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Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told the BBC the US should do more to reduce the demand for drugs that is fueling violence in Mexico.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday ordered the expropriation of U.S.-based glass maker Owens-Illinois Inc.’s unit in the South American country.

Not since the days of Jimmy Carter have we seen as craven a U.S. response to a provocation as Chavez’s plan for two 1,200-megawatt nuclear reactors 1,400 miles from our shores.

Russia has agreed to help the regime in Venezuela enter the atomic age by building the country’s first nuclear power plant. Will someone please remind Moscow the Monroe Doctrine has not lapsed?

Proud employees of a small drilling company too remote to have cable television found themselves Wednesday at the center of the world’s biggest news story — but they still had to get the day’s work done.

A significant majority of electricity plants in Venezuela are critical, producing less than half of their capacity. Some do not even produce electricity at all.

So, after eight years of rule under political enemies she once called “ultra-right,” how does Betancourt feel Colombia is doing? As she told the Press Club audience, “We’re walking in the right direction. We’re a better democracy than yesterday.”

Chávez has been developing the program for two years with the collaboration of Iran, a nuclear rogue state.

Latin America’s dictators are losing, and the forces of freedom and progress are winning.

Colombian police have found $29m (£18m; 21m euros) and 17m euros from suspected drug payments in a house in Bogota.