The programs, called misiones sociales, have measurably reduced poverty in places like Petare.

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La agencia espacial estadounidense ha reconocido que 24 de las 32 misiones que han partido hacia Marte han fallado por motivos diversos.

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In Misiones he went further, backing an independent against a Peronist.

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Keep in mind that Chavez consolidated power in the electorate with the promise of poverty reduction programs, known as "misiones", at a time when oil revenue was abundant.

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Argentina's northern province of Misiones, named for the settlements established during Spanish colonial times by the Catholic Church's Jesuit order, juts like a finger far into Brazil and Paraguay.

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As the road climbed into the forested folds of Misiones's central sierras, the colors seemed unnaturally bright, the saturated emerald of grass and leaves standing out against the earth's deep, rusty red.

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The project, La Ruta de las Misiones (The Way of the Missions), set to be completed in mid-2013, has already reconditioned several of the rustic, single-level adobe missions, restoring their original carved wooden and copper fixtures.

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The church, the Mision Nuestra Senora de Loreto , located on Calles Pino Suarez and Salvatierra, is in good condition and the Museo de las Misiones museum beside it illustrates how the indigenous people lived when the Europeans arrived.

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