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		<title>Scotiabank to exit nine countries in Caribbean shake-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scotiabank, which has operated in the Caribbean since 1889, says it plans to refocus its business in the region by selling a number of insurance and banking operations.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Latin America leaders to discuss crucial issues without Trump</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2018 18:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is the meeting that few American heads of state want to attend. Donald Trump, for one, cancelled on Tuesday his maiden trip to Latin America for the eighth Summit of the Americas in Lima, saying he needed to oversee the US response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Puerto Rico pitches for investment after hurricane</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Five months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico’s government is shifting from disaster recovery to pitching for business, telling multinational companies that the island that has defaulted on its debt obligations and is still struggling to restore power is on the brink of “an economic transformation”.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cuba braced for life after the Castros</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Niuris Higueras climbs with heavy tread up the wrought-iron staircase to Atelier, a 50-seat restaurant that boasts graceful wood-panelled rooms and a broad terrace with sweeping views of the Havana skyline. Business seems to be booming.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Swiss trader seeks go-ahead to buy Venezuela-Russia oil loan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Commodity trader Mercuria has asked the US Treasury for permission to buy out a $1.5bn loan between Russia’s Rosneft and Venezuela’s state oil company, which had raised the prospect of Moscow taking control of refineries on US soil.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tillerson extols 19th-century US foreign policy in Latin America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rex Tillerson waded into controversy as he began his first Latin American tour by touting a return to a 200-year-old foreign policy doctrine used to justify armed US intervention in its backyard.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Guyana can avoid the curse of oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The hottest new prospect for the world’s oil industry is Guyana, a small, relatively poor, country on the north-eastern coast of Latin America.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Latin American populism fears overdone as stocks play catch-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 17:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The world economy is enjoying a synchronised advance, and markets are enjoying the ride. But one region is missing out: Latin America.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Davos 2018: ‘Unfair’ Panama was put  on tax blacklist says president</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Including Panama on the EU’s tax haven blacklist was “unfair”, the country’s president has said.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>EU recommends removing Panama and 7 others from tax haven blacklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[European officials have recommended that eight countries, including Panama and Tunisia be moved from the EU’s tax haven blacklist to its grey list, after they promise to reform.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>EU imposes sanctions on Venezuelan and North Korean officials</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The EU has imposed travel bans and asset freezes on top Venezuelan government officials and North Korean diplomats accused of breaking sanctions across Africa and Asia.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Traditional growth measures give a false account of economic health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sure, Planet Earth’s growth rate, as defined by gross domestic product, is expected to edge up to 3.1 per cent in 2018 after a much stronger than expected 2017.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Smuggled cattle and petrol join exodus from Venezuela</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[They bribe border guards to get the livestock across. The cows are slaughtered — as many as 250,000 a year — in makeshift Colombian abattoirs and the meat is sold for three times what it fetches in Venezuela.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>US proposes dramatic expansion of offshore drilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The US interior department has unveiled plans to make about 90 per cent of federal waters available for drilling, in response to a 2017 executive order from President Donald Trump.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fears raised over expansion of powers for the taxman</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There has been “a dramatic change in the tone and content of HMRC’s powers” in the past two years, including a proliferation of naming-and-shaming powers, according to a report published by the tax law review committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.]]></description>
		
		
		
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