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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Venezuela TV host goes off air after audio scandal

    Opposition lawmaker Ismael Garcia, center, speaks during a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, May 20, 2013. Venezuela's opposition has released an audio recording that it says contains a prominent member of the ruling party discussing political strategy with a Cuban intelligence officer. They have accused Cuban leaders of wielding influence behind the scenes in guiding ...

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Spellbound [DVD]

Spellbound [DVD]

Despite getting good reviews and several Oscar nominations when it was first released in 1945, in the long run, Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, the second of four films he would make with powerful independent producer David O. Selznick, has gotten a pretty bad rap. Consider that, in the lengthy, book-length interviews Franois Truffaut conducted with Hitchcock, the section on Spellbound ...

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  • Colombia Two Spanish Tourists Kidnapped

    A beach in La Guajira in northern Colombia. Photo from Flickr In reports that were released today, it has been revealed that two Spanish tourists were kidnapped in northern Colombia on Friday. Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the announcement today of the kidnapping of ngel Snchez Fernndez, 49, and Concepcin Marlaska Sedano, 43, in the northeast department of La Guajira. Spanish ...

  • Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies opens registration for Tourism Fair of the Americas

    The Brazilian Association of Travel Agencies (ABAV) has opened registration for visitors who wish to participate in the 41st edition of ABAV - Tourism Fair of the Americas, which will be held from September 4 to 8 at the Anhembi Exhibit Hall (SP). Those who wish to participate should log on to the event website and click Online Registration on the right side of the home page. After reading and ...

  • Prehistoric crocodiles ruled the roost in South America study finds

    Modern alligators and crocodiles rarely share the same environments but that was not true of their prehistoric ancestors in South America, paleontologists say. From 9 million to 5 million years ago the deltas of the Amazonas and the Urumaco, a river on the Gulf of Venezuela that no longer exists, boasted an unparalleled abundance of extremely diverse, highly specialized species of crocodile, ...

  • CICAD Begins Debate on the Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas

    May 21, 2013 The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS) today began debate on the Report on the Problem of Drugs in the Americas ...

  • Research and Markets Venezuela Oil and Gas Industry Outlook to 2020 - Supply Demand Investment Infrastructure and ...

    "Venezuela Oil and Gas Industry Outlook to 2020 - Supply, Demand, Investment, Infrastructure (Fields, Blocks, Pipelines, LNG, Refinery, Storage Assets) and Companies" report to their offering. Venezuela Oil and Gas Industry Outlook to 2020 provides a comprehensive overview of the Venezuela oil and gas sector, covering the entire value chain of the industry. It analyzes and ...

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