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CARACAS, Venezuela – As university students clashed with the police in this country last May, attention focused not just on their demands to hold elections without government meddling but also on the names of the two leaders organizing the protests: Nixon Moreno and Stalin Gonz
JUNIN, Peru — In a small storefront on a bleak, wind-swept Andean plateau, Timotea Cordova offers an oxygen-deprived visitor a traditional elixir to ward off the breathless effect of the high altitude.
For hundreds of years, Quechua Indians have grown maca, the frost-resistant root that thrives in these frigid Andean highlands, to boost stamina and sex [...]
"The President does not know him. Nor does the President recall ever meeting him." – White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan – January 2006.
"I frankly don’t even remember having my picture taken with the guy. I don’t know him."
– George W. Bush on ABC News – January [...]