Barack Obama signed a law in Decemberto counter Iran’s alleged influence in Latin America, where it has opened up several new embassies in recent years. The law calls for the State Department to shape a new diplomatic and political strategy in the region to undercut Iran’s efforts.
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While Argentina and Venezuela have had to devalue their currency as a result of rampant spending and foreign exchange shortages, the rest of Latin America faces exactly the opposite problem.
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Because we all know that Iran is taking over south America! The hypocrisy is mind boggling. Within 180 days the State department must come with a (secret for public scrutiny) strategy
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Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, has said Julian Assange should respond to the sexual assault allegations made against him by two Swedish women, even though the case would not in his view constitute criminal behaviour in Latin America.
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The agency warned that cities are becoming increasingly less compact, expanding physically in an “unsustainable” pattern. Sounds like Agenda 21 to me.
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Matthews asked President Obama how he felt about industrialization in Latin America, except in doing so, essentially managed to accuse Brazil of trying to pull a fast one on America and sink our economy
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Two weeks ago, Guatemala’s president Otto Perez Molina, a right wing conservative and former army general, stunned observers when he declared the U.S. inability to cut illegal drug consumption leaves his country with no option but to consider legalizing the use and transport of drugs.
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State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland called the comments “horrific and reprehensible”. (Notice how she doesn’t deny them!) On Wednesday Mr Chavez said it was “very strange” that he and other leftist leaders had all had cancer.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speculated on Wednesday that the United States might have developed a way to give Latin American leaders cancer, after Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez joined the list of presidents diagnosed with the disease.
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