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http://leighm.wordpress.com [My Buffalo River Home] A security officer takes away Argentinian Greenpeace protestor Evangelina Carroso as she carries a banner through a group photo of EU and Latin American heads of state at an EU Latin America summit in Vienna, on Friday May 12, 2006. A growing feud over energy and trade policy was dominating a summit between 58 European and Latin American leaders as they started their talks Friday.

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