Ecuador Marks Anniversary of U.S. Dollar
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Jorge Subia is nostalgic when he talks about this Andean nation's former currency, the sucre, and bridles with patriotic resentment when he recalls how it was replaced as the official legal tender by the U.S. dollar.
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Chile marks the anniversary of the 1973 military coup, as protests erupt in the capital, Santiago.
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HAVANA - Cuban Central Bank president Francisco Soberon said he is committed to ensuring the convertible peso remains on par with the US dollar in the wake of his country&#39;s currency replacing dollars as legal tender.
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AMERICA/ECUADOR - "Con l'amore di Dio trasformiamo l'Ecuador": 1000 giovani universitari parteciperanno alla Missione Ecuador 2006 con attivitÃ  di evangelizzazione e di assistenza sociale verso quanti hanno maggiori necessitÃ  Quito (Agenzia Fides) - Circa 1.000 giovani universitari parteciperanno dal 1Â° al 10 settembre ad un'attivitÃ  di evangelizzazione e di servizio sociale denominata "Missione Ecuador 2006". La Missione Ã¨ un'iniziativa dell'UniversitÃ  Tecnica di Loja (U...
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U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow repeated Thursday that the United States supports a strong dollar and "currency values set in open markets," even as the dollar plunged to a new low against the euro earlier in the day.
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Chicago Tribune - Thanking the woman behind the currency exchange window, Deniz Akar crouched in front of his son and showed him the crisp new bills and shiny coins. It wasn't candy or a new toy, but the 3-year-old smiled happily.
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NEW YORK The dollar firmed against the euro on Tuesday, finding support from a growing chorus of European officials expressing concerns over the rapid ascent of their currency.
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NEW YORK (CP) - The U.S. dollar fell to an all-time low against the euro Friday as European political leaders signalled they have no unified plan to stem the rise in the five-year-old currency used by 12 countries.
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PENIPE, Ecuador  - Transito Gavilanez, a 70-year-old Ecuadorean farmer, has lived in and out of shelters since the "Throat of Fire" volcano began nine years ago to roar and spit fiery rock near rural hamlets tucked on its folds.
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EL COCA, Ecuador  - Under pressure to preserve the environment while at the same time ease the poverty of his people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has come up with an unusual solution.
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Chileans remember  President Allende who died in the 1973 coup, as Gen Pinochet faces abuse claims.
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Cubans rushed to change dollars into  local pesos on Tuesday as President Fidel Castro's communist  government prepared to pull the U.S. currency from circulation  more than a decade after it was legalized here.
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In a televised address, President Fidel Castro of Cuba announced Monday night that United States dollars, which have kept his country&#39;s ailing economy afloat for the
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Citizens of Mexico pause to celebrate 150th anniversary of the country's national anthem.
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The dollar rallied against most  currencies except the yen on Friday, helped by U.S. economic  data and comments by President Bush and a top Federal Reserve  official viewed by the market as supportive of the U.S. unit.
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CUENCA, Ecuador  - Ecuadoreans have mostly swallowed their chagrin and accepted that their most famous export will for evermore be known as the "Panama hat".
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Cubans and tourists lined up to change U.S. dollars into local currency Sunday, the last day to do so without paying a 10 percent surcharge that is part of a government measure to eliminate the dollar from circulation on this communist-run island.