Latin America News

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela

AP - Sunday, November 22

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. More »

  • Hundreds of people wave flags during a protest against President Daniel Ortega in Managua. Thousands of pro- and anti-government protesters took to the streets of Nicaragua's capital Saturday, protesting and backing President Daniel Ortega's bid to remain in power.

    Thousands throng rival Nicaragua rallies, 12 hurt

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    MANAGUA (AFP) - - Thousands of pro- and anti-government protesters took to the streets of Nicaragua's capital, protesting and backing President Daniel Ortega's bid to remain in power.

  • Colombia's Uribe seeks to ease Venezuela tensions

    Reuters - Sunday, November 22

    By Jose Miguel Gomez

  • Venezuela captures wanted Colombian fugitive

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities have captured a former Colombian official wanted for collaborating with outlawed right-wing paramilitary fighters.

  • Mexico says drug witness died in apparent suicide

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    MEXICO CITY - A top drug cartel suspect who turned state's evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug ties, Mexican law enforcement said Saturday.

  • Venezuelan police are pictured in May 2009. Venezuelan police captured a leader of a Colombia-linked paramilitary force, the interior minister announced Saturday amid sky-high military tensions between the South American neighbors.

    Venezuela seizes Colombia-linked paramilitary chief

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    CARACAS (AFP) - - Venezuelan police captured a leader of a Colombia-linked paramilitary force, the interior minister announced Saturday amid sky-high military tensions between the South American neighbors.

  • A view of the Galeras volcano in 2005. A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said Saturday.

    1000 people evacuated after Colombia volcano erupts

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    BOGOTA (AFP) - - A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said Saturday.

  • Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work

    AP - Sunday, November 22

    BRASILIA, Brazil - Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor.

  • Venezuelan soldiers prepare to blow up a footbridge that crosses the border between Colombia and Venezuela. Colombia warned its forces were on

    Colombia says its military on 'maximum alert'

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    BOGOTA (AFP) - - Colombia warned its forces were on "maximum alert" and were prepared to defend against any attack, amid rising tensions with neighboring Venezuela.

  • Mexico shifts strategy in border city violence

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.

  • Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago _ even when they don't want to know their birth parents.

  • Guatemala reopening international adoptions

    AP - Saturday, November 21

    GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalan officials on Friday announced the resumption of international adoptions after a nearly two-year suspension prompted by the discovery that some babies were being sold.

  • Honduran riot police keep an eye on supporters of ousted President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya protesting in front of the National Congress on November 6 in Tegucigalpa. The Honduran de facto regime on Friday ordered citizens to turn in their weapons in a bid to avert violence around disputed presidential elections to be held at the end of the month.

    Honduras regime seeks to disarm citizens ahead of polls

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - - The Honduran de facto regime on Friday ordered citizens to turn in their weapons in a bid to avert violence around disputed presidential elections to be held at the end of the month.

  • Honduras interim president may take leave for vote

    AP - Friday, November 20

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Honduras' interim president said Thursday he may step down temporarily to allow voters to concentrate on the upcoming presidential elections.

  • Honduras's de facto leader may step aside for a week

    Reuters - Friday, November 20

    TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras's de facto leader said he may give up his presidential duties for a week so voters can focus on an election that Washington hopes will help end a five-month-old political crisis.

  • Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, pictured in September 2009, has said he would legally contest the country's election set for November 29 because they were taking place before Congress decides if he can briefly return to power.

    Micheletti to briefly step down for Honduras polls

    AFP - Friday, November 20

    TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - - Honduras' de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said he planned to step down briefly over November 29 elections in an apparent bid to boost their international legitimacy.

  • Peru accuses gang of killing to sell human fat

    Reuters - Friday, November 20

    LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

  • Mexico anti-abortion fight moves to federal level

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    MEXICO CITY - Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion.

  • 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.

  • Murder charge filed in Puerto Rico teen slaying

    AP - Thursday, November 19

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Murder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case.

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