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Yahoo! News: World - Latin America
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Venezuela asks for details of charges in ETA case
(AP)
 AP - Venezuela has asked authorities in Spain to detail their accusations against an alleged ETA operative accused of helping the Basque separatist group arrange explosives training with Colombian rebels in Venezuela.
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A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba
(AP)
 AP - It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a slave-carrying schooner slipping into Havana's harbor flying two flags — those of the United States and Cuba.
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USGS seismologist warns of more Chile aftershocks
(AP)
 AP - A U.S. seismologist says Chileans will continue to feel aftershocks from last month's megaquake for a year or longer.
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Donors plan to put up $3.8 billion for Haiti rebuilding
(Reuters)
 Reuters - International donors are aiming to provide $3.8 billion over 18 months to help Haiti rebuild after its January 12 earthquake, according to officials and experts preparing a high-level donors conference.
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Chileans' quake knowledge saved thousands of lives
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Chileans' knowledge of earthquakes, combined with the abnormally long time it took for the February 27 quake to reach its crescendo, saved thousands of lives, a leading geophysicist said on Thursday.
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Boycott looms for Guyana's 1st elections since '94
(AP)
AP - Opposition leaders in this South American country threatened Thursday to boycott the first municipal elections in 16 years over a plan to give a government-dominated commission control over local affairs.
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FBI, police raid gang in Texas after Mexico murders
(AFP)
 AFP - FBI agents and police swooped Thursday on suspected members of a gang thought to be involved in the slaying of three people linked to the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, an official said.
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Canadians rescued from grounded yacht in Galapagos
(AP)
 AP - Sixteen Canadian tourists and eight Ecuadorean crew members were rescued from a yacht that ran aground in the Galapagos Islands, officials said Thursday.
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Cuban crackdown anniversary marked with protest
(AP)
 AP - Hundreds of government supporters surrounded a small group of Cuban dissidents as they marched through Havana on Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the arrests of their loved ones, screaming abuse but otherwise allowing the protest to proceed peacefully.
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Ladies in White march on Cuba crackdown anniversary
(Reuters)
Reuters - With tourists looking on, hundreds of pro-government protesters shouted down 40 members of the Cuban opposition group "Ladies in White" in Old Havana on the anniversary Thursday of a 2003 crackdown on dissidents.
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White House announces May state dinner for Mexico
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama will hold a state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderon on May 19.
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Cuba hijacker from 1968 pleads guilty in NY court
(Reuters)
Reuters - A fugitive who avoided prosecution for more than four decades after hijacking a Pan American flight in 1968 and diverting it to Cuba pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges including kidnapping and aircraft piracy.
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Clinton and Bush head to Haiti on Monday
(AP)
AP - Former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who are spearheading U.S. fundraising for Haiti, will make their first joint visit to the Caribbean nation on Monday to assess the nation's earthquake recovery needs.
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Ex-presidents George W. Bush, Clinton to visit Haiti
(AFP)
 AFP - Former US presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are to visit Haiti next week in support of relief efforts in the quake-stricken Caribbean country.
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Bill Clinton, George W. Bush to visit quake-devastated Haiti
(Reuters)
Reuters - Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will visit Haiti on Monday to discuss the impoverished country's long-term recovery after a January earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of people.
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Guatemala court okays ex-president's extradition to US
(AFP)
 AFP - A Guatemalan criminal court authorized the extradition of ex-president Alfonso Portillo to the United States, where he faces money laundering charges.
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Court OKs ex-Guatemalan leader's extradition to US
(AP)
AP - A Guatemalan court has approved former President Alfonso Portillo's extradition to the U.S. to face money laundering charges.
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All Haiti 'orphan' children reunited with parents
(AFP)
 AFP - The 33 Haitian children at the center of a US abduction row have finally been reunited with their families, but the fact that not one of them turned out to be an orphan raised fresh concern.
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Fear grips Mexican border families amid violence
(AP)
 AP - Elodia Ortiz drops her children at school in the morning, picks them up in the afternoon and makes an occasional trip to the supermarket. Anything else, she says, is too dangerous.
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Haiti parents take back kids given to missionaries
(AP)
 AP - Joyful parents on Wednesday recovered the children that they gave to American missionaries about six weeks ago.
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