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Cuba, Brazil trade ideas, goods
February 15, 2008Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Cuba in mid-January. He and his ministers signed agreements with their Cuban counterparts relating to credit, technical exchanges, trade and energy. On Jan. 15 Lula spent almost three...
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Writers win some after 14-week strike
February 15, 2008Against enormous odds and with television and film writers united behind them, leaders of the Writers Guild of America have negotiated a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers that amounts to a...
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World notes: Feb. 16, 2008
February 15, 2008Iraq: Food shortages loom Iraq’s government recently announced that a 12-year-old food rationing system set up in response to the U.S.-led embargo against the Saddam Hussein regime will end by next June. UN officials had praised...
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Food shortages threaten Venezuelas socialist project
February 13, 2008Venezuela’s government has moved into high gear as it attempts to shore up food availability. Shortages have mounted even though food production has increased over the past three years and food purchases are subsidized through 14,000...
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U.S. backs Bolivian separatists
February 13, 2008“My immediate thought was ‘Oh my God! Somebody from the U.S. Embassy just asked me to basically spy for the U.S. Embassy.’” John van Schaick, a Fulbright scholar recently arrived in Bolivia, was reacting to diplomat...
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