US swimmer Nyad prepares to swim Florida Straits
 07.08.2011 21:25  2 views  0 comments
HAVANA (AP) — U.S. endurance swimmer Diana Nyad is making final preparations for her bid to become the first...
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Chavez vows to improve Venezuela's prison system
07.08.2011 4:50 2 views 0 comments
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez promised Saturday to fix Venezuela's notoriously corrupt and violent penitentiary system, swearing in a top official responsible for improving some of Latin America's deadliest prisons. Chavez expressed optimism that Iris Varela, a lawyer, congresswoman and high-ranking governing party member, will root out graft and curb violence in...
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The De-Militarization of Colombia. Ending US Military Presence: Pillage, Promise and Peace
07.08.2011 4:40 3 views 0 comments
Pillage, Promise and Peace Invited paper to be presented to the Encuentro Nacional de comunidades Campesinas, Afrodescendientes e Indigenas por la Tierra y la Paz de Colombia , El dialogo es la Ruta 12 al 15 de agosto 2011 Barrancabermeja Colombia Introduction: We live in a time of great destruction and grand economic opportunities and Latin America is no exception. In the global context, the US Empire is engaged in destructive wars ( Afghanistan , Iraq , Pakistan , Libya , Yemen , Somalia and Haiti ). In contrast China, India, Brazil, Argentina and other emerging economies are expanding trade, investments and reducing poverty. The European Union (EU) and the United States (USA) are...
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Mexican villagers attack alleged crooks, killing 6
07.08.2011 2:49 2 views 0 comments
OAXACA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say dozens of armed villagers in southern Mexico confronted a suspected crime...
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Chavez: Venezuela not immune from US economic woes
07.08.2011 1:48 2 views 0 comments
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that Venezuela is not immune to the economic woes afflicting the U.S. and Europe despite efforts to distance itself from world powers and establish a socialist system. Chavez warned that economic problems around the globe would probably hurt Venezuela as international oil prices fall, but added that...
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9 bodies found near schools in 2 Mexican states
06.08.2011 22:46 2 views 0 comments
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — An official in Mexico's northwestern state of Sinaloa says the dismembered bodies of four young men...
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Chavez gets permission to go to Cuba for chemo
06.08.2011 21:48 4 views 0 comments
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Legislators have granted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez permission to...
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Guyanan engineers begin to dismantle crashed jet
06.08.2011 20:46 3 views 0 comments
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A Guyanese official says engineers are dismantling the wreckage of a Caribbean Airlines jet that...
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5 missing phone book distributors found in Mexico
06.08.2011 19:45 5 views 0 comments
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — A federal police official says five men who went missing while distributing phone directories in...
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Chavez: We won't tolerate rebels in Venezuela
03.06.2011 3:54 9 views 0 comments
CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he will not to tolerate the presence of Colombian guerrillas in Venezuelan territory, adding that he's confident Colombia's government would in turn capture any opponents conspiring against his government. "We are not going to allow the presence of any armed group," including rebels, paramilitary fighters and drug traffickers in...
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Another rural activist killed in Amazon region
03.06.2011 2:53 6 views 0 comments
RIO DE JANEIRO – Another rural activist was found shot to death in the Amazon on Thursday, just three days after Brazil's leaders discussed how to stop the region's deadly disputes over logging and protect those whose lives are threatened. Police in Eldorado dos Carajas, a town in Para state, said the slaying bore the characteristics of an execution, but gave no further details. The victim was identified only by his first name, Marcos. Two witnesses initially tried to take the wounded activist to a hospital, but were stopped en route by gunmen in another car who got out and finished off the victim, the police chief of southeastern Para, Alberto...
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US teen killed in Costa Rica while on school trip
03.06.2011 1:53 6 views 0 comments
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – A 16-year-old U.S. high school student was shot and killed at a Costa Rican hotel by a security guard who mistook him for a thief, authorities said Thursday. High school senior Justin Johnston of McLouth, Kansas was shot in the chest before dawn Thursday at the La Cangreja Lodge hotel in the city of La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rican police said in a...
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Cholera surges again in part of Haitian capital
03.06.2011 0:52 6 views 0 comments
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – An international aid group says clinics in one section of the Haitian capital are seeing a sharp rise in...
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Argentine court orders DNA test of Clarin adoptees
03.06.2011 0:52 7 views 0 comments
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – An Argentine court says the adopted children of one of Latin America's biggest newspaper publishers must...
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Argentina passes money-laundering law
03.06.2011 0:52 5 views 0 comments
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina has enacted a law criminalizing money laundering. The South American country's Senate near...
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Mexico's Pemex sues U.S. firms over fuel smuggling
03.06.2011 0:52 8 views 0 comments
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico's state-run oil company Pemex is suing 11 U.S. companies for buying up to $300 million of fuel stolen by drug gangs and smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border, court documents showed. Pemex's exploration and production (PEP) unit filed the suit on Sunday in a U.S. district court in Texas, claiming some of the companies conspired with Mexican criminals to forge documents and smuggle the hijacked natural gas condensates. "The defendants have participated and profited -- knowingly or...
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Rio Breaks – review
03.06.2011 0:44 8 views 0 comments
The story of the surfing scene at one of Rio de Janeiro's poorer beaches makes a happy correction to the usual gangster shtick 3...
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Former student claims abuse in teen boot camps
02.06.2011 22:51 9 views 0 comments
SALT LAKE CITY – A former student in a controversial Utah-based organization for troubled children contends in a federal lawsuit that its teen...
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Man pleads guilty in Barbados fire that killed 6
02.06.2011 22:05 4 views 0 comments
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – A man in Barbados has pleaded guilty to setting a clothing store on fire in Barbados and killing six women....
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Chile murder probe into death of author Pablo Neruda
02.06.2011 22:05 5 views 0 comments
SANTIAGO (AFP) – Officials in Chile said they will launch a murder investigation into the death of Nobel Prize-winning writer Pablo Neruda, who died 12 days after the 1973 coup that overthrew the government. It had long been believed that the writer, among Latin America's most renowned literary figures, had died of cancer, but officials here said they now will try to determine whether Neruda was the victim of homicide. The move Thursday was ordered by a...
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