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    <title>Chinese lending to Latin America: Flexible friends | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-11T10:55:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of the money China has lent in the region since 2005, 85% has gone to infrastructure, energy and mining]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.confidencial.com.ni/articulo/16423/maduro-recaba-apoyos-en-china-y-rusia">
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    <dc:date>2014-03-05T11:56:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[El Gobierno del presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, recabó apoyos económicos y políticos de China y Rusia, informó el vicepresidente de asuntos económicos y ministro de Petróleo y Minas, Rafael Ramírez, y el mismo jefe de Estado]]></description>
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    <title>El Ejército Argentino cambiará nuevamente su uniforme</title>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[La china Norinco suministrará el nuevo equipamiento por cerca de 16 millones de dólares]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=1485997&amp;CategoryId=10717">
    <title>Latin American Herald Tribune - Chinese Loans to Venezuela Exceed $40 Billion</title>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/09/19/a-new-dawn-for-china-mexico-relations/?">
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[China has long been looking at prospects across Latin America but Mexico had largely been absent from its plans. Closer presidential ties seem to have spurred things along]]></description>
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    <title>Venezuelan president Maduro to visit China | GlobalPost</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-19T18:48:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday announced that he will visit China between September 21-24 to discuss bilateral business and to work on what he touted as "new geopolitics."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.confidencial.com.ni/articulo/13289/ortega-wang-record-por-inconstitucional">
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[La secretaría de la Corte Suprema de Justicia (CSJ) recibió en total 32 recursos de inconstitucionalidad en contra de la ley 840 del ‘Gran Canal’ Interoceánico, batiendo el récord ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://africa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-07/19/content_16796439.htm">
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<item rdf:about="http://www.elfaro.net/es/201306/internacionales/12409/">
    <title>La conspiración del ‘Gran Canal de Nicaragua’ - El Faro</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-18T10:55:55+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.elfaro.net/es/201306/internacionales/12368/">
    <title>Pronostican una catástrofe ambiental si se construye el ‘Canal de Nicaragua’ - El Faro</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-17T10:37:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Conservacionistas nicaragüenses denunciaron este viernes que la construcción del canal interoceánico con el que Nicaragua pretende competir con el Canal de Panamá, aprobada por el Congreso este jueves, provocará una catástrofe ecológica]]></description>
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    <title>Nicaragua canal project is approved despite few details - latimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-17T09:30:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Critics accuse President Daniel Ortega of pushing through the sea-to-sea Nicaragua canal project to benefit his family and inner circle]]></description>
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    <title>Nicaragua Rushes On for Canal Deal With Chinese - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-11T10:45:17+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many outside observers and Ortega opponents point out that nearly every key detail of the project remains a mystery, from the sources of its funding to Nicaragua's share of the profits to the route it would take]]></description>
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    <title>U.S. running out of time to reset Latin American economic approach - The Globe and Mail</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-10T09:56:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The Economist explains: Why has China snubbed Cuba and Venezuela? | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-07T09:31:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Visits to Cuba and Venezuela might well have raised distracting questions when Mr Xi meets Barack Obama in Southern California on June 7th, and neither socialist government was likely to express publicly any offence]]></description>
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    <title>Xi's Costa Rican Visit Helps China Bind Ties - WSJ.com</title>
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    <title>China Gives Costa Rica $900M Credit for Refinery - ABC News</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-04T09:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Presidente de China visita una Centroamérica que aún tiene fuertes lazos con Taiwán - El Faro</title>
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    <title>China president makes first ever visit to Trinidad | www.ajc.com</title>
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    <title>Hopes of thaw as Peña Nieto heads to China - FT.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-05T10:08:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>China and Brazil to sign trade deal for local currency at summit of BRICS nations - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-26T10:42:19+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/03/11/guest-post-china-will-be-friendly-but-neutral-to-successor-of-chavez/">
    <title>Guest post: China will be “friendly but neutral” to successor of Chávez | beyondbrics</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-12T09:41:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[China’s preferred choice will be to wait and see. It knows that its substantial investments and its oil deals, while obviously a risk, are equally of considerable importance to any Venezuelan government]]></description>
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    <title>China releva valiosa información minera de Venezuela | Plaza Pública</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-27T12:13:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[El gobierno de Venezuela negoció la prospección y mapeo de las reservas mineras del país con una firma estatal de China, uno de los mayores consumidores de materias primas del mundo, mediante un convenio que la oposición y expertos cuestionan]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/01/30/if_mexico_is_the_new_china_what_does_mexico_think_of_china">
    <title>If Mexico is the new China, what does Mexico think of China? | FP Passport</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-31T11:58:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mexico's leaders sometimes seem to display an odd inferiority complex about Chinese growth despite the fact that Mexicans are by and large wealthier and enjoy a far higher quality of life]]></description>
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    <title>Chavez Cancer Freezes Venezuela's Overseas Oil Funding: Energy - Bloomberg</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-25T10:21:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Venezuela’s $100 billion oil industry is seeing the first drop in funding in five years from some of its closest partners, as concern mounts President Hugo Chavez’s battle with cancer is creating a political vacuum]]></description>
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    <title>Inter-American Dialogue | Publication</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-13T22:29:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=32&amp;pubID=3174</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[China’s slowing growth, its proposed “economic transformation,” and its commitment to deeper economic integration with Latin America are changing the landscape of Sino-Latin economic engagement]]></description>
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    <title>Learning the Ropes | Americas Quarterly</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-12T21:50:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://americasquarterly.org/learning-the-ropes</link>
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    <title>China’s Economic Role in Latin America | LatIntelligence</title>
    <dc:date>2012-10-29T10:44:11+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.eldeber.com.bo/ministro-de-defensa-niega-haber-realizado-turismo-en-china/121023202108">
    <title>Ministro de Defensa niega haber realizado &quot;turismo&quot; en China</title>
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    <link>http://www.eldeber.com.bo/ministro-de-defensa-niega-haber-realizado-turismo-en-china/121023202108</link>
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