Bolivia News
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Ronaldinho and Kaka, former world players of the year, were left out of Brazil’s 23-player squad for next month’s Confederations Cup.
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The head of the Cayman Islands financial services industry trade group rejected charges from economist Jeffrey Sachs that the Caribbean nation’s oversight of hedge funds and banks is a “mortal threat” to the global economy.
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Spanish politicians trying to cushion the blows of austerity plan to seize foreclosed homes to house the needy, discouraging foreign investment and threatening to violate terms of the European bailout of the country’s banks.
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Across the river from Belinda Elida Barja’s two-room apartment, the lead and zinc smelters of Doe Run Peru spread smoke and dust in the mountain town of La Oroya.
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Ecuador, which defaulted on $3.2 billion of its foreign debt four years ago, is planning to tap global credit markets this year as demand for higher-yielding assets drives down borrowing costs, Standard & Poor’s said.
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Carbon-market supporters from China to California will push for emissions trading even as they prepare for the end of the United Nations Kyoto Protocol in seven years, Europe’s top climate negotiator said.
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Repsol SA, the Spanish oil producer that lost a third of its value last year, said first-quarter earnings beat estimates as refining margins widened and production ramped up in Brazil.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales, who traditionally uses May 1 speeches to announce company takeovers, said he’s expelling the U.S. Agency for International Development for conspiring against his government.
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U.S. natural gas services company Exterran Holdings Inc. won a contract to operate one of Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos’ gas plants, state news agency ABI reported.
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Tobacco magnate Horacio Cartes was elected president of Paraguay yesterday amid agriculture-driven economic expansion forecast to surpass 11 percent this year in one of Latin America’s poorest countries.
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