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| Paraguay's New President May be Moderate |
Paraguayan President-elect Fernando Lugo was all smiles as he and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez embraced, talked of a revolution for the poor and pledged to build a united Latin America. But as the former Roman Catholic priest ended a three-nation tour Thursday that also included visits to Venezuela's leftist allies in Bolivia and Ecuador, political analysts predicted he will take a less radical approach to governing. 'He sees himself on the side of the progressive forces that want to change the relationship between Latin... American countries and the United States,' said Fred Rossen, an analyst at the New York-based North American Congress on Latin America. | |
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FDA Visits Mexico Farms Tainted Tomatoes 
There might be a break in the salmonella case -- or not.
Food and Drug Administration inspectors headed for farms in Florida and Mexico on Friday as new clues emerged to the possible source of salmonella-tainted tomatoes that have sickened more than 500 people.
| Coca Cultivation Rises In Colombia, U.N. Says 
BOGOTA, Colombia, June 18 -- The amount of land devoted to production of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, has grown at a dramatic pace in Colombia despite a huge American-funded counter-drug program of aerial fumigation and aggressive interdiction, a U.N. agency said Wednesday.
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Picasso Prints Stolen From Brazil Museum 
SÃO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- Three heavily armed robbers stole two Pablo Picasso prints from an art museum in downtown São Paulo on Thursday, the city's second high profile art theft in less than a year.
| Chavez Protests EU With Oil Threat 
(CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened not to sell oil to European Union countries.
The threat is for those that follow new rules on immigration, but oil analysts said the threat was largely symbolic since no European country buys oil from Venezuela.
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