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2 hrs ago | AVHerald

TAM A320 enroute on Apr 28th 2013, passenger in captain's seat

A TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320-200, registration PR-MHU performing flight JJ-3081 from Recife,PE to Rio de Janeiro Galeao,RJ , was enroute when a passenger, a well known Brasilian singer, was invited to take the captain's seat and posed in the seat to fly the aircraft, that was on autopilot at that time with the first officer in his seat.

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Related Topix: Commercial Aircraft, Civil Aircraft, Aircraft, Airbus Aircraft, Airbus A320, World News, Brazil,

6 hrs ago | Bloomberg

Argentina's Former Military Dictator Jorge Videla Dies in Prison at Age 87

Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina's former dictator who led the country's military junta from 1976 to 1981, has died.

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Related Topix: Argentina, World News, Prison

Fri May 17, 2013

Clifton Journal

Clifton man returns to father's Peru

Jorge Marin and his oldest daughter Tiffany, top left, traveled to Peru with a group from the Madison Avenue Baptist Church in Paterson on a mission to distribute clothing and hope to the children of the 'most forgotten people' in the village of Canchirao in the Peruvian Andes, above.

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Related Topix: World News, Peru, Clifton, NJ,

USA Today

Will Latin American nations legalize marijuana?

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, holds a copy of a regional study the illicit drug trade presented by OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza, right, during a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Friday.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Marijuana, World News, Colombia, Peru, Prison

The Guardian

Jorge Rafael Videla obituary

Jorge RafaA©l Videla in 1978, two years after he led the coup that overthrew the PerA3n government in Argentina.

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Related Topix: Argentina, World News, Uruguay

Voice of America

Brazil Indians occupy cattle ranch in widening land dispute

President of the National Indian Foundation , Marta Maria do Amaral Azevedo , participates in a debate about the situation of indigenous people and issues that affect these communities, in Brasilia, April 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: World News, Brazil, Agriculture, Science,

Lowell Sun

Buenos Aires launches tours for Argentine pope

You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass.

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Related Topix: Argentina, World News, Travel, Buenos Aires, Argentina Travel, South America Travel, Argentina Travel, Bolivia Travel, Argentina, Bolivia Travel, Pope Benedict XVI

Digital Video Editing

America Movil binds Brazil units closer with Wi-Fi offering

Carlos Slim's America Movil subsidiaries in Brazil announced on Thursday a new combined broadband service, increasing their operational integration ahead of an expected corporate merger in the country.

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Related Topix: Brazil, World News, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Carlos Slim Helu,

Thu May 16, 2013

WRAL.com

Venezuelans scrambling to find scarce toilet paper

Venezuelans scrambled to stock up on toilet paper Thursday as fears of a bathroom emergency spread despite the socialist government's promise to import 50 million rolls.

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Related Topix: World News, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez

The Guardian

Plot to kill Colombian journalists uncovered

Officials say a hit man was hired to kill Gonzalo GuillA©n and LeA3n Valencia, who were investigating links between politicians and criminal groups Articles by Colombian journalist Ricardo CalderA3n exposing the luxurious life of soldiers jailed at a military base.

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Related Topix: World News, Colombia, Mafia,

Inside Colombia

Why Has The Italian Mafia Returned to Colombia?

A spate of recent arrests suggests the Italian mafia may be making a comeback in Colombia, where the fractured criminal landscape makes it easier for them to exert control over the drug trade.

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Related Topix: World News, Colombia, Mafia, Drugs, Prison

Democratic Underground Latest Breakin...

Colombia's Supreme Court convicts ex-lawmaker of masterminding massacre, sets 30-year sentence

Source: Associated Press Colombia's Supreme Court convicts ex-lawmaker of masterminding massacre, sets 30-year sentence By Associated Press, Updated: Wednesday, May 15, 7:43 PM BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's Supreme Court has convicted a former longtime congressman of being the mastermind behind the massacre of 43 people by right-wing paramilitary ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Colombia, Terrorism, US News, Liberal Political News

Bajan Reporter

French Ambassador to Explore New Ways of Cooperation

There is a promise from the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Steve Blackett, and French Ambassador to Barbados, Jacques Sturm , to explore new avenues for cooperation that would enhance the existing relationship.

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Related Topix: World News, French Guiana

West Hawaii Today

New scientific results mark 5th anniversary of eruption of Chaiten volcano, Chile

This false-color image obtained from NASA's Terra satellite on Jan. 19, 2009, shows an ash plume erupting from Chaiten volcano.

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Related Topix: Volcanic Eruption, Natural Disasters, Lahar, Chile, World News, Flood, Geology, Science

Wed May 15, 2013

KKLA-FM Glendale

Poverty: Fact or Choice?

This weekend I read an article in the current edition of The Intelligent Optimist titled No Limitations .

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Related Topix: World News, Paraguay

WTOP-FM Washington

Education woes seen as Achilles' heel of Brazil

There's a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow livers, intestines, brains and the other unidentifiable detritus of years' worth of dissections fill a dozen wading pool-sized vats to the brim.

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Related Topix: Brazil,

KLFY-TV Lafayette

Amnesty for undeclared dollars divides Argentina

A plan to get Argentines to pull their undeclared U.S. dollars from under their mattresses and out of illegal tax havens, and deposit them in the banking system is eliciting warnings that it will turn the country into a magnet for money launderers and organized crime.

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Related Topix: Argentina, World News

BBC News

Romario: From football rebel to politician

It is one of the more improbable character re-inventions. One of the greatest Brazilian footballers, a rebel rarely out of trouble, reborn as a hard-working politician and a campaigner for disability rights.

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Related Topix: Brazil, World News,

AlertNet

Colombia warns of plot to kill high-profile journalists

Colombia's government warned on Tuesday of a plot by a criminal group to kill several high-profile journalists just weeks after the attempted assassination of an investigative reporter boosted concerns over threats to a free press in the violence-plagued Andean nation.

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Related Topix: World News, Colombia, Journalism, Prison, Alvaro Uribe

Suria

Brazil gives green light to same sex...

Brazil became the third and largest Latin American country to give a de facto green light to same-sex marriage.

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Related Topix: World News, Brazil, Wedding, Gay/Lesbian