Nicaraguan President Faces Removal by Congress
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Nicaragua's unpopular president faces possible removal from office after a special Congressional committee was created on Thursday to explore corruption charges against him.
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Ecuador's Congress votes to sack the 31-member Supreme Court in a controversial move contested by the opposition.
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Thousands of Nicaraguans turned out Wednesday for the funeral of former presidential candidate Herty Lewites, whose unexpected death appeared to increase the chances of Sandinista ex-President Daniel Ortega returning to power in November's election.
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Leftist lawmakers who have charged that fraud marred the presidential election in July staged a protest inside Congress.
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Washington's close ally in Latin America is railing against judges and journalists who question his political record
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New leftist President Rafael Correa said Saturday he will resign if his supporters do not win control of an assembly to rewrite Ecuador's constitution.
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Nicaragua assured Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Friday it would destroy more than 1,300 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles that Washington fears could fall into the hands of terrorists.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched yet another verbal assault against President Bush upon returning from a highly charged U.S. visit Friday, calling on the American leader to resign.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched yet another verbal attack against President Bush upon returning from a highly charged U.S. visit Friday, calling on the American leader to resign.
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Panama's ruling party has nominated a lawmaker who was indicted for the murder of a U.S. soldier in the 1990s as its candidate to head the National Assembly in a vote likely to upset Washington.
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A former novice who gave up training to be a nun to fight in a leftist insurrection against a hated dictator was sworn in on Tuesday as Nicaragua's police chief.
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A row erupts after the Dominican Republic's new president awards top jobs to four fraud suspects.   Opposition leaders attack he new president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez,
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Peruâs former president, Alberto K. Fujimori, will likely face trial on corruption and human rights charges.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 17 -- The government of President ÃÂlvaro Uribe is being shaken by its most serious political crisis yet, as details emerge about members of Congress who collaborated with right-wing death squads to spread terror and exert political control across Colombia's Caribbean coast.
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Costa Rica's president said Monday he is asking Miguel Angel Rodriguez to resign as secretary-general of the Organization of American States because of alleged payments from a government contractor.
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Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites, who broke with the leftist Sandinista party to run against its leader Daniel Ortega, died of a heart attack Sunday, a close political ally said. He was 67.
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President Enrique Bolanos told U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld Friday that Nicaragua would completely eliminate a stockpile of hundreds of surface-to-air missiles with no expectation of compensation from the United States.