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			<title><![CDATA[Skiing: Come summer, South America beckons]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-trb-skiing-come-summer-south-america-beckons-20130315,0,6921503.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-03-18 07:45:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[With April right around the corner, the ski season will soon be winding down in the West.  Which means most schussers and shredders will be packing away their gear and turning to other sports such as cycling or surfing &ndash;- maybe even golf. 

But come...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Brazilian support for an Argentine pope]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-fg-wn-brazilian-support-for-an-argentine-pope-20130316,0,5193403.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-03-16 08:34:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY &ndash; The pope may be considered by his followers to be head of the universal Catholic Church, but that doesn&rsquo;t stop national feelings from bubbling to the surface when a new pontiff is named. 

Before the conclave this week to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Skulls of alligator kin shed new light on reptiles' murky history]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-sci-sn-alligator-panama-canal-caiman-south-north-america-missing-link-20130304,0,7719516.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-03-04 15:42:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Two skulls found in the Panama Canal Zone shed new light on the migration history of caimans, southern relatives of the alligator &ndash; and also hint that North and South America were much closer together earlier than previously thought. 

The new study...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Villaraigosa planning 9-day trade mission to South America]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-11-09 17:23:40</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Two skulls found in the Panama Canal Zone shed new light on the migration history of caimans, southern relatives of the alligator &ndash; and also hint that North and South America were much closer together earlier than previously thought. 

The new study...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Brazil finally ready to confront abuses in past dictatorship]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-sci-sn-alligator-panama-canal-caiman-south-north-america-missing-link-20130304,0,7719516.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-05 16:44:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Two skulls found in the Panama Canal Zone shed new light on the migration history of caimans, southern relatives of the alligator &ndash; and also hint that North and South America were much closer together earlier than previously thought. 

The new study...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Travel info on world cruises]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-tr-queencruisebox-20120122,0,7756210.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Here is some information from Cruise Lines International Assn. members that offer world or "grand cruises." A few lines based in other countries also offer similar voyages. Most 2012 world cruises started in January, but there may be availability on...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Juan Maria Bordaberry dies at 83; Uruguayan dictator]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-07-18 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Former president-turned-dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry, whose self-coup launched more than a decade of military rule in Uruguay died while under house arrest in the country for leading efforts to eliminate leftist dissent in the 1970s. He was 83....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Review: Juan Gabriel V&#225;squez's 'The Secret History of Costaguana']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-08-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Secret History of Costaguana

A Novel

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Riverhead: 287 pp., $26.95

"The Secret History of Costaguana" is an intricately detailed, audacious reframing of "Nostromo," the classic 1904...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Car sales in Latin America skyrocket]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-04-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Secret History of Costaguana

A Novel

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Riverhead: 287 pp., $26.95

"The Secret History of Costaguana" is an intricately detailed, audacious reframing of "Nostromo," the classic 1904...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[On defense again, Obama claims 'important progress' in Libya war]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-03-26 04:35:29</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Secret History of Costaguana

A Novel

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean

Riverhead: 287 pp., $26.95

"The Secret History of Costaguana" is an intricately detailed, audacious reframing of "Nostromo," the classic 1904...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[100 facts for 100 years of Machu Picchu: Fact 8]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-04-22 09:28:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In July, Machu Picchu, Peru's biggest tourist attraction, will mark its 100th anniversary of rediscovery. Hiram Bingham III, a Yale professor, came upon the vine-covered ruins on July 24, 1911. Here, then, as we lead up to the century mark, are 100-plus...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine's traffic hub]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-11-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African country, with its starry array of remote islands, as a transit point for drug shipments bound for Europe. It hasn't been...]]></description>
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