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• Venezuela?s President Scorned by Bitter Political Foe: His Ex-Wife
  President Hugo Chávez?s ex-wife, Marisabel Rodríguez, is a political figure here as well, making a custody dispute more fodder for the country?s polarized politics.
  
  


• Manta Journal: Ecuador Opposes Outpost in American War on Drugs
  To Ecuadoreans the American base in Manta, Ecuador, is a flash point in a regional debate over the limits of American power in Latin America.
  
  


• Caught in a Swirl of Drug Violence, Mexico Vows to Fight Back
  From Tamaulipas State, the site of repeated clashes between drug dealers and federal police, President Felipe Calderón said that his administration would not be intimidated.
  
  


• Illegal Farm Workers Get Health Care in Shadows
  Health care for many migrant workers is provided by a parallel system of spiritual healers and home remedies.
  
  


• Business Briefing | Deals: Canada Blocks U.S. Takeover of a Technology Firm
  Canada confirmed its decision to block an American company?s takeover of the space and satellite division of MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates, Canada?s leading space technology firm.
  
  


• World Briefing | Americas: Argentina: Farmers Revive Blockade to Protest Tax
  Thousands of farmers have taken to the picket lines, blocking hundreds of roads and impeding exports of grains in a renewed strike against government agricultural policies.
  
  


• Gunmen Kill Chief of Mexico?s Police
  Edgar Millán Gómez was killed Thursday in the most brazen attack so far in the year-and-a-half-old struggle between the government and organized crime gangs.
  
  


• Argentine Farmers Cut Off Exports
  Farmers in Argentina began cutting off grain exports on Thursday after the breakdown of talks to resolve a conflict over government agricultural policies.
  
  


• Robert Vesco, ?70s Financier, Is Dead at 71
  The death of the financier Robert L. Vesco, confirmed by documents and interviews, has closed the books on one of Washington?s longest and most prominent fugitive hunts.
  
  


• Acquittal in Nun?s Killing Provokes Outcry in Brazil
  Human rights advocates and the Brazilian government criticized the acquittal of a man accused of being behind the murder of an American Roman Catholic nun in the Brazilian Amazon forest.