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Mayor López indicted for arrest of former Interior Minister The Attorney General's Office Friday indicted Leopoldo López, Mayor of the Chacao Municipality of Caracas, in connection with the detention of former Interior and Justice Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín in April 2002. López was charged with housebreaking and false arrest against Rodríguez Chachín. López said that he and his colleague Henrique Capriles Radonski, Mayor of the Baruta Municipality of Caracas, are innocent because they acted abiding by the law, and met an order that the Attorney General's Office itself issued.

Any Brazilian efforts towards building a nuclear weapon or for that matter weapons grade material for the so-called 'credible deterrent' could provoke neighboring Argentina to pursue its shelved nuclear weapon program. This might trigger a nuclear arms race in the Latin America like the one in South Asia. Consider this: "Brazil is going to be the first ever nuclear weapon state (NWS) in the Southern Hemisphere by 2010." The fear of Theodore Taylor, an American physicist and expert on nuclear weapons during the 1970s would be true, if Brazil produces the bomb. Taylor had observed immediately after Brazil entered into...