Two other women were killed overnight in the town of La Union, in eastern Zacapa province.

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Critics have pointed to the success of Jose Manuel de la Sota, the governor of Cordoba province, who has increased revenues by cutting tax rates and is trying to get better value from public spending.

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Anticipating the storm, about 10, 000 Cubans evacuated Saturday to Cuba's mainland from La Isla de Juventud, or Isle of Youth, a province south of the nation's western end.

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Days before Mr Bouchard called the election, but when it was plainly in the offing, the prime minister told La Presse, Quebec's most influential newspaper, that the province's traditional demands had been met and that Canada's constitution (which Quebec has never signed) was unlikely to be amended to its liking.

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