Peru's Amazon oil deals denounced
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Environmentalists in Peru criticise plans to auction off large swathes of the Amazon to oil and gas firms.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's state oil company said Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips had refused to sign deals Tuesday that would allow them keep pumping oil under tougher terms in the South American country.
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A deal between Liberia and the world's largest steel company is unfair and bad for the country, campaigners say.
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Regulators granted preliminary approval Monday to a massive Amazon dam project praised by business leaders as a way to prevent possible energy shortages but criticized by environmentalists as a potential environmental disaster.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 1 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's decision to pull the plug on an anti-government television station has prompted days of protests and generated international condemnation, giving a weak and demoralized opposition a rallying cry after years of setbacks.
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Internet retailer Amazon dismisses a report that it is failing to get orders delivered to its customers in time for Christmas.
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Human rights activists cheered a rare decision by a Peruvian consumer protection agency Friday to close a popular restaurant and impose a stiff fine for repeatedly turning away dark-skinned people.
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Venezuela accused U.S. anti-drug agents Friday of collaborating with traffickers and rejected Washington's allegations that rampant corruption has allowed illegal drug smuggling to thrive in the South American country.
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Chilean producers of a grape brandy known as Pisco petitioned their government on Friday to stop an Argentine producer from selling the product in Europe under the same name, which Peru also claims as its own.
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Peru's president calls for critics to back off as his deputy suffers a heart attack after TV interviews.
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Venezuela's information minister on Saturday criticized a U.S. plan to withdraw support for &#36;250 million in loan requests by his country because of its alleged role in the international trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation.
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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said on Saturday the government would suspend contracts with any foreign oil company found to have needlessly damaged the environment.
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.  was criticized Friday for keeping its investment in PetroChina Co.  amid claims the Chinese oil company's parent invests in Sudan.
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Some oil majors have rejected  Venezuela&#39;s terms for the takeover of their multi-billion  dollar projects and can leave the OPEC nation, President Hugo  Chavez said on Friday, days before a deadline for them to  strike nationalization deals.
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A popular restaurant in Lima, Peru has been temporarily closed and fined for turning away dark-skinned people.
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Peru's state-run television station broadcast images Thursday of villagers in the country's remote Lake Titicaca region dousing an accused thief with gasoline and setting him ablaze.
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ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil refused to meet Venezuelaâs deadline for ceding control of major oil ventures, a move that could mean the loss of billions in investments.