Latin America News

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. More »

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • Supporters of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya raise their painted hands calling the people not to vote in the upcoming November 29 general election, during a demonstration in Tegucigalpa. The Honduran Congress will consider whether to reinstate ousted Zelaya on December 2, three days after elections for a new president, the body's head said Tuesday.

    Honduras Congress to vote on Zelaya return after election

    AFP - Wednesday, November 18

    TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - - The Honduran Congress will consider whether to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya on December 2, three days after elections for a new president, the body's head said Tuesday.

  • 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.

  • Venezuela: Colombia detained troops illegally

    AP - Tuesday, November 17

    CARACAS, Venezuela - A Venezuelan commander contends Colombia wrongly detained four of his soldiers last week along the border separating the South American nations.

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