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  • Paraguay becomes South Americas used car paradise

    Paraguay has become the main destination in South America for used cars from Japan, the US and other countries, thanks to new regulations aimed at making it easier to import automobiles so low-income consumers can purchase vehicles. Used cars are all the rage in Paraguay, where vehicles that have been shipped from thousands of kilometers away are put to use as soon as they are repaired and made ...

  • Venezuelas Maduro warns of psychological war

    President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday denounced as "psychological war" a leaked audio recording that purports to show a power struggle among key followers of the late Hugo ...

  • Oil Prices Drop After Gasoline Stocks Jump

    U.S. crude futures prices fell below $96 a barrel on Wednesday after an unexpected increase in U.S. gasoline stockpiles ahead of the summer driving season in the world's largest oil ...

  • Oil Prices Have Been Rigged For Years European Union Just Now Starting To Investigate

    they’re launching an investigation into the rigging of oil prices. It’s long been known that much of what drives the price of oil, and therefore gasoline, food, and other products, is not the free market, but rather, the biggest players in the oil market, and yet this has largely gone untouched while people throw blame here, there and everywhere for the high price of gasoline. The ...

  • Venezuela parliament resumes 3 weeks after brawl

    Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during the departure of Simon Bolivar's school sailing ship at the naval dock in La Guaira Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2013. The ship with 175 people on board starts his twenty-fifth cruise abroad instruction. (AP Photo/Ariana ...

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Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

Louis Letteriers remake--or reimagining, or whatever-you-want-to-call-it--of 1981s campy mythological mash-up Clash of the Titans is just about what you would expect it to be. Maintaining only the barest of plot threads from Desmond Daviss original, this new cinematic ... ...

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  • Venezuelan Banker and Miami Brokerage Workers Are Accused of Fraud

    CARACAS, Venezuela ...

  • Venezuelan opposition airs conspiracy recordings against Maduro from his own party

    The Venezuelan opposition has released an audio recording that it said contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. Opposition lawmaker Ismael García said the recording captures a phone conversation between state TV personality Mario Silva, a staunch government ally, and a Cuban identified as Lieutenant Colonel Aramis ...

  • Venezuela Black and Blue

    The left eye of Julio Borges, a deputy in the Venezuelan National Assembly from the opposition party, Primero Justicia, is the best symbol of the way things are going in Venezuelan politics. When I interviewed him two weeks ago, he had a deep purple stripe under his eye, as if he were an athlete wearing a streak of eye black to avoid being dazzled by the sun. But his stripe was the result of a ...

  • Solvista hits gold-copper whopper in Colombia

    's view of its Caramanta project in Colombia, few would argue it was a featherweight copper-gold intercept. Solvista's shareprice took off Tuesday - up 40 percent at presstime - after it reported 457 metres @ 1.01 g/t gold and 0.21 percent copper. Solvista called this its longest and most continuously mineralized intercept yet drilled at Caramanta, in Colombia's Antioquia ...

  • Oil prices fall after four days of gain

    OIL prices have fallen for the first time in five days on the eve of Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's highly anticipated testimony to Congress on the outlook for the US ...

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