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SANTIAGO - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera sold his television channel, Chilevision, to Time Warner for around $160 million, the US media giant said Wednesday.

HAVANA - Cuba began making good Thursday on a deal to release its 52 most prominent political prisoners, with five told by the country's top clergyman that they could be released into exile at any time, and six others transferred to jails closer to their homes.

SANTIAGO, Chile - Congress rejected a proposal to rename the country's main airport after Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, famous worldwide for his poetry and a hero of the Chilean left for his political leanings.

SANTIAGO - Chile has called on China to make full use of a free trade deal that helped it become the country\'s top trading partner, Xinhua reported.

SANTIAGO, Chile - Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile's presidency Sunday in the country's first democratic election of a right-wing ruler in 52 years, and vowed to make Chile "the best country in the world." Pinera's triumph over former President Eduardo Frei ended more than two decades of rule by the center-left coalition that followed Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, and marked a tilt to the right on a continent dominated by leftist governments.