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The Chilean winter of discontent

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In Chile the death of a teenager has galvanized the movement and demonstrators demands for their share of the country's economic boom. And the US congress has passed a bill granting compensation to those made ill by helping at the 9/11 sites. Finally we turn to Argentina to take a look at the evangelical churches being preyed upon by Mexican drug cartels.

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