Sat May 9, 2009 3:01 AM EDT
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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Mon Oct 6, 2008 5:01 PM EDT
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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Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:08 PM EST
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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Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:42 AM EST
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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Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:23 PM EST
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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Fri Feb 16, 2007 3:42 PM EST
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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Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:06 AM EST
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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Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:51 PM EDT
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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