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      <title><![CDATA[Letter to Lula da Silva: “Cuba no longer a symbol, no longer a taboo”]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/20/letter-to-lula-da-silva-cuba-no-longer-a-symbol-no-longer-a-taboo</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Brazil and the community of Latin American countries are the only ones with the ability to influence the Cuban government’s position on human rights and media freedom, says a letter addressed to Brazilian president Lula da Silva by Reporters Without Borders.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, International, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:05:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Latinamerica left out of Denmark’s aid and development programs]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Denmark’s Minister of Development and Cooperation Sören Pind announced Friday that Latinamerica would be eliminated from the Danish International Development Agency economic aid programs, which in 2008 totalled almost 100 million US dollars concentrated in “vulnerable and fragile” zones.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, International, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:42:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Insulza re-election as OAS Secretary General is “almost certain”]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/20/insulza-re-election-as-oas-secretary-general-is-almost-certain</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[With less than a week for the election of a new Organization of American States Secretary General, OAS, international analysts consider as “almost certain” the re-election of Chile’s Jose Miguel Insulza, although they do not discard a last minute “artificial” or protest candidate.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:13:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chile considers increasing mining royalty to help earthquake reconstruction]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/19/chile-considers-increasing-mining-royalty-to-help-earthquake-reconstruction</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Marking a break from established policy, the Chilean government is considering the opposition’s proposal to increase the mining royalty tax. Government ministers are currently studying the implications of a tax increase, the money from which would be used to aid in earthquake reconstruction.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Economy, Politics, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:10:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Haiti reconstruction bill estimated in 11.5 billion USD]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/19/haiti-reconstruction-bill-estimated-in-11.5-billion-usd</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Haiti will need 11.5 billion US dollars to rebuild after the devastating earthquake in January, the country's government estimates. The amount is a rough estimate of money required for a complete overhaul of the impoverished country, officials say.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Environment, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:40:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[EP president condemns arrest of Cuban political prisoners’ women relatives]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/19/ep-president-condemns-arrest-of-cuban-political-prisoners-women-relatives</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The president of the European Parliament has sharply condemned Cuba for arresting a group of women, all of them relatives of political prisoners, who were demonstrating in Havana on Wednesday.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:31:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Relatives of quake victims suing Chile for absence of tsunami warning]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/19/relatives-of-quake-victims-suing-chile-for-absence-of-tsunami-warning</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Relatives of two sisters who died in the Feb. 27 tsunami are suing Chilean government agencies they claim are responsible for the absence of an adequate tsunami warning.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Environment, Politics, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:27:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chile’s quake death toll, 700 and economic damage: 18% of GDP]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/18/chile-s-quake-death-toll-700-and-economic-damage-18-of-gdp</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Chilean government has updated the death toll from the Feb. 27 earthquake, saying 700 people lost their lives during or following the quake. Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter said just over 500 are confirmed dead, with another 200 missing.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Economy, Politics, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:30:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Piñera’s first international visit Washington, next month]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/18/pinera-s-first-international-visit-washington-next-month</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chile’s new president Sebastián Piñera will make his first international visit next month when he attends the Nuclear Safety Summit in Washington, responding to an invitation from U.S. President Barack Obama.]]></description>
      <category><![CDATA[Politics, Latin America]]></category>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:26:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[World Bank, IMF and IDB resume links (and loans) with Honduras]]></title>
      <link>http://en.mercopress.com/2010/03/18/world-bank-imf-and-idb-resume-links-and-loans-with-honduras</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) member countries this week agreed to resume lending to Honduras, the latest development institution to recognize the new government of President Porfirio Lobo.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:23:00 UTC</pubDate>
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