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Venezuela ambassador leaves Lima
amid escalating Venezuela-Peru
tension
The already tense Venezuela-Peru
relations worsened on Thursday,
after Venezuela recalled its
ambassador in Lima, four days
after Peru withdrew its
ambassador in Caracas amid an
escalating war of words.
Mexico
arrests 158 illegal Central
American immigrants
Mexico's Immigration and
Naturalization Service arrested
158 illegal Central American
immigrants in the central state
of Puebla on Thursday, police
said.
Brazil's Petrobras to halt new
investments in Bolivia
Brazilian state-owned
energy company Petroleo
Brasileiro (Petrobras) will make
no new investments in Bolivia
and will not accept any change
in the price of natural gas
imports, the head of the company
said on Wednesday.
Colombia arrests 16 drug-money
laundering suspects
Colombia's secret service said
on Tuesday that it had arrested
16 people charged with
laundering drug money totaling
at least 4 million U.S. dollars.
Nationalization is not
expropriation: Bolivian
president
Bolivian President Evo Morales
said on Wednesday the
nationalization of the natural
gas sector was not confiscation
or expropriation of foreign
companies assets.
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