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    Reading the Signs: Unemployment Numbers

    Aug 02, 2002 04:00 AM EDT

    ... confidence, the decline in the stock market, the concern about what's happening abroad. Remember Latin America is embroiled in currency problems in Brazil and Argentina. And so there are lots of risks that we won't quite have the momentum to make it over the hill and have the ...

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    Chavez Returned to Venezuelan Presidency

    Apr 15, 2002 05:00 PM EDT

    Appearing on television Sunday morning, the Venezuelan leader called for a national reconciliation. "I do not come with hate or rancor in my heart, but we must make decisions and adjust things," Chavez said at dawn Sunday. "I am issuing a call for understanding." Chavez was ousted from power Friday ...

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    President Bush's Latin American Tour

    Mar 25, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ... cautioning their own populations against thinking that Santa Claus was coming. They lowered expectations for the Bush trip. Why did the president go there and make a point of visiting Mexico, Central America and South America? ARTURO VALENZUELA: Well, from the point of view of the administration that was an ...

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    Saving Steel?

    Mar 06, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ... been accused of dumping cheap steel in the lucrative American market. Countries whose steel exports amount to less than 3 percent of American imports-- like Argentina, Turkey and Thailand-- would be exempt, along with NAFTA partners Mexico and Canada. The tariffs were not as big as the steel-makers and ...

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    Jorge Castaneda on U.S.-Mexico Relations

    Jan 14, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ... We talked about trade. We talked a lot about the regional issues that are of great importance and concern to both our governments and countries: Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela. So we have a broad range of issues that we discussed, and I must say we moved forward very briskly and very ...

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    Shape of the World - Part 2

    Jan 04, 2002 05:00 AM EDT

    ... the people, the polls show that the people were not as supportive as the governments. MARGARET WARNER: Some of the polls are astonishing. 60% in Argentina and Peru didn't want the U.S. to respond militarily and didn't want their governments to support it. ANDRES OPPENHEIMER: It was ...

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    Giant in the Sand

    Jun 01, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... coastline. RAY SUAREZ: You're a young fella, as we mentioned, a Ph.D. candidate. This must be quite a feather in your cap, to make a find of this kind? JOSHUA SMITH: Yeah, I guess I'm a little young to be sitting here talking to you about this ...

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    Hispanic Americans

    Mar 16, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ... belly of that country that was perceived for many years as the enemy. Many of us growing up in Mexico or in Colombia or in Argentina never really came across, lived nearby a Puerto Rican or a Cuban. And here we are for the first time becoming a nation made ...

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    Exiles in Paradise

    Feb 19, 1998 05:00 AM EDT

    Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers the work of a California artist.