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	<title>The Americas Post</title>
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	<description>The Axis of the Americas: politics, scurity, economics</description>
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		<title>President Obama extended sanctions against the &#8220;castrist&#8221; hostile regime in Cuba.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday announced the extension of  sanctions on Cuba under the Trading With the Enemy Act, a move aimed at  continuing the economic, trade and financial blockade of the island, informed today the castrist news agency Prensa Latina.
The White House said in a press release that Obama sent a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2356/president-obama-extended-sanctions-against-the-castrist-hostile-regime-in-cuba/</link>
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		<title>ETA terrorists suspend offensive armed actions in Spain.&#8221;Insufficient&#8221; says Madrid.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Armed Basque separatist terrorist group Eta says it will not &#8220;carry out armed actions&#8221; in its campaign for independence.
In a video obtained exclusively by the BBC, the group said it  took the decision several months ago &#8220;to put in motion a democratic  process&#8221;.
The Basque interior minister called the statement  &#8220;insufficient&#8221;. Madrid has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2353/eta-terrorists-suspend-offensive-armed-actions-in-spain-insufficient-says-madrid/</link>
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		<title>Analysis: since 2009 Mexican Army exceeded goals capturing thousands of criminals, equipment and tons of drugs.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The  Mexican army has captured &#8211; since September 2009 to date -. about 8361 drug  traffickers, including several &#8220;drug lords&#8221;. They also captured  seized 2212 tons of drugs , according to last year&#8217;s balance sheet released last wednesday by the  National Defense Secretariat (Sedena).
In  a press conference, the Director of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2350/analysis-since-2009-mexican-army-exceeded-goals-capturing-thousands-of-criminals-equipment-and-tons-of-drugs/</link>
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		<title>Colombia´s new President Santos step up actions against terrorists FARC and ELN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, is vowing to step up  his predecessor&#8217;s military crackdown against leftist rebels, following  an attack this week that left 14 police officers dead.
President  Santos met Friday with top generals in the southern state of Caqueta,  where the officers were killed in a roadside bomb [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2347/colombia%c2%b4s-new-president-santos-step-up-actions-against-terroorists-farc-and-eln/</link>
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		<title>White Collar Crime: former guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo on trial for stealing public funds.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo has  gone on trial on charges of embezzling millions of dollars in public  funds between 2000 and 2004.
Mr Portillo, 58, is also wanted in the US for allegedly embezzling foreign donations for education projects.
During his time in office, Mr Portillo promised to campaign against corruption and impunity in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2344/white-collar-crime-former-guatemalan-president-alfonso-portillo-on-trial-for-stealing-public-funds/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Narco drones&#8221; puts all U.S. border efforts in question.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The  Public Security Secretariat (SSP) of Mexico announced yesterday  that  the cartels have adopted a new way of sending cocaine to the U.S.:  by  ultralight unmmaned planes. Each plane weighs about one hundred  pounds and can carry a hundred kilograms of drugs. According  to  Francisco González, Undersecretary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2338/narco-drones-puts-all-u-s-border-efforts-in-question/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;La Barbie&#8221; accused Joaquin &#8220;Chapo&#8221; Guzman and the cartel of Sinaloa for starting the bloody cartel drug war in Mexico.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In  a statement to the Mexican police, the drug lord Edgar Valdez  Villarreal, aka &#8220;La Barbie&#8221;, arrested on Monday revealed details of the origin of the war between cartels in Mexico. He  said the widespread confrontation between criminal gangs began because  of the war for the control of illegal drug trafficking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2337/la-barbie-accused-joaquin-chapo-guzman-and-the-cartel-of-sinaloa-for-starting-the-bloody-cartel-drug-war-in-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Major international drug kingpin arrested in Rio de Janeiro.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro &#8211;  the Police Precinct 21 ( area of Bonsucesso) presented on Thursday (September 2nd) the alleged criminal Valdemar  Junior Kerkhoff, 28, that was arrested on the morning of Wednesday (1st) in area of Ponta  Pora .  Police  said the suspect had led a scheme to supply the major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2335/major-international-drug-kingpin-arrested-in-rio-de-janeiro/</link>
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		<title>Cuban smugglers working with drug cartels abducted six cubans, lately rescued.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who  had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on  the nation&#8217;s Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency  reported Wednesday.
The abductors, who were not apprehended in  Tuesday night&#8217;s rescue, were seeking between $8,000 and $10,000 from  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2333/cuban-smugglers-working-with-drug-cartels-abducted-six-cubans-lately-rescued/</link>
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		<title>Terrorist threats: U.S. supports more research on detection of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HAWTHORNE, Calif., Aug. 31  &#8212; Research into detecting nuclear  and other materials with potential for use in weapons of mass  destruction received more pledges of government support after a  Californian security electronics firm received contracts worth up to $12  million for developing new detection devices and techniques, says a report of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theamericaspostes.com/2330/terrorist-threats-u-s-supports-more-research-on-detection-of-weapons-of-mass-destruction-wmd/</link>
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