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Correa wins re-election but faces difficult economic climate
Lumbisi
1. Ecuadorean President, Rafael Correa being greeted at a school in a village where 5 children died last week while playing in a river
2. Various of Correa consoling and speaking to the relatives of some of those children who...
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Peru - Leader of guerrillas gives interview
The leader of the guerrillas holding 72 hostages in Lima on Tuesday (04-03) rejected an offer of asylum for the guerillas in Cuba, made by Cuba's president Fidel Castro.
Residency exteriors;
sounds of the guerrillas training inside,...
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Parliament debate whether to grant the president extraordinary powers to tackle recession
1. Exteriors of Congress
2. Interiors of Congress with debate
3. Vote board showing vote passed
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4. Economics Minister Domingo Cavallo
5. President Fernando De la Rua
6. Various of Argentinian industry
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jorge...
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EL SALVADOR: POPE TO VISIT EL SALVADOR FOR A SECOND TIME
Spanish/Nat
Pope John Paul II is coming to El Salvador for the second time and Salvadorans are waiting with open arms.
Preparations are underway in the capital for next month's visit- the Pope's first trip to the country since the...
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GUATEMALA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: REACTIONS (2)
Spanish/Nat
There have been mixed reactions in the Guatemalan capital following the convincing victory by Alfonso Portillo in Sunday's presidential elections.
Portillo, an admitted killer and friend of a former dictator in the country's...
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GERMANY: MRTA CONDEMNS MILITARY ACTION TO END HOSTAGE CRISIS
Spanish/Nat
The MRTA has condemned the military action that resulted in the death of all the rebel captors at the Japanese Ambassador's residence in Lima.
Isaac Velazco, the MRTA's international spokesman, said the blood spilled will...
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CUBA: HAVANA: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
Spanish/Nat
Cubans are going to the polls Sunday in country-wide municipal elections held every two and a-half years.
More independent candidates are taking part in the race than ever before.
But exiled opposition groups in Miami are...
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SYND 29 5 77 SPANISH ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN MADRID
Spanish election campaign in Madrid.
1. gv crowd at election rally2. ms Joze Maria de Areilza speaks SOUNDBITE (Spanish)3. gv pan crowd applauding4. mcu Joaquin Ruiz-Gimenez speaks SOUNDBITE (Spanish)5. ms Areilza applauds 6. gv pan...
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VENEZUELA: CARACAS: FINAL PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR POPE'S VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Final preparations are now underway for the Pope's forthcoming visit to Venezuela.
Pope John Paul II will be visiting Venezuela in February as part of a Latin American tour which will also take him to El Salvador, Guatemala...
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18th century treasure hunt
1. Mid-shot of church office records
2. Church records dating back to 1641 in office
3. Various close-shots of handwritten documents
4. Adelaida Leopo showing documents
5. Magnifying glass held to document to identify the name Manso de...
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ARGENTINA: PROTESTS FOLLOWING EMILIO MASSERA COURT APPEARANCE
Spanish/Nat
Demonstrations broke out in Buenos Aires on Friday following the court appearance of Emilio Massera - a former Admiral of the navy responsible for many deaths under Argentina's 1976-1983 military regime.
Massera was called to...
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Protests in Caracas and New York against Chavez's constitutional reform
Caracas, Venezuela
1. Pan of anti-Chavez demonstration
2. Zoom in on demonstrator with painted face wearing a headband with "Liberty" (in Spanish), her sunglasses have words (in Spanish) "Long live liberty" across lenses, she is holding...
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Chavez says he 'salutes' Syrian President Bashar Assad
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday that he saluted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the people of Syria for "resisting an imperialist aggression."
He also said that he will evaluate a proposal to join in a team of...
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ARGENTINA: MOTHERS OF PLAZA DE MAYO 'S LITERARY CAFE
Spanish/Nat
Twenty years ago, the 'Madres of the disappeared' started circling the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, holding photographs of the children they lost during the Argentinean dirty war.
The Madres' efforts since have brought...
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Bolivian President Morales meets Peruvian president-elect Humala
1. Wide of presidential palace
2. Mid of Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala arriving at the presidential palace
3. Wide of Humala sitting next to Bolivian President Evo Morales
4. Mid of Humala shaking hands with Morales
5. Mid of...
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+4:3 Latin American indigenous groups celebrate UN International Indigenous Day
Indigenous people across Latin America celebrated the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on Thursday.
In a ceremony at the Saviour of the World Plaza in San Salvador, Salvador's indigenous people marked the day with...
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Residentes de Abi Barik, en el nordeste de Afganistan, buscan sobrevivientes y esperan ayuda.
Residentes del pueblo de Abi Barik en Afganistan buscaban a sobrevivientes en el area donde un alud sepulto cientos de casas.
Unas 700 familias fueron desplazadas por el torrente de lodo que se precipito sobre su pueblo el...
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AP interview with Morales, speech at annual OAS permanent council meeting
19 November 2008
1. Wide of meeting for Organisation of American States, OAS Secretary Jose Miguel Insulza and Bolivian President Evo Morales (right) sitting down
2. Mid of Morales
3. Wide of meeting
AP Television
18 November 2008
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Leftist protesters set buildings ablaze in embattled city
1. Police cars convoy
2. Various of building, car damage by fire
3. Various of police arresting people on streets
4. Various of building damaged by fire
5. Mid of Governor of Oaxaca Ulises Ruiz waking in burned building
6. Wide of...
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Cuban dissidents urge Ibero-American summit to discuss human rights
1. Various of exterior of dissident house
2. Various of dissidents inside
3. Various cutaways of media
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Leonardo Bruzon, Director of 24 February Human Rights Movement:
"We are going to denounce the Castro regime...
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SYND 17/11/72 JUAN PERON PRESS CONFERENCE
General Juan Peron, the former Argentine dictator, speaking before a conference of television and radio reporters in Rome before returning to Argentina.
1. ws Peron arrives for press conference
2. ws journalists
SOUNDBITE: Spanish
3. ms...
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COLOMBIA: PRESIDENT ANDRES PASTRANA FACES CRITICISM
Spanish/Nat
Half way though his four-year term in office, Colombian President Andres Pastrana faces heavy criticism over his handling of the economy and the country's faltering peace process.
Colombia in the grip of its worst economic...
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NICARAGUA: COUNTRY APPEARS DIVIDED ON EVE OF ELECTIONS
Spanish/Nat
On the eve of Sunday's presidential elections in Nicaragua, the country looks as divided as it's ever been.
The conservative and left-wing rivals for the top job have depicted the vote as a choice between the war-torn...
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NICARAGUA: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DETERMINED TO SEEK OFFICE
Spanish/Nat
Days after escaping unharmed from an assassination attempt, Nicaraguan presidential candidate Arnoldo Aleman has said he is now more determined than ever to seek office.
In his first interview since the shooting, he called...