 48 hours after a gun
battle in the resort left 17 dead. 
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Over 200
Americans killed in Mexico since '04
February 9, 2009
Americas - Mexico
More than 200
American citizens have been killed since 2004 in Mexico's escalating wave of
violence, amounting to the highest number of unnatural deaths in any foreign
country outside military combat zones, according to the U.S. State
Department.
Three Bodies Found Decapitated in Tijuana
Jan.9,
2009
Americas - Mexico
Three decapitated men were found early Friday
next to a tomb in the northern Mexican city of Tijuana, after an
anonymous comment about the location of the bodies was post on a news
website.
Thank You, Mr. President
Jan.8,
2009
Right Side News - Kennesaw,GA, USA
Because without safety, a country - just like a family, just like a
patient in a hospital - is as good as dead. Today, over 300-million
Americans can thank ...
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200901083244/editorial/thank-you-mr.-president.html
Argentina's Deadly Yellow Fever Outbreak Spurs Mass Vaccination
Jan.6,
2009
Americas - Argentina Argentina is
mass-vaccinating people against yellow fever amid concern its first deadly
outbreak of the disease in 42 years may spread from jungle areas to cities.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=aKbfIEUciQ9M
Business aviation industry challenges proposed TSA rules
About 100 private plane owners are expected to gather at the Westchester
County Airport in New York today as the Department of Homeland Security
opens a series of public meetings on new rules requiring stepped-up security
measures for general aviation. About 10,000 aircraft would be affected by
the rules, which include limitations on cargo and fingerprint checks for
pilots. "Businesses have airplanes in order to transport what they produce,
sometimes because it's too difficult or impossible to carry onto an
airliner," says Ed Bolen, president of the National Business Aviation
Association. "To suggest that an airplane weighing 12,500 pounds is similar
to a commercial transport airplane doesn't hold water."
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/business/06private.html?_r=1
Americas - Haiti Mar.9,
2007
Haiti kidnap wave accompanied by epidemic of rape
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): -
Haiti's violent gangs are increasingly using rape to terrorize hostages and
other victims, government officials and health workers say.
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Americas - Mexico
Mar.2,
2007
Police arrest two suspects in sexual assault of U.S. tourist
Veracruz, Mexico: Police on Thursday
arrested two men accused of raping a 23-year-old tourist from Tacoma,
Washington, in the city of Veracruz
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Americas - Venezuela
Venezuela to seize foreign oil projects
Feb. 27, 2007
CARACAS,
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez ordered by
decree on Monday the takeover of oil projects run by foreign oil companies
in Venezuela's Orinoco River region.
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Americas - Bolivia
Bolivian troops seize key smelter
Feb. 12, 2007
The Bolivian government has seized
control of the country's largest, privately-run tin smelter complex.
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Americas - Venezuela
Venezuela to nationalize power company
Feb. 9, 2007
CARACAS,
Venezuela President
Hugo Chavez's government clinched the nationalization of Venezuela's largest
private electric company Thursday, signing an agreement to buy a controlling
stake in Electricidad de Caracas from its U.S.-based owner, AES Corp., for
$739 million.
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Americas - Honduras
Honduras Restarts Dengue Fever Fight
Feb. 6, 2007
Tegucigalpa, Operations for cleaning
and fumigation to prevent dengue fever were restarted in Honduras Monday,
beginning with the city of San Pedro Sula (175 miles north of the capital)
local authorities informed.
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Americas - Haiti
American missionary kidnapped in Haiti
Feb. 6,2007
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Armed kidnappers seized an American missionary as he
left his church near Haiti's capital and have demanded a ransom for his
release, U.N. police said Monday.
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Americas - Guatemala
100 excavated bodies buried in mudslide
1/30/07
PANABAJ, Guatemala - Many were buried
while they slept, covered when a mountainside gave way under heavy rain. The
president told their families the bodies would never be recovered.
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Americas -
Jamaica
Jamaica boosts Montego Bay security after killings
1/26/07
KINGSTON, Jamaica
(Reuters): Jamaican police cordoned off parts of Montego Bay on Thursday and
called up extra officers while troops went on alert after a series of
murders rattled the Caribbean country's premier tourist city.
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Americas -
Colombia, Venezuela
1/25/07
Italian Citizen Kidnapped Along Venezuela-Colombia Border
1/25/07
Kidnappings have plagued Venezuela's
1,400-mile with Colombia, where violence has been linked to guerrilla and
paramilitary groups who use ransom money to fund illegal activities.
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