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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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Santa Clara, Cuba, Mar 9 (EFE).- Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who has been on a hunger strike for the past 14 days, on Tuesday asked President Raul Castro to make a "humanitarian gesture" in favor of ailing political prisoners.

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Washington, Mar 9 (EFE).- Experts, former officials and some university chancellors appealed here Tuesday to U.S. President Barack Obama to end restrictions "immediately" on academic, cultural, sports and scientific exchanges with Cuba.

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Buenos Aires, Mar 9 (EFE).- Argentine oil company YPF said Tuesday that it plans to import 50 million liters (13.2 million gallons) of gasoline as demand outstrips supply in the South American nation.

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Buenos Aires, Mar 9 (EFE).- A Russian-owned company in the coming weeks will begin production of caviar in the northwestern Argentine province of La Rioja, a spokesman for the regional government told Efe on Tuesday.

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Caracas, Mar 9 (EFE).- At least six inmates died and 15 were injured in a riot at Yare I prison in central Venezuela, the head of the national prisons service said Tuesday.

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Bogota, Mar 9 (EFE).- Colombian, U.S., Panamanian and Honduran authorities seized more than two tons of cocaine off Panama and Honduras, and arrested eight suspects, a high-level Colombian drug enforcement official said Tuesday.

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Rio de Janeiro, Mar 9 (EFE).- Brazil will bring in a grain harvest of 145.1 million tons this year, a volume very close to the record 145.8 million tons gathered in 2008, the government said Monday.

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Santiago, Mar 9 (EFE).- Chilean police have recovered roughly $3 million worth of products that looters stole in the southern city of Concepcion and neighboring towns after the Feb. 27 earthquake, authorities said Tuesday.

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Havana, Mar 9 (EFE).- President Raul Castro named Brig. Gen. Ramon Martinez to head Cuba's Civil Aviation Institute, replacing Maj. Gen. Rogelio Acevedo, state media said Tuesday.

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Mexico City, Mar 9 (EFE).- Photographer Cesar Saldivar is honoring the hundreds of women murdered in the border city of Juarez with an exhibition, titled "Perder el norte" (Losing the North), that just opened in Mexico City.

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Bogota, Mar 9 (EFE).- President Alvaro Uribe's Social Party of National Unity chose Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos as its standard-bearer in Colombia's May 30 presidential election.

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Tegucigalpa, Mar 9 (EFE).- Police seized 33.6 million pseudoephedrine tablets, the largest quantity of the substance ever confiscated in Honduras, but no arrests were made, Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said.

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Mexico City, Mar 9 (EFE).- Two literary pieces written in Nahuatl and attributed to Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, which have been translated by experts, preserve the Indian cult of mountains in a disguised language, ethnohistory specialist Margarita Loera said.

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