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During the meeting he presented an initiative developed by Caribbean Area Division VAL Josue Diaz and Caribbean Area Division Director Alejandro DeLaCampa to urge the development of a permanent VAL position for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebels were trying to retake a strategic mountain area near the Caribbean coast when they were hit.
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Images of the bombardment showed a swathe of jungle flattened and blackened, where the planes of the Colombian air force had bombed a Farc camp in the Montes de Maria area, in the Caribbean province of Bolivar.
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) forecast the whole area would slow to 3.2% in 2012, down from 4.3% last year.
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The clouds of dust have spread across a wide area, causing flights to several Caribbean destinations to be cancelled.
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The Farc guerrillas were seeking to re-establish their presence in the area, which overlooks the city of Cartagena on the Caribbean coast, officials said.
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Then his government joined the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA), Venezuela's answer to the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas.
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In addition, we are pushing for a Free Trade Area of the Americas that will open more markets with Mercosur and the Caribbean, too.
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She's going to five in the next year: one in the Caribbean, one in Florida, one in Massachusetts and two close to home in the New York area.
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And no wonder: Last year, more than 16 million sun seekers flocked to the area, which reaches as far north as the Bahamas and as far south as Guyana, according the Caribbean Tourism Organization, a public-private development group.
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