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Caribbean and Latin American leaders have agreed to create a new regional bloc that excludes the US and Canada.

Cuban President Castro with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez

Wrapping up a two-day summit of 32 leaders in Cancun on Tuesday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared that the new bloc “must as a priority push for regional integration and globally project a Latin American and Caribbean identity.”

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El Salvador alleges involvement in human smuggling and prostitution ring

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – The former legal adviser to a group of American missionaries jailed in Haiti on child kidnapping charges is now the focus of a manhunt in the Dominican Republic.

Dominican police and U.S. agents are seeking to detain Jorge Puello, who acknowledged Monday that he is wanted in El Salvador for alleged involvement in a human smuggling ring in the Central American country.

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) – An official says the Dominican man giving legal advice to 10 Americans detained in Haiti on child-kidnapping charges has no license to practice law in his home country.

Jorge Puello operates a consulting and law practice in Santo Domingo. He has been spokesman for the American Baptists charged with child kidnapping after they tried to take 33 children out of the country without authorization.

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Angelina Jolie stands with doctors and nurses at Dario Contreras Trauma Center in Santo Domingo where the actress visited earthquake victims from neighboring country, Haiti.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has met with hospitalized Haitian earthquake victims in the Dominican Republic.

Dario Manon is a spokesman for the Dario Contrera Hospital in the capital of Santo Domingo, where dozens of survivors of the Jan. 12 earthquake in neighboring Haiti are receiving medical help.

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An unconfirmed report by the Russian Northern Fleets says the Haiti earthquake was caused by a flawed US Navy ‘earthquake weapons’ test before the weapons could be utilized against Iran.

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By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS — The Dominican Republic is sending 150 troops to help secure a critical land route in Haiti used to deliver supplies to tens of thousands of earthquake survivors, the United Nations announced Thursday.

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It is five days since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, spreading fear and misery across an already fragile nation.

After a relatively slow start, US forces appear to be taking the lead in organising international aid efforts on the ground.

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BY Daniel Shoer Roth
dshoer@herald.com

JIMANI, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – Dalina Joseph closed her eyes slowly. Her cousins splashed her face with water to wake her, but she didn’t react. She seemed to be dead. She shouldn’t have passed away, now that she was finally in a hospital, if she hadn’t died during the three days she was buried under the rubble.

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