Chavez pardons accused coup backers
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President Hugo Chavez granted amnesty Monday to many opponents accused of supporting a failed 2002 coup that briefly drove him from power.
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez asserted that âit was trueâ that the former Spanish conservative administration of Jose Aznar had supported the April 2002 coup.
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Thirty Ethiopian opposition leaders sentenced to life in prison over election protests are pardoned.
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo pardoned her ousted predecessor Thursday, paving the way for Joseph Estrada's release a month after he was sentenced to life in prison for corruption
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez's rival pledged to prevent fraud in Sunday's election as he coolly dismissed an alleged sniper plot to assassinate him that has fueled Venezuelans' fears of post-vote violence.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A Venezuelan prosecutor  probing a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez was killed by  a car bomb that the government blamed Friday on radical  opponents it said were training in the United States.
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PANAMA CITY.âThe government of Panama has pardoned four terrorists sentenced to eight yearsâ imprisonment for conspiring to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro, the national press announced today Thursday, according to EFE and Notimex.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez survived a popular referendum to oust him, according to results Monday, while Venezuela's opposition swiftly claimed fraud.    Backers of the leftist populist president set off fireworks and began celebrating in the streets of the capital in the pre-dawn darkness upon hearing the news from Francisco Carrasquero, president of the National Elections Council...
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Panama&#39;s outgoing president has pardoned four Cuban emigres convicted for their role in an assassination attempt on Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Laid-off Brazilian factory workers have their jobs back, Nicaraguan farmers are getting low-interest loans, and Bolivian mayors can afford new health clinics, all thanks to the Venezuelan president, Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez.
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Castigated for losing track of their own prisoners, leftist rebels release two long-held women politicians  -  which could be a boost for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
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A new penal code approved by Venezuela's Congress would stiffen prison sentences for slander and libel, drawing criticism from opponents of President Hugo Chavez.
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President Hugo Chavez was granted free rein Wednesday to accelerate changes in broad areas of society by presidential decree, a move critics said propels Venezuela toward dictatorship.
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Four men accused of planning to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro have been pardoned by Panama's president.
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Venezuela's left-wing President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum on his divisive rule in a vote backed on Monday by international observers who found no "element of fraud."
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Legislators today approved laws barring the Cambodian government from pardoning Khmer Rouge suspects, one day after ratifying a landmark UN-backed plan to set up a tribunal to prosecute surviving leaders of the murderous 1970s regime.
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Panama's outgoing president on  Thursday pardoned four Cuban exiles jailed for plotting to kill  Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000 and three or them flew  straight to Miami, a haven of anti-Castro groups.