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The US Treasury Department asked Michael Moore to explain himself.

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President Hugo Chavez’s government took over Venezuela’s last remaining privately run oil fields Tuesday, intensifying a decisive struggle with Big Oil over one of the world’s most lucrative deposits.
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President Hugo Chavez announced Monday he would formally pull Venezuela out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, a largely symbolic move because the nation has already paid off its debts to the lending institutions.
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Money sent home by Latin American migrant laborers now exceeds direct foreign investment and foreign aid to Latin America.
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President Bush was touring Central and South America. At a news conference in Brazil he said,

My trip is to explain as clearly as I can that our nation is generous and compassionate.”

Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, was also on tour. Speaking to a crowd in Uruguay he said,

“The little imperial gentleman from the north must be across the river by now. Let’s send him a big shout: ‘Gringo go home!’”

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In Mexico, at least 100,000 people packed Mexico City’s central square Monday to mark the launch of a parallel government led by defeated Presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
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As election officials finished the final vote tallies in Nicaragua on Tuesday and his leading opponent conceded defeat, Daniel Ortega, the onetime cold-war nemesis of the United States, was assured of winning the presidency here and fulfilling his 16-year struggle to regain power.
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The State Department has indicated it is not going to press the Mexican government over the murder of American journalist Brad Will. He was shot dead on Friday by Mexican gunmen tied to the government.
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The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez.
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Hundreds of federal riot police officers and soldiers took up positions outside this besieged tourist city in southern Mexico over the weekend. President Vicente Fox, in his final month in office, on Saturday ordered federal troops in after three people, including a New York photographer, were killed in Oaxaca the evening before.
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Panama voted to expand the Panama canal.
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President Bush signed a law to build a border fence along the US-Mexico border. The fence will be hundreds of miles long and cost about 6 billion dollars. “It’s what the people of this country want,” Bush said.
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Felipe Calderon was declared president-elect Tuesday after two months of uncertainty, but his ability to rule effectively remained in doubt as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador refused to recognize the victory and vowed to lead a parallel leftist government from the streets.
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The Bush administration faced new accusations its seeking regime change in Venezuela. Documents obtained by the Associated Press show the US Agency for International Development – USAID – has given more than twenty six million dollars to opponents of President Hugo Chavez in the last four years. USAID released copies of more than one hundred contracts with the groups – but hid the names of about half of them. Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, said:

“This indicates there is a great deal of money, a great deal of concern to oust or neutralise Chávez. The US is waging diplomatic warfare against Venezuela.”

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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office said Friday that he turned down a White House request to more than double the number of California National Guard troops that will be deployed to the border.
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The Senate has voted to build a 370 mile fence along parts of the Mexico border to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro said he would offer his resignation if the United States, can prove that he has a huge personal fortune as claimed by Forbes magazine.
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President Bush has called for 6,000 National Guard troops to be deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border.

“The United States must secure its borders,” he said.
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Mexico is to reconsider a drug law that would have permitted the possession of small quantities of hard drugs, after the US called it stupid.
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Tens of thousands gathered in Argentina near the Uruguay border in what has been called the country’s largest environmentalist rally ever. The Argentine demonstrators called on Uruguay to stop construction of two paper mills on the side of a river that separates the two countries. The Argentine government has accused Uruguay of breaking international environmental treaties to protect waterways. The World Bank has backed the construction of the mills.
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