JOHN RICE

Associated Press Writer
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Flu exposes flaws in Mexico's health care system

Mexicans will do almost anything to avoid a public hospital emergency room, where ailing patients may languish for hours slumped on cracked linoleum floors that smell of sweat, sickness and pine-scented disinfectant.

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Mexican director Servando Gonzalez dies at 85

Servando Gonzalez Hernandez rose from gofer at a Mexican film studio to become a director in Hollywood. But he may be most remembered in Mexico for film that nobody ever saw.

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Castro Legacy Holds Despite Resignation

Fidel Castro may have resigned as Cuba's president, but he remains a towering figure, loved and hated across continents. Long after he ditched his cigar and traded military fatigues for tracksuits, Castro remains both a Cold War icon and a model of resistance to the world's lone superpower.

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Mexico Issues Warrant for Missing Marine

Mexican officials have issued an arrest warrant for a U.S. Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape, a U.S. Embassy official said Tuesday.

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Bourdais Wins Final Race in Champ Car

Sebastien Bourdais went out a winner as well as a champion in his final Champ Car race, overcoming a penalty and a lead-trimming yellow flag to win the Mexican Grand Prix before heading off to Formula One.

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Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software

Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire — Microsoft Corp. — by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.

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Cuban Official Defends Internet Controls

A senior Cuban official has defended the country's Internet restrictions as a response to U.S. aggression and called for controlling "the wild colt of new technologies."

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Old War Haunts Debate Between Mexico, U.S.

More than 1 million migrants flood into the United States each year across a border cutting straight through what once was Mexican territory, a touch of history that haunts the immigration debate 158 years after the land changed hands.

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