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Latin America’s two largest nations are vying for economic and diplomatic clout as their candidates face off as finalists to head the World Trade Organization.
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Venezuela’s President-elect Nicolas Maduro, who will be sworn in tomorrow, agreed to a full audit of the votes cast in the country’s closest election in 45 years as the opposition contests the results.
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During his first two days as Venezuela’s acting president, Nicolas Maduro didn’t lose a chance to swear his loyalty to Hugo Chavez, whether it was hosting a Chinese delegation or visiting his mentor’s coffin for the seventh time.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos needs to overcome opposition from his former mentor and a history of guerrilla deception to forge a peace accord with the nation’s biggest rebel group.
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Henrique Capriles Radonski , whose family members own Venezuela’s biggest movie theater chain, is emerging as President Hugo Chavez ’s strongest rival in 2012 elections by copying his favorite ploy of lavishing public money on the poor.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has used his stature to play peacemaker on Iran. Closer to home, he has shown little appetite for wielding his clout with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to repair a rupture with Colombia.
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President Barack Obama pledged to overcome past neglect and forge a stronger partnership with Latin America as the region’s economic progress boosts its importance to the U.S.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is set to undergo a third operation in his battle with cancer as he prepares to face the younger candidate of a newly unified opposition in October’s election.
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Venezuela faces political infighting and the risk of unrest after the death of Hugo Chavez, whose personal brand of socialism left the region’s biggest oil exporter polarized and among the world’s most violent countries.
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President-elect Ollanta Humala sought to assure U.S. officials as he visited Washington today that Peru under his leadership won’t allow relations with its biggest trading partner to sour.
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