Morales calls for EU-style unity in South America
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COCHABAMBA, Bolivia  - Bolivia's president closed a two-day regional summit on Saturday by saying a South American community of nations modeled on the European Union could become a reality in five years.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia &#151; President Evo Morales has caught the world's attention waving a coca leaf at the U.N. and rushing to Fidel Castro's sickbed. But the government's tougher tasks fall to his vice president; a gray-haired academic whose Marxist views have changed little since his guerrilla days.
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South American leaders on Wednesday launched a regional integration pact they said would go beyond rhetoric and usher in European-style unity, but only half the future bloc's 12 presidents turned up to sign it.
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Bolivia's Roman Catholic Church urges calm in the growing conflict over fuel price increases and regional autonomy.
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President Evo Morales on Friday proposed shutting down the opposition-controlled Senate, the latest step in a drive to expand his legal powers and push through further populist reforms.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday the United States was trying to divide Latin America with accusations his government smuggled $800,000 to influence Argentina's recent election campaign.
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Venezuela's foreign minister said Monday that efforts to integrate Latin American economies through regional free trade agreements will eventually boost commerce with the United States.
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EL ALTO, Bolivia  - Damiana Katari, who knits clothes for a living and wears long black braids, a bowler hat and layers of colored skirts, proudly voted to elect fellow Aymara Indian Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia.
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Across the low-lying plains in this eastern Bolivia city, green and white flags hang from storefronts and drape from cars &#151; symbols of a growing push for greater political autonomy in the country's most prosperous region.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Sunday for a socialist counterattack against the American "empire," taking his campaign to upstage President Bush's Latin American tour to a packed gymnasium in a poor, indigenous Bolivian city.
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Worried about the growing influence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Bush administration is trying to make friends with more moderate leftist leaders in Latin America, where anti-U.S. sentiment runs high.
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The fractious outcome of a vote on autonomy for Bolivia&#039;s states and the government&#039;s apparent failure to win enough backing to rewrite the constitution could dampened the leftist agenda of President Evo Morales.
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South American leaders agreed Saturday to create a high-level commission to study the idea of forming a continent-wide community similar to the European Union.
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Bolivian President Evo Morales and opposition governors agree to draw up a pact of national unity in crisis talks.
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President Hugo Chavez marked Venezuela&#039;s entry into the South American trade bloc Mercosur with a six-nation summit Tuesday, an alliance that he says should be a common front against U.S. free trade deals.
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The South American trade bloc Mercosur and the European Union said after a ministerial meeting Sunday they hope to conclude stalled talks about free-trade agreement on time.
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Oil-rich nations brushed off a push by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to cut production, but he used the OPEC meeting to push for expanding the cartel&#039;s membership and praised Bolivia&#039;s nationalization of its natural gas industry.