Latin America News

Brazil: President to decide on Italian fugitive

AP - Thursday, November 19

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the nation's president should decide whether to extradite Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti, a former leftist rebel wanted by his native country for political killings in the 1970s. More »

  • Puerto Rico gay slaying investigated as hate crime

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found along a road in Puerto Rico last week is under investigation as a possible hate crime, a police official said Wednesday.

  • Escobar son accused in Medellin cartel crimes

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    BOGOTA - Colombia's police director says the son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was directly involved in cartel business, even killings, rejecting the denials of a man whose reappearance is creating a sensation in Colombia 16 years after his father's death.

  • School bus crash kills girl, 8, in Puerto Rico

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Authorities in Puerto Rico say a school bus has fallen off an overpass, killing an 8-year-old girl near the capital of the U.S. Caribbean territory.

  • AP Interview: Brazil miniskirt student enjoys fame

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    SAO PAULO - Fresh from an appearance on one of Brazil's most popular TV shows, the young woman whose short, pink dress got her kicked out of college is enjoying her newfound fame, yet has her eye on getting back to class.

  • Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega. Hundreds of students lobbed homemade bombs at the Nicaraguan Congress to protest government plans to cut university funding, as pro-and anti-government demonstrators prepared to square off at the weekend in Managua.

    Hundreds of students attack Nicaraguan legislature

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    MANAGUA (AFP) - - Hundreds of students lobbed homemade bombs at the Nicaraguan Congress to protest government plans to cut university funding, as pro-and anti-government demonstrators prepared to square off at the weekend in Managua.

  • Cuba dissident ends protest fast amid health rumor

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    HAVANA - A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death."

  • Chile applies dictator-era law to Indian violence

    AP - Wednesday, November 18

    TEMUCUICUI, Chile - Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era measures to quell the violence.

  • People gather rubbish to re-sell from a giant rubbish dump in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that the country has reduced malnutrition by 73 percent in the last six years, despite persistent and major economic imbalances in the Latin American state.

    Brazil touts 'Zero Hunger' program

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    BRASILIA (AFP) - - As the United Nations food agency meets in Rome to discuss ways to combat global hunger, Brazil's President Luiz Inacia Lula da Silva can tout the success of his country's "Zero Hunger" program.

  • Mexico Indian remains returned from NY for burial

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    MEXICO CITY - Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.

  • Peru president rebukes Chile over alleged spying

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    LIMA, Peru - Peruvian President Alan Garcia accused Chile of assaulting Peru's sovereignty, throwing his weight behind allegations that Chile paid a Peruvian military officer to spy.

  • El Salvador honors 6 Jesuits slain by army in 1989

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Six Jesuit priests killed by the army during El Salvador's civil war two decades ago were decorated with the country's highest honor Monday.

  • Vehicles ply the '23 de Maio' expressway, linking the north and south areas of the metropolis during a massive blackout, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early on November 11. A massive blackout across half of Brazil last week was caused by a short-circuit during bad weather, the energy ministry insisted on Monday despite persistent doubts over its explanation.

    Brazil insists short circuit, bad weather caused blackout

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    BRASILIA (AFP) - - A massive blackout across half of Brazil last week was caused by a short-circuit during bad weather, the energy ministry insisted on Monday despite persistent doubts over its explanation.

  • Environmentalists alarmed by Puerto Rico policies

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Sweeping from lush mountain rain forests to pristine beaches, a corridor of land protected by Puerto Rico's last governor hosts dozens of rare and endangered species and was championed by celebrities who helped fight off resort proposals.

  • A member of the Mexican armed forces stands guard as seized cocaine is incinerated in Yucatan, Mexico. Nicaraguan police have seized a large cache of weapons and explosives from suspected members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel after a police car chase outside Managua, a spokeswoman has said.

    Nicaragua seizes arms cache from Mexico drug gang

    AFP - Monday, November 16

    MANAGUA (AFP) - - Nicaraguan police have seized a large cache of weapons and explosives from suspected members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel after a police car chase outside Managua, a spokeswoman said.

  • Colombia: Mob attacks intel agents, frees suspect

    AP - Monday, November 16

    BOGOTA - The chief of Colombia's secret police says a mob assaulted three of its agents as they tried to arrest a suspect with alleged guerrilla ties.

  • Death toll in El Salvador storms rises to 192

    AP - Monday, November 16

    SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Salvadoran authorities say at least 192 people were killed by floods and landslides that swept through the country last week.

  • A man walks along Ipanema beach during the massive blackout in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, earlyNovember 11. The blackout that plunged half of Brazil into the dark days ago remains a mystery, casting a shadow over the country's energy policy and its plans to host the 2016 Olympics, experts say.

    Blackout mystery casts shadow on Brazil's Olympics

    AFP - Monday, November 16

    SAO PAULO (AFP) - - A massive blackout that plunged half of Brazil into the dark days ago remains a mystery, casting a shadow over the country's energy policy and its plans to host the 2016 Olympics, experts say.

  • Chilean President Michelle Bachelet (L) and Peruvian President Alan Garcia are seen in separate pictures as they arrive at the Presidential Palace in Singapore. Chile's government on Saturday dismissed allegations that members of its military had spied on neighboring Peru, as a serious diplomatic row between the two countries deepened.

    Chile urges 'caution' in Peru spying row

    AFP - Sunday, November 15

    SANTIAGO (AFP) - - Chile's government on Saturday dismissed allegations that members of its military had spied on neighboring Peru, as a serious diplomatic row between the two countries deepened.

  • Peruvian President Alan Garcia (C) waves as he arrives at Changi Airport in Singapore. Garcia said Saturday he was cancelling planned talks with his Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet and leaving a regional summit a day early over an espionage row

    Peru president cancels Chile talks over spy row

    AFP - Sunday, November 15

    SINGAPORE (AFP) - - Peruvian President Alan Garcia said Saturday he was cancelling planned talks with his Chilean counterpart Michelle Bachelet and leaving a regional summit a day early over an espionage row.

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