Latin America News

Chile urges 'caution' in Peru spying row

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.
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. More »

  • People take part in the XVIII Gay Pride Parade in Buenos Aires. An Argentine judge paved the way for gay marriage when she granted a homosexual couple permission to marry in a first for Latin America, the world's biggest Catholic region

    Buenos Aires okays gay marriage in Latin America first

    AFP - Saturday, November 14

    BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - - An Argentine judge paved the way for gay marriage when she granted a homosexual couple permission to marry in a first for Latin America, the world's biggest Catholic region.

  • Colombia chef school concocts dessert with Viagra

    AP - Saturday, November 14

    BOGOTA - A Colombian cooking school has concocted a "love dessert" made with passion fruit _ and Viagra.

  • Brazil blackout cause uncertain, president says

    AP - Saturday, November 14

    RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's president suggested Friday that bad weather may not have caused a massive blackout that left nearly a third of the population without electricity, saying he'll wait for an investigation to conclude how the outage happened.

  • Guantanamo detainees by the numbers

    AP - Saturday, November 14

    A look at numbers for detainees past and present at the detention center that opened in 2002 at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba:

  • Brazil says it will cut carbon by at least 36 pct

    AP - Saturday, November 14

    RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil says it will voluntarily reduce carbon emissions by 36.1 percent to 38.9 percent by 2020.

  • Twenty months after Colombian forces bombed a guerrilla encampment in Ecuador bringing the two countries to the verge of war, both capitals on Friday said they restored diplomatic ties.

    Colombia, Ecuador mend diplomatic ties after bombing

    AFP - Saturday, November 14

    BOGOTA (AFP) - - Twenty months after Colombian forces bombed a guerrilla encampment in Ecuador bringing the two countries to the verge of war, both capitals on Friday said they restored diplomatic ties.

  • Forbes: Mexico kingpin among world's most powerful

    AP - Friday, November 13

    MEXICO CITY - Mexico's most-wanted drug lord escaped prison by hiding in a laundry truck nearly a decade ago, and his legend and fortune seem to grow with each passing day he eludes capture.

  • Earthquake shakes northern Chile

    AP - Friday, November 13

    SANTIAGO, Chile - A strong earthquake struck northern Chile early Friday, briefly knocking out power to a city but otherwise causing no major damages, authorities said.

  • Bolivia: Lake Titicaca at dangerously low levels

    AP - Friday, November 13

    LA PAZ, Bolivia - Evaporation blamed on global warming has reduced Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest navigable lakes, to its lowest level since 1949, authorities said Thursday.

  • Brazil: Deforestation sees biggest drop in 20 yrs

    AP - Friday, November 13

    BRASILIA, Brazil - Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 _ the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday.

  • Residential buildings in the Moema neighborhood stand in darkness, the city lit solely by antennas atop buildings and vehicles headlights, during a massive blackout in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early November 11. State prosecutors in Brazil on Thursday demanded officials explain how a huge blackout across half the country occurred, as doubts were cast on the government's argument a storm was to blame.

    Answers demanded over Brazil blackout

    AFP - Friday, November 13

    SAO PAULO (AFP) - - State prosecutors in Brazil on Thursday demanded officials explain how a huge blackout across half the country occurred, as doubts were cast on the government's argument a storm was to blame.

  • Venezuela destroys more than 30,000 firearms

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities have destroyed more than 30,000 illegal firearms as part of an effort to combat soaring crime.

  • 1.5 lbs. of nails pulled from Peruvian's stomach

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    LIMA, Peru - "They call me the hardware store," says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru.

  • Mexican city fires 25 percent of traffic police

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    MONTERREY, Mexico - Mexico's third-largest city has fired almost a quarter of its traffic police for failing tests designed to detect corruption and ineptitude.

  • Correction: Indians Arise-Identity story

    AP - Thursday, November 12

    HUAMPAMI, Peru - In a Nov. 9 story about native tongues at risk in Latin America, The Associated Press incorrectly reported the total number of indigenous languages spoken in the region.

  • A man stands on a buried bridge on the shore of the Ilopango lake in the Dolores Apulo village in Ilopango, near San Salvador. Rescue workers have tried to reach survivors of floods and landslides unleashed by late-season storms, as common graves were being dug around the country to handle the growing death toll that now stands at 152.

    Floods, landslides kill 152 in El Salvador

    AFP - Wednesday, November 11

    SAN SALVADOR (AFP) - - Rescue workers have tried to reach survivors of floods and landslides unleashed by late-season storms, as common graves were being dug around the country to handle the growing death toll that now stands at 152.

  • Mexico's tough-talk mayor has gotten threats

    AP - Wednesday, November 11

    MONTERREY, Mexico - A Mexican mayor known for his tough anti-crime proposals and seeming advance knowledge of the death of a purported kidnapper said Tuesday that he has received threats and now has a security escort.

  • New prime minister confirmed by lawmakers in Haiti

    AP - Wednesday, November 11

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Lawmakers overwhelmingly gave final approval to Jean-Max Bellerive as Haiti's new prime minister Tuesday, making him the sixth person to hold the post since 2004 in this politically unstable nation.

  • Venezuela: swine flu contained among Indians

    AP - Wednesday, November 11

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu among isolated Amazon Indians has been contained.

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