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El Salvador: ARENA Wins Elections On March 22, after a bitterly contested presidential campaign that tapped into Salvadorans' memories of the civil war, Tony Saca of the right-wing National...
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...Roberto Bendini removed the portraits of military junta leaders Jorge Rafael Videla and Reynaldo Bignone from a wall honoring former army chiefs...
...Kirchner told military personnel attending the ceremony that "state terrorism is one of the most unjustifiable and bloody forms [of terrorism] that a society can live through...
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...Liberal legislator Guillermo Rivera concurred, believing Zapatero could give priority to social projects rather than the military vision that Aznar pursued when dealing with the Colombian conflict...
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...Saca, a 39-year-old soccer commentator and businessman with no political experience, has promised to preserve El Salvador's close ties with the United States...
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...Jorge Godoy had publicly acknowledged that the ESMA was used to commit "aberrant acts which offend human dignity...
...While Bush has invited Mexico's President Vicente Fox to discuss his guest-worker proposal, the Mexican government is dismayed at its exclusion from the ABC plan...
...Leftist Schafik Handal of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) was a distant second with 36...
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...Kitts agreed to withhold recognition of Haiti's U.S.-installed interim government...
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...Meanwhile, the 73-year-old Handal says the FMLN will continue fighting ARENA policies...
...Earlier, Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel and Foreign Relations Minister Jesis Pdrez said they hoped that with the PSOE they would be able to improve the "sullied relations" between the two countries, which they attributed to the reaction of the Aznar government to the temporary overthrow of Chivez in April 2002...
...Some 63% of El Salvador's 3.4 million registered voters showed up to heavily guarded polls, making it the largest turnout since the end of the war in 1992...
...The price of crossing rose from $500 in 1993 to $2,000 in 2000 for Mexican immigrants and up to $5,500 for Central American immigrants...
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...Several officers protested Kirchner's symbolic action by requesting early retirement...
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...NotiCen Argentina: Human Rights Commemoration President Ndstor Kirchner formally apologized on behalf of the Argentine state on March 24 for the murder and torture of thousands of civilians under the country's 19761983 dictatorship...
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...Saca will also have to confront the country's persistent poverty despite El Salvador's steady economic growth over the past decade...
...The $10 million budget for the Arizona Border Control Initiative (ABC) also includes 200 new border patrol agents...
...Caricom rejected claims by the newly installed prime minister of Haiti, Gerard Latortue, that the people who toppled the democratically elected Aristide were "freedom fighters...
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...While a small elite has benefited from El Salvador's adoption of neoliberal economic policies, 40% of Salvadorans still earn less than $1 a day...
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...Instead of deterring immigrants, critics argue that such crackdowns in the past have only led to an increase in immigrant deaths...
...Some analysts have predicted the party will respond to Handal's loss by shifting its politics toward the center and developing a more moderate platform with a different candidate for the next presidential election in five years...
...Some analysts believe that the PSOE's victory might also lead to a thaw in relations between Cuba and Spain, and that many Latin American immigrants working in Spain could face more sympathetic policies...
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...The timing of the ABC corresponds with a renewed focus on undocumented immigration in Congress this year following the introduction of several different bills to grant legal status to the undocumented, including President Bush's own proposal for a temporary worker program...
...A large crowd of human rights supporters attended the ceremony, including many survivors of torture-at the ESMA and elsewhere--and the parents, children and grandchildren of disappearance victims...
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...Following February's brief, albeit subdued, war of words between Argentina and Spain in which Aznar criticized Argentina's handling of its negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and its multibilliondollar creditors, Kirchner appears eager to begin friendlier relations with Zapatero's government...
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...FMLN television spots reminded voters of ARENA links to paramilitary death squads during the 1980s...
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...In one of its most effective campaign strategies, ARENA told voters that an FMLN victory might lead to the deportation of the 2.5 million Salvadoran immigrants living in the United States who send an estimated $2 billion in remittances home each year...
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...military aid has succeeded in making Colombia a safer country...
...The study reported that deaths from exposure to heat rose from nine in 1994 to 135 in 2000, and the number of drowned immigrants rose from 48 to 92...
...Although remnants of the paramilitary forces left over from the civil war and corrupt police officers have also been implicated in the high homicide rates...
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...With the fall of Aznar, the EU could become a unified bloc of opposition to the Colombian government's hard-line military policies...
...El Salvador: ARENA Wins Elections On March 22, after a bitterly contested presidential campaign that tapped into Salvadorans' memories of the civil war, Tony Saca of the right-wing National Republican Alliance (ARENA) won the presidency with 57% of the vote...
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...He has also pledged to continue implementing neoliberal policies introduced by past ARENA administrations such as privatization, free trade agreements and the conversion of the Salvadoran currency to the U.S...
...government officials aided ARENA's cause by suggesting that the United States might reconsider the 300,000 temporary work visas issued to Salvadoran workers if the FMLN won...
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...It will not send troops to participate in the U.S.-led force currently occupying the country because the UN Security Council denied Caricom's plea to send troops in time to save the Aristide government...
...Ultimately, we find that economic opportunities in the United States and Mexico have a far stronger effect on unauthorized immigration than does heightened enforcement," Reyes said...
...However, Caricom's call for "free and fair elections to ensure a return to constitutional democracy in an acceptable time frame," is an indication that eventually it might be willing to accept the removal of Aristide...
...Uribe and Bush administration officials are now working out details for a Plan Colombia II that would last until 2009, because the original plan is scheduled to expire in September 2005...
...In South America, those changes have become apparent most quickly in Colombia, while in other countries many politicians and analysts are foreseeing future relations with the victorious Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) quite differently than they had under the Aznar government...
...Kirchner told the crowd, "As president of the nation I come to beg forgiveness of the state for the shame of having stayed silent about so many atrocities during 20 years of democracy...
...Caricom officials said the U.S...
...ChAivez praised Zapatero's decision to condemn the "aggression in Iraq," saying "the people speak, break chains...
...Venezuela's President Hugo Chdivez said the PSOE victory sent "many good signals" to Latin America and other parts of the world...
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...Colombian opposition legislator German Navas from the Independent Democratic Pole (PDI) said the socialist victory paves the way to a distinct vision of how to resolve the Colombian conflict...
...The FMLN, which holds 31 of 84 seats in parliament, has vowed to block the ratification of CAFTA...
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...The Bush administration has asked Congress to authorize the expansion of the U.S...
...Last year, a record high of at least 151 immigrants died in the Arizona desert...
...Chilean President Ricardo Lagos said the triumph of the socialists would open a "new era" in Spain's foreign policy...
...In a campaign criticized by some as lacking in substantial political debate, ads from both sides focused on linking their opponents to memories of the civil war...
...The DHS says the measures will deter immigrants from crossing illegally, weaken immigrant smuggling organizations and promote its "mission of anti-terrorism...
...El Salvador's rampant violence will be one of Saca's first challenges when he assumes office on June 1. ARENA blames the maras-gangs with a membership of over 20,000 in a country of 6.5 million-for the high levels of violence...
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