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1 . U.S. Student Became Mexican Drug KingpinAmericas - International Herald Tribune / Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:07:31 GMTEdgar Valdez Villarreal is the only United States citizen known to have moved so high in the cartels’ structure.
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2 . World Briefing | The Americas: Cuba: Communist Economic Model Loses a Stalwart DefenderAmericas - International Herald Tribune / Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:10:14 GMTFidel Castro said Cuba’s economic model no longer worked, an American journalist reported Wednesday.
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3 . World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Reporters Fall Victim to Crackdown on Drug TraffickingAmericas - International Herald Tribune / Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:10:14 GMTMore than 30 journalists have been killed or have disappeared in the nearly four years since Mexico began a bloody crackdown on drug trafficking organizations.
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4 . Dozens Missing as Guatemala Landslides Kill 22Americas - International Herald Tribune / Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:17:30 GMTA massive landslide buried a crowd trying to dig out a bus from deep mud, killing at least 22 people, with dozens more feared dead.
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5 . U.S. Student Became Mexican Drug KingpinNYT > Americas / Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:07:31 GMTEdgar Valdez Villarreal is the only United States citizen known to have moved so high in the cartels’ structure.
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6 . World Briefing | The Americas: Cuba: Communist Economic Model Loses a Stalwart DefenderNYT > Americas / Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:10:14 GMTFidel Castro said Cuba’s economic model no longer worked, an American journalist reported Wednesday.
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7 . World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Reporters Fall Victim to Crackdown on Drug TraffickingNYT > Americas / Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:10:14 GMTMore than 30 journalists have been killed or have disappeared in the nearly four years since Mexico began a bloody crackdown on drug trafficking organizations.
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8 . Dozens Missing as Guatemala Landslides Kill 22NYT > Americas / Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:17:30 GMTA massive landslide buried a crowd trying to dig out a bus from deep mud, killing at least 22 people, with dozens more feared dead.
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9 . Obama, Clinton appear split over comparisons of Mexican, Colombian drug problems washingtonpost.com - North America / Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:14:01 EDT
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sees similarities between the drug violence now afflicting Mexico and Colombia's narco-war of the 1980s. President Obama, not so much.
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10 . Wracked by drug violence, Mexico wary of Calif. vote on legalizing marijuana washingtonpost.com - North America / Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:13:00 EDT
TIJUANA, MEXICO - To embattled authorities here, where heavily armed soldiers patrol the streets and more than 500 people have been killed this year, marijuana is a poisonous weed that enriches death-dealing cartel bosses who earn huge profits smuggling the product north.
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11 . Secretary of State Clinton compares Mexico's drug violence to Colombia's washingtonpost.com - North America / Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:31:02 EDT
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the surging drug violence in Mexico now resembles war-torn Colombia a generation ago, with criminal cartels looking like "insurgencies" battling for control of territory.
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12 . Drug lord 'La Barbie' takes spotlight in Mexico City washingtonpost.com - North America / Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:48:00 EDT
MEXICO CITY - A ritual is performed when drug lords are arrested here. They are paraded before the news cameras, often with black eyes and fresh bruises, then stand shackled and grimacing between a pair of masked police.
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13 . Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable washingtonpost.com - South America / Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:57:00 EDT
SAN MARTIN DE SAMIRIA, PERU - To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial - from the ubiquitous fruit palms to the cry of howler monkeys, from the air thick with mosquitoes to the unruly tangle of jungle vines.
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14 . A veteran rock-and-roll manager returns - in South America washingtonpost.com - South America / Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:07:00 EDT
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA - He was once one of London's best-known '60s-era rogues, dressed flamboyantly, spinning around town in a Mini Cooper and using a bodyguard known as "the butcher" to threaten his rivals.
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16 . Stepped-up efforts by U.S., Mexico fail to stem flow of drug money south washingtonpost.com - South America / Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:12:01 EDT
LAREDO, TEX. - Stashing cash in spare tires, engine transmissions and truckloads of baby diapers, couriers for Mexican drug cartels are moving tens of billions of dollars in profits south across the border each year, a river of dirty money that has overwhelmed U.S. and Mexican customs agents.
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17 . RNC's Steele visits U.S. territories, prompting talk of a reelection bid washingtonpost.com - Central America / Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:07:01 EDT
For a man hoping to lead his party to major congressional victories in November, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele has packed his travel schedule with some unusual destinations in recent weeks: Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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18 . Guatemala mudslides kill at least 38; 2 buses hit washingtonpost.com - Central America / Sun, 05 Sep 2010 19:31:26 EDT
NAHUALA, Guatemala -- Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala - some of them rescuers trying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.
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19 . Hurricane Earl could force U.S. evacuations before Labor Day washingtonpost.com - Central America / Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:46:01 EDT
As Hurricane Earl made its way toward the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency warned people along the coast to prepare for possible evacuation orders from state and local governments.
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20 . Despite 'all that money,' more than 1 million Haitians remain displaced by January earthquake washingtonpost.com - Central America / Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Immacula Pierre had a question. Why, she wanted to know, are she and 50,000 other homeless Haitians still living in a squalid tent city on the Champ de Mars, an esplanade in the heart of Port-au-Prince just across the street from the destroyed National Palace.
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