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Madrid, Mar 15 (EFE).- Just under seven tons of cocaine were seized in a 12-nation operation that dismantled an international organization that smuggled large quantities of illegal drugs from South America to Europe, Spanish officials said Monday.

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Havana, Mar 15 (EFE).- The Cuban government will close more than 100 "inefficient" state-run agricultural enterprises and transfer upwards of 40,000 workers to other jobs, Communist Party daily Granma said Monday.

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Havana, Mar 15 (EFE).- Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas said the health problems arising from the hunger strike he began almost three weeks ago to demand the release of ailing political prisoners will not deter him from resuming the fast once he is released from the hospital.

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Bogota, Mar 15 (EFE).- At least 26 guerrillas and militiamen were injured in a fight over the weekend at a prison in Colombia, prison officials told Caracol Radio.

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Asuncion, Mar 15 (EFE).- Congressman Pedro Gonzalez, a member of the governing Authentic Radical Liberal Party, or PLRA, said he was the target of an attack over the weekend in northeastern Paraguay but managed to escape unharmed.

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New York, Mar 11 (EFE).- Mexican Carlos Slim has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates and legendary investor Warren Buffett to become the richest person in the world, according to Forbes magazine's latest ranking of billionaires.

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Santiago, Mar 10 (EFE).- The head of Chile's emergency management office resigned Wednesday after criticism she had received regarding her agency's reaction to the Feb. 27 earthquake.

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Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Mar 10 (EFE).- The snowstorm that has lashed Spain in recent days arrived on Wednesday at the Mediterranean island of Mallorca, forcing the closure of highways and schools.

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Mexico City, Mar 10 (EFE).- Twenty-five photographs at an exhibition in this capital commemorate the 94th anniversary of the invasion by troops led by Revolutionary commander Pancho Villa and the attack on the U.S. army fort at Columbus, New Mexico.

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Strasbourg, France, Mar 10 (EFE).- All political parties within the European Parliament here on Wednesday condemned the death of Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo and all but the left demanded that Havana immediately release all its political prisoners.

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La Paz, Mar 10 (EFE).- Residents of a rural community in central Bolivia burned three bars and the house of a man who allegedly raped and killed a 4-year-old girl, Bolivian media reported Wednesday.

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Mexico City, Mar 10 (EFE).- Relatives of the 16 people, the majority of them students, massacred in January in the border city of Juarez have called on the Senate to create a special committee to investigate the killings and restore order to Mexico's most violent city.

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Monterrey, Mexico, Mar 10 (EFE).- Mexican marines seized three buildings in this northern city where criminals allegedly linked to drug traffickers made illegal copies of music, films and computer software, the military said.

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Geneva, Mar 10 (EFE).- Last month's magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile cost insurance companies between 2.92 billion euros ($4 billion) and 5.15 billion euros ($7 billion), Swiss Reinsurance Co. said Wednesday.

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Bogota, Mar 10 (EFE).- At least two suspected Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrillas were killed in the bombing of a rebel camp in the jungle province of Guaviare, the air force said.

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Madrid, Mar 10 (EFE).- Spanish writer Jordi Sierra i Fabra won the El Barco de Vapor Children's Literature Prize, which is awarded by publishing house SM, for "Historia de un segundo."

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Mexico City, Mar 10 (EFE).- Police arrested two Mexicans and two Colombians, who were carrying nearly $3 million in cash and are suspected of belonging to Colombia's Norte del Valle drug cartel, in an operation in Mexico City, Federal Police drug enforcement division chief Ramon Pequeño Garcia said.

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Madrid, Mar 10 (EFE).- Spanish aid worker Alicia Gamez, who was kidnapped last November in Mauritania by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, was released on Wednesday, Spanish officials said.

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Caracas, Mar 9 (EFE).- The Venezuelan government on Tuesday seized for 90 days the Santa Elena sugar mill, which is holding in its warehouses 4,000 tons of the product, Trade Minister Richard Canan said.

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Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Mar 9 (EFE).- A gunbattle Tuesday among inmates at a prison in northern Mexico left 5 people dead and 14 wounded, the Chihuahua state Public Safety Office told Efe.

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Mexico City, Mar 9 (EFE).- Mexican soldiers found and dismantled a methamphetamine lab in the western state of Michoacan, seizing 300 kilograms of crystal meth and a ton of ephedrine, the defense department said Tuesday.

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Washington, Mar 9 (EFE).- Dora the Explorer, the famous bilingual character on Nickelodeon television, will be the new spokesperson for the 2010 Census who will try to make Hispanic families see the importance of getting their kiddies counted so as not to miss this "historic opportunity."

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Brasilia, Mar 9 (EFE).- Brazil says it is open to alternatives to the imposition of trade sanctions on the United States in retaliation for Washington's subsidies to domestic cotton producers.

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Madrid, Mar 9 (EFE).- Curtains, tablecloths, clothing and an immigrant's residency papers are among the objects bearing messages of peace and unity that make up the "Archive of Mourning," a collection of more than 70,000 pieces with which Spain commemorates the victims of the March 11, 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid.

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