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Guatemala Readies Anti-CAFTA
March
Guatemalan popular sectors
announced a march for Feb 24
against the US-devised CAFTA-DR
that will gather some 40,000
farmers, unionists, indigenous
peoples, teachers and youth.
Uribe
Falls Short at US-FTA Talks
Neither the presence of
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
nor his close ties with
Washington relaxed the US
position to close Saturday the
Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
between both nations.
Chile
Communists: Out of Haiti
The Communist Party of Chile on
Friday called for an end to the
military occupation of Haiti as
soon as possible, and criticized
the incoherence of Chile´s
right-wing
Colombian rebels restart talks
in Cuba
The National Liberation Army (ELN),Colombia's
second-largest rebel group,
began a second round of talks
with Luis Carlos Restrepo, the
Colombian peace commissioner, in
Cuba on Friday.
Chavez
threatens to cut off oil exports
to US
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
on Friday threatened to cut off
oil exports to the United States
if it "goes over the line".
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