His security build-up drove the FARC from heavily populated central Colombia to remoter areas.

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It is also plugging Asia, even its remoter parts, into the energy markets of the Middle East and consumer markets farther afield.

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In the remoter corners of the Andes, textiles have been the clues used to identify exhumed human remains where ID documents are a rarity.

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And expats today find it ever harder to persuade spouses, who may also have a career, to follow them into the remoter parts of the corporate jungle.

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These included how to keep it in cold storage on long journeys to remoter parts of the region from the main vaccine store at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.

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In remoter parts of Brazil, elections can still stir violence.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Mr Fox is still enjoying the goodwill that follows an electoral victory, but if his democratic changes do not reach the remoter parts of Mexico, and in particular if the delicate negotiations with the Zapatists fail, frustration in the backwaters may grow, feeding isolated guerrilla activity.

ECONOMIST: Mexico