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Colombia seizes property of
paramilitary commander
implicated in drug-trafficking
Colombian attorney general's
office seized property worth 20
billion Colombian pesos (8
million US dollars) from a
paramilitary chief implicated in
drug trafficking, said a
Judicial police officer
Thursday.
Pinochet
charged over disappearance of
dissidents
Former Chilean dictator Augusto
Pinochet was charged Thursday
over the disappearance of
dissidents under his regime and
placed under house arrest, hours
after he made bail on charges of
corruption and tax evasion filed
only a day earlier.
Brazilian president rejects
corruption allegations
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva said on Thursday
the wave of corruption charges
against his government was part
of the atmosphere surrounding
the country's forthcoming
election campaign.
Salvador
FMLN Demands Social Budget
The opposition El Salvadoran
party, FMLN-Farabundo Marti
National Liberation Front, has
conditioned its approval of the
budget on increases in wages and
pensions and return to the
national currency.
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