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Nightline Daily Line, Jan. 2: Jacob Ostreicher Update
ET: UPDATE: "Nightline" has been following the case of Jacob Ostreicher, an American businessman who has sat in a Bolivian prison, uncharged, for over a year. Last month, Ostreicher was released and placed under house arrest. Watch "Nightline
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For US Man Jailed in Bolivia Uncharged for 580 Days, Nightmare Continues
grandfather of 11, was arrested in Bolivia and detained for 580 days in strangest prisons in the world. Bolivian authorities accused him of being a money launderer involved in Bolivia 's vast drug business in the first harvest and 200 Bolivian employees. Then in 2011
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Venezuela VP in Cuba to Visit Ailing Chavez
the national government knows." Maduro is the highest ranking Venezuelan official to visit Chavez since the surgery. Bolivian President Evo Morales traveled to Cuba last weekend in a quick trip that only added to the uncertainty surrounding Chavez's
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Bolivia Expropriates Spanish Energy Subsidiaries
Empresa de Electricidad de La Paz (Electropaz) and Empresa In the ceremony at Bolivia 's government palace equitable" in the regions of La Paz and Oruro. Soldiers energy transmission in Bolivia . In his first year in office in 2006, the Bolivian president nationalized
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7 Bolivian Officials Arrested, Accused of Extorting Jailed American Man
Seven Bolivian government officials were 18 months, according to Bolivia 's interior minister. Jacob innocence, has long said that Bolivian officials targeted him for press conference on Tuesday, Bolivia 's Interior Minister Carlos
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Paul Frampton: Court in Argentina Convicts UNC Professor of Drug Smuggling
South America to meet with a bikini model but ended up getting caught in what they call a "honey trap." Frampton flew to Bolivia from North Carolina earlier this year after communicating with someone who claimed to be Denise Milani, winner of Miss
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Colombian FARC Rebels Declare Ceasefire and Other Top News From Latin America
candidate in the 2018 elections. Bolivian Community Will Punish Thieves mountain city of El Alto, Bolivia , the National Council for generated huge controversy in Bolivia , is possible thanks to the jurisdictions" system added to Bolivia 's constitution in 2009 to
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Leapfactor Takes on Enterprise With Cutting-Edge Mobile Apps
Access Point—was set up by Lionel Carrasco, the firm's Bolivian -born CEO, and five co-founders from Latin America hiring developers at R&D centers in Mexico City, Argentina, Bolivia and Uruguay. It expects to have more than 65 employees
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The Latin American Literary Boom: Real or Hype?
the 90s, when authors like Chilean Alberto Fuguet, Argentines Rodrigo Fresán and Juan Forn, Peruvian Jaime Bayly and Bolivian Edmundo Paz Soldán published their first short stories and novels. The world they presented was more embedded in pop
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Latin American Women Earn 17 percent Less than Men and Other Top News From Latin America
questioning his personal wealth, Bolivian President Evo Morales estimated during his time in office. The Bolivian president figures that since personal wealth has increased in Bolivia , after Morales declared that than ten times larger than the Bolivian President's annual wage which
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Pot Referendums in the U.S. Prompt Mexico to Rethink Drug Strategy and Other Top News in Latin America
destabilizing countries, etcetera." Meanwhile, Bolivia 's President Evo Morales, asked Obama to and affected more than a million people. Bolivia Returns 700 Year Old Stolen Mummy to Peru Bolivian authorities returned to Peru a 700-year-old
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Occupy Sandy's Spirit of Solidarity Resonates with Latino Values
Latino immigrants and Occupy Wall Street. Similarly, for the Bolivian activist Diego Ibañez, 24, who helped organize Occupy's said evoking the communal spirit that he first experienced in Bolivia and then with Occupy in New York. "It's a problem that
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Guatemalan Mara Gangs demand Christmas bonuses and Other Top News from Latin America
occurs at a time when the Colombian government and the FARC are undergoing peace talks. Bolivian Government Wants to Clamp Down on Facebook Users The Bolivian government is preparing a law that will target internet users who slander the government
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US Man Jailed in Bolivia Released, Under House Arrest
grandfather of 11, was arrested in bolivia and incarcerated in the prison money launderer, involved in bolivia 's vast drug business. We The scandal has engulfed bolivia . A key player in this drama of rice the first year, 200 bolivian employees, and that, he and
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A Taste of Italy in Bolivia
world but we're here in La Paz Bolivia and across the street ago and state to offer Bolivia and that taste of Italy an Italian who lives in Bolivia . And it is Costa that Kaufman for Nightline in La Paz Bolivia . What will these
a lot of Italian restaurants in the world but we're here in La Paz Bolivia and across the street through their stores -- restaurant that serves something you won't find anywhere else. Call it. Uniquely local flavor.came here as a tourist nineteen years ago and state to offer Bolivia and that taste of Italy. Tonight's dish is -- adopted country. We'll see examples. 5% -- Yup he's cooking pasta made frommobile -- At pool thoughtful. About forty. This is a dish -- Bolivia says chef Marco because you can only find ingredient here. War. At political it is very powerful. Area that's gonna keep me -
2012: The Year in Review
emotional address the president said simply the country has had enough of this kind of bloodshed. Charlotte. Daniel. Bolivia Josephine. Let us find the strength to carry on. And make our country worthy of their memories incredible year. The
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The Tragedy at Sandy Hook, Gun Control Debate, Fiscal Cliff and the News of the Week
currently. she's saying don't things nineteen people in her class. And she's dollar us in. Charlotte. Daniel. Bolivia . Josephine. Catherine. Chase. Jesse. James. Grace. Family. Carolina. Jessica. Benjamin. God has called the home
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Professor Paul Frampton Convicted of Drug Smuggling
apparently left his brains at home when he boarded a plane for bolivia , saying he was planning to rendezvous with a famous bikini believing he would meet the model and boarded a plane to bolivia . Milano never showed up. Frampton was met by a man
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Bolivian President Morales
Now our interview with Bolivian president Evo Morales. I met investment from people who respect Bolivian laws when we welcome them and And just as were singing the Bolivian and Venezuelan national anthems axis of Cuba Venezuela and Bolivia . Where you poking fun. At
Chavez with an official welcoming committee. And just as were singing the Bolivian and Venezuelan national anthems machine guns aren't going off I thought it was an attack but it was really the official welcoming. -- shots from rifles that he lived -- official welcome I welcome. You spoke about the axis of -- Cuba Venezuela and Bolivia . Where you poking fun. At President Bush and and what he defined as the axis of evil. For me it's an axiswanna give us more scholarship -- unanimously. The US government also gives Bolivia for -- end -- let's -- things. Looking at the -- it is only to conspire against our government. The US AIGState Department recently published the list of countries with drug trafficking problems Bolivia was on the list and is vehicle only the responsibility of the US because of drug consumption in America and its borders Bolivia also share in the responsibility. -
Young Bolivians Seek Wealth in Mine
151000. Feet above sea level in the Andes mountains of Bolivia . And this is arguably the most important place in the today thousands of men still these mines with this being Bolivia . The poorest country in South America. There are no mine
told C 151000. Feet above sea level in the Andes mountains of Bolivia . And this is arguably the most important place in the history of the modern world that most people have never heard ofAnd today thousands of men still -- these mines with this being Bolivia . The poorest country in South America. There are no mine safety standards there are no precautions. So the most treacherous heroin working














