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President Wins Support for Charter in Ecuador
data: 01.10.08
Leftist Rafael Correa won easy approval of a new Constitution that enhances his power while introducing a range of other measures.
 The United States has decided to suspend a trade deal with Bolivia because its president has failed to improve his country’s efforts to combat drug traffickers.
 Having been brought low by their dealings in obscure securities, bankers are reluctant to start lending again until the impact of the recession becomes clearer.
 Stéphane Dion’s announcement was a new low for a party that has dominated Canada’s politics for much of its history.
An American organization has set up an AIDS awareness program inside Mexican prisons, since the myths associated with AIDS are pronounced among the prisoners.
 As violent deaths in rebellious northern Bolivia increased, Evo Morales faced the worst crisis of his presidency.
Though the timing of an operation to free hostages in Colombia was unrelated to John McCain’s visit, the events helped the candidate highlight his foreign policy credentials.
Authorities investigating the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico’s interior minister this week ruled out a bomb, officials said.
 The commander of the police unit that investigates organized crime and kidnapping in Coahuila State was himself kidnapped on Monday.
 Officials denied paying a ransom to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for the release of hostages.
A car bomb exploded early Monday near the Palace of Justice in Cali, Colombia’s third largest city, killing 4 people and wounding as many as 20.
A former computer programmer for the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada was convicted on five terrorism-related charges on Wednesday.
 The Ontario government said Wednesday that it would compensate several people wrongfully convicted of having murdered children.
Despite pleas from the White House and the State Department, as well as an international court order to review their cases, Texas will execute five Mexicans on death row.
 President Álvaro Uribe apologized to the Red Cross for the misuse of its symbol during a military mission, which he said was an unauthorized error by a nervous soldier.
 Raúl Castro’s government willingly operates in his older brother Fidel’s shadow at the same time it tries to forge a path of its own.
Polecamy:
1. The Saturday Profile: Protecting Herself as Much as Her Drug Lord Clients
data: 15.11.08
Silvia Raquenel Villanueva, Mexico’s most prominent “narco abogada,” or lawyer to the drug lords, continues to receive threats, which she deflects with prayer.
2. World Briefing | The Americas: Venezuela: Chávez Sings on New Album
data: 15.11.08
President Hugo Chávez, who has been known to belt out Venezuelan folk songs during his frequent television appearances, has recorded an album.
3. 5 Die in Shootout at Mexican Jail
data: 15.11.08
There has been a wave of killings in Mexican jails over the past few months, as the battles between rival drug cartels carry over to prisons.
4. World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Bomb Ruled Out in Plane Crash
data: 15.11.08
Authorities investigating the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico’s interior minister this week ruled out a bomb, officials said.
5. School on Haitian Hillside Collapses, Killing 30
data: 15.11.08
More children were believed to be buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the death toll was likely to rise, said a civil defense official at the scene.
6. Getting Tough: Deported in a Coma, Saved Back in U.S.
data: 15.11.08
Antonio Torres’s case illustrates the haphazard way that the health care system handles uninsured immigrants.
7. Death Toll Rises to 92 in School Collapse in Haiti
data: 15.11.08
Officials said 700 children had been enrolled at a ramshackle school, but it was not known how many were inside when it caved in while class was in session.
8. National Briefing | South: Florida: Smuggling Charges Filed in Fatal Voyage
data: 15.11.08
A boat captain from the Dominican Republic has been charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after his vessel ran aground near Miami on Oct. 31, killing six people.
9. World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Interior Minister Is Named
data: 15.11.08
President Felipe Calderón appointed Fernando Francisco Gómez Mont, a lawyer and former lawmaker, as the new interior minister.
10. Rescuers, Finding No New Survivors, Will Raze Haiti School
data: 15.11.08
Rescuers at a collapsed school in Haiti were ending the hunt for survivors and will soon demolish the remains of the building, where about 90 people were killed.
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