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| Feb.2 |
 Venezuela |
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Opposition leaders agree to ease strike Leaders of a strike would ease the work stoppage next week to protect businesses against bankruptcy
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| Feb.4 |
 Argentina |
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Peronist governor tops presidential poll Nestor Kirchner backed by President Duhalde crept to first place in unpredictable presidential race
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| Feb.5 |
Venezuela |
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 Currency rate fixed Chavez suspended the sale of dollars for two weeks because of a crippling general strike
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| Feb.7 |
 Colombia |
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 Club blast kills 33  Map of Bogota Colombia| Car bomb rocked a northern Bogota social club. A large crater was discovered in the third-floor parking lot | |
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| Feb.9 |
Venezuela |
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Chavez threatens to jail strikers President threatened to jail thousands of oil workers fired for leading a 2-month strike against him
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| Feb.11 |
Colombia |
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Plane wreckage found The debris of a plane carrying one of most popular ministers has been found
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| Feb.13 |
Colombia |
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Plane carrying Americans crashes A U.S. government plane with 5 people on board crashed in rebel territory
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| Feb.14 |
Colombia |
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 Police raid hit by explosion, 15 killed Police tried to stop an alleged presidential assassination plot
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Colombia |
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2 executed near plane wreckage The bodies of American and Colombian who had been aboard a U.S. plane have been found a mile from the craft
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| Feb.18 |
 Peru |
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Ex-spy chief on public trial Vladimiro Montesinos, has appeared in court to face the first of 57 charges
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 Ecuador |
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Military climb volcano for 1976 crash Teams have begun ascending Ecuador's highest peak to investigate the reported discovery of the frozen remains
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| Feb.20 |
Venezuela |
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Strike leader arrested Carlos Fernandez was snatched out by secret police and faces charges of treason and instigating violence
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| Feb.21 |
Venezuela |
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Chavez calls for labor leader's arrest Police searched for the leader of largest labor group after Chavez authorized his arrest on treason charges
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| Feb.22 |
Colombia |
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 FARC rebels 'hold Americans'| Left-wing group has said that it is holding three US citizens who vanished when their plane crash-landed | |
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 Bolivia |
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Bolivia may legalize coca The president is considering a plan to resume cultivation of the raw ingredient in cocaine in a remote basin
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Colombia |
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U.S. adds to military presence Additional U.S. military personnel have been dispatched to Colombia, where leftist rebels held 3 Americans captive
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| Feb.24 |
Colombia |
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Missing US men 'prisoners of war'| Left-wing rebels of FARC say hostages will only be freed in return for the release of several fellow militants | |
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Venezuela |
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 Blasts damage diplomatic buildings| Near-simultaneous explosions badly damaged the Spanish Embassy and the Colombian consulate | |
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| Feb.26 |
Colombia |
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 Army helicopter crashes with 23 aboard The U.S.-made Black Hawk went down in bad weather as it hunted leftist guerrillas
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Argentina |
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Argentina seeks Iranian diplomats Prosecutors are seeking international arrest warrants over the 1994 attack on a Jewish community centre
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| Feb.27 |
 Rio de Janeiro |
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Army on street for carnival| The government for the first time sending troops onto the streets following a wave of violence by drug gangs | |
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