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Mining taxes

Financial Times : Americas [US] (< 1 hour)
Copper's rise to fund Chilean reconstruction

Stable Brazil expected to grow 7% this year

Financial Times : Americas [US] (< 1 hour)
Brazil's economy has settled into a period of more sustainable growth, expanding at a slower rate than the breakneck pace seen in the first quarter while recovering from a sudden slowdown in the second, economists say

Work begins to free Chilean miners

Financial Times : Americas [US] (1 day)
Work began on a 700-metre tunnel down to the refuge where the miners were discovered on August 22

Cocaine's cowboys

Financial Times : Americas [US] (1 day)
Blood and death. Latin America's war against drugs is following a familiar pattern – as are the arguments for and against it. Twenty years ago, Colombia beat down the drug cartels. Now it is Mexico's turn

Time to press on with our plan in Havana

Financial Times : Americas [US] (1 day)
These mooted reforms are welcome, but the Obama administration should still be looking to do much more to help the people of Cuba, writes Christopher Sabatini

Mexico parades 'The Barbie' drugs suspect

Financial Times : Americas [US] (1 day)
Mexican authorities paraded one of the country's most wanted drug trafficking suspects for the cameras, declaring a victory for Felipe Calderón's war on drugs ahead of the president's state-of-the-union address on Wednesday

Chile pushes for mining tax increase

Financial Times : Americas [US] (1 day)
The president sends to Congress a revised bill to increase a key mining tax in a bid to raise $1bn to help fund reconstruction efforts following the devastating earthquake in February

Black arts against Argentine press

Financial Times : Americas [US] (2 days)
The Kirchners, who last year lost their Peronist majority in both houses of Congress, have fallen out with Clarín, the country's leading media group – over both policy and the company's vaulting ambitions

Mexico dismisses 10% of federal police

Financial Times : Americas [US] (2 days)
Authorities confirm that 3,200 officers, who failed even basic competence tests, would lose their jobs as part of the government's latest attempts to improve standards

Top Mexican trafficker captured

Financial Times : Americas [US] (2 days)
Mexican police on Monday arrested one of the country's top drug traffickers in one of the biggest victories for the government since it declared war on organised crime almost four years ago
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