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This paper focuses on the study of the terms "conflict", "problem", "solution" and "resolution" appearing on headlines of several Spanish and Latinoamerican newspapers. Specifically, we studied 334 headlines, published between August 10th and November 15th, 2009, in Spanish and American papers, corresponding to the eight dialectal areas considered by Real Academia Española for Diccionario panhispánico de dudas and the Nueva gramática de la lengua española. Our research has a double aim: firstly, to classify the conflicts (or problems) that these headlines show, in order to analyse which are the phenomena named (from a journalistic point of view), with these terms. And, secondly, to study the syntactic-semantic relations that those four terms establish with their immediate cotext, framed by the headline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]