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Bogota, May 8 (IANS/EFE) Colombian authorities have seized 29.35 billion pesos ($14.6 million) worth of smuggled goods from the country's free-trade zone near Panama, officials said.
The raid took place on a ship in Colombia's main Pacific port of Buenaventura. Six 20-tonne containers, in which liquor, cigarettes, candies, shoes, perfumes, toys
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Madrid, May 6 (IANS/EFE) Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and opposition leader Mariano Rajoy have agreed to overhaul the law regulating savings banks and to promote mergers aimed at consolidating the sector.
Rajoy, head of the conservative Popular Party, announced the pact Wednesday after more than two hours of
Mexico City, May 6 (IANS/EFE) More than 300 kg of synthetic drugs valued at $7.8 million have been seized by Mexican army troops in Tijuana city, near the border with San Diego, the defence secretariat said.
The quantity of drugs was sufficient to produce nearly 942,000 doses, it said.
The drugs were
Madrid, May 5 (IANS/EFE) Cuba - despite its image as a backward nation ruled by a despotic Communist regime - provides the best conditions for motherhood among developing countries, according to Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2010 report.
The report, made public Monday, examines 160 countries - 43
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Mexico City, May 4 (IANS/EFE) The Mexican Navy has seized 2.4 tonnes of cocaine stashed in a fishing boat intercepted in the Pacific waters.
The navy acted on a tip from the US intelligence that drugs might be aboard the Mexican-flagged vessel.
The fishing boat had apparently taken on the cocaine cargo
Sao Paulo, May 4 (IANS/EFE) The son of the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar said that from the incalculable fortune of his father, the only thing he inherited was a watch that he keeps out of 'affection'.
'My dad wasn't very good at accounts, at numbers, I don't think he
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San Jose, May 4 (IANS/EFE) Over 6,300 women in Costa Rica have Maria Rodriguez as their names, prompting the Costa Rican government to produce a documentary based on their lives.
The documentary follows the daily lives of five women named Maria Rodriguez, and even held a meeting asking all women of
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Bogota, May 3 (IANS/EFE) More than 20 million Colombians - 45.5 percent of the population of the Latin American nation - are living below the poverty line, an official report has said.
Poverty in Colombia last year affected 19.9 million people. Of them, more than 7.1 million were destitute, the study
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