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July 28, 2006Mexico: Copper giant fires 2,000 workers The Mexican corporation Grupo Mexico has fired all 2,000 miners at its huge La Caridad copper mine. Workers there and at the company’s copper mine in Cananea and steel plant...
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U.S. troops in Paraguay attract attention
July 28, 2006While the Mercosur meetings were going on in Argentina, more than 2,000 people from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, representing 40 labor union and human rights groups, attended the Second Social Forum of the Triple Border in...
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Mercosur promotes South American unity
July 28, 2006Closing the 30th summit of Mercosur, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the new president of the 15-year-old South American trade association, observed, “Many still don’t realize that we have changed the political profile of...
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Venezuelas Communists hold party congress
July 28, 2006CARACAS — More than 3,000 Venezuelans filled the Poliedro, the auditorium here where the Communist Party of Venezuela opened its 12th National Congress on July 20. Venezuela’s population is very young, and the delegates to the...
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Secessionists roil waters in Bolivia
July 28, 2006As it prepares for the Constituent Assembly that begins on Aug. 6, Bolivian President Evo Morales’ government faces divisions and the prospect of protracted struggle. The issue of autonomy for states and regions came to a...
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