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2 Sep 2010 at 9:56pm![]() AP - An electoral official accused President Hugo Chavez and his allies of breaking campaign laws by using state-run media to berate rivals and praise friends ahead of this month's legislative elections. 2 Sep 2010 at 8:56pm AP - A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug cartel members in northeastern Mexico left 25 purported gunmen dead Thursday, the military said. 2 Sep 2010 at 8:03pm ![]() Reuters - At least 25 suspected drug gang members were killed in an army raid in rural northeastern Mexico on Thursday, the army said in a press release. 2 Sep 2010 at 7:14pm ![]() Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his socialist government's security record on Thursday, rejecting pre-election claims by the opposition that crime had risen sharply during his 11 years in power. 2 Sep 2010 at 6:57pm ![]() AFP - A clash between soldiers and gang members near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey left 25 dead, local media reported Thursday. 2 Sep 2010 at 6:55pm ![]() AP - One of two known survivors of a drug gang's massacre in northern Mexico of 72 undocumented Central and South American migrants urged others in an interview broadcast Thursday not to attempt the journey to the United States. 2 Sep 2010 at 5:47pm Reuters - Armed men abducted and held the cousin of the owner of Mexico's top broadcaster, Televisa, for four hours on Thursday in one of the hotspots of the country's drug war, local media reported. 2 Sep 2010 at 5:42pm ![]() AFP - The 33 Chilean miners trapped underground longer than anyone on record will soon be able to see and talk to loved ones through a video link, Health Minister Jaime Manalich said Thursday. 2 Sep 2010 at 5:05pm AP - El Salvador has made it illegal to belong to a street gang in the wake of an attack on a passenger bus that killed 17 people. 2 Sep 2010 at 2:20pm ![]() AFP - Mexican President Felipe Calderon admitted drug violence was worsening in Mexico but said the cartels had been weakened by the toppling of several major drug bosses, in his annual address Thursday. 2 Sep 2010 at 12:35pm Reuters - A few weeks after Ashton Kutcher's latest comedy "Killers" premiered in the United States, the movie was already entertaining the masses in communist Cuba. 2 Sep 2010 at 10:51am ![]() Reuters - Hermelindo Maquin set out from his home in the Guatemalan countryside in early August, leaving behind his small farm and pregnant wife as he began the long, perilous journey to the United States. 1 Sep 2010 at 11:05pm AP - The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the earthquake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti's best hotel. 1 Sep 2010 at 8:43pm ![]() AFP - The morale of 33 miners trapped in Chile soared after music and hot meals were supplied, while NASA advisers praised their "courage" and provided advice on daylight deprivation, as a rescue drill inched closer. 1 Sep 2010 at 3:36pm ![]() AFP - A captured Mexican drug kingpin admitted to "investments" in Colombia and said he had received trailers full of dollars from the United States, in a first interrogation video released here. |
2 Sep 2010 at 8:05pm Eight teens that recently went on the 3rd annual Duttenhaver Animal Conservation Field Study program presented by the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association will have no trouble writing something interesting for their "How I spent my summer vacation" essays. 2 Sep 2010 at 4:00pm Honduras has called Ecuador President Rafael Correa "irresponsible" for revealing that a second person survived a massacre in Mexico last month. 2 Sep 2010 at 11:46am Relatives of the miners trapped underground in a copper and gold mine gather around a screen that shows miners inside the mine at Copiapo, some 725 km north of Santiago, August 26, 2010. 2 Sep 2010 at 7:36am Brazilian police have arrested almost the entire local council in the southern city of Dourados, leaving an unprecedented power vacuum. 2 Sep 2010 at 3:22am In this book cover image released by Palgrave Macmillan, "Brazil on the Rise" by Larry Rohter is shown. 1 Sep 2010 at 11:12pm An 11-year-old girl injured when a jetliner carrying 131 people crashed on Colombia's San Andres Island last month has died, raising the accident's death toll to two. 1 Sep 2010 at 7:07pm "The people here have the best legs in Chile," a local tells me as we climb up a cobbled side street in Valparaiso. 1 Sep 2010 at 2:53pm Enjoy Casino & Resort is the leading company in Chile's gaming and entertainment industry, with five modern and distinctly different resorts in all the major tourist destinations in the country. 1 Sep 2010 at 10:43am With exquisite timing, seismologists warned last year that "the ConcepciA3n-ConstituciA3n area of south central Chile is very likely a mature seismic gap". In layman's terms, it was ripe for an earthquake. 1 Sep 2010 at 6:39am An Israeli-Arab lawmaker said Tuesday she told U.N. investigators probing Israel's deadly raid on an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip that its commandos were on a mission to kill. 1 Sep 2010 at 2:39am In Portuguese, the sign reads "mango juice." Unfortunately, the word "manga" is also Portuguese for "sleeve." I haven't been invited to give many graduation speeches since becoming the Frugal Traveler, and I think I know why. 31 Aug 2010 at 10:40pm Just six months ago, one of the largest earthquakes in a century tore Chile apart, physically ripping the ground, triggering a deadly tsunami and leaving in the wreckage a divided society and government trying to decide whom to blame. 31 Aug 2010 at 6:30pm A former Argentine navy lieutenant wanted for prosecution in his homeland for his alleged role in a 1972 massacre of leftist guerrillas has committed no crime and should not be sent back, his attorney told a U.S. judge Tuesday. 31 Aug 2010 at 2:20pm Agricultural equipment makers and customers worldwide gathered in Orlando in January to meet, greet, sell and buy at the trade show AG Connect Expo. 31 Aug 2010 at 9:55am What does the current murder rate and motives tell about living in Guyana? A country's murder rate is an infallible indicator of the value that its people place on human life. |
2 Sep 2010 at 8:24pm CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his socialist government's security record on Thursday, rejecting pre-election claims by the opposition that crime had risen sharply d... 2 Sep 2010 at 6:56pm Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday the expropriation and transfer to a provincial government of the 33% stake in the regional cement factory Fancesa. 2 Sep 2010 at 6:56pm Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said the best way Brazil can help to find a solution to the internal conflict of Colombia is by declaring the FARC guerrilla a “terrorist group”. 2 Sep 2010 at 6:28pm Brazil’s economy has settled into a period of more sustainable growth, expanding at a slower rate than the breakneck pace seen in the first quarter while recovering from a sudden slowdown in the sec... 2 Sep 2010 at 5:47pm LA PAZ, Sep 2, 2010 (IPS) - A national pact to focus on the rights of children was proposed by United Nations representative in Bolivia Yoriko Yasukawa on the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the... 2 Sep 2010 at 5:47pm RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 2, 2010 (IPS) - The huge gap between the poorest and richest neighbourhoods of Brazil's most famous city shrank between 1996 and 2008. But the news is not as good as it sounds, bec... 2 Sep 2010 at 5:36pm Juan Manuel Santos announced during his visit to the state's capital city of the same name. Santos, who wraps up his two day visit to Brazil Thursday, told media following a meeting with Sao Paulo go... 2 Sep 2010 at 5:36pm A Colombian NGO files a complaint before a Congress commission against former President Alvaro Uribe for authorizing a military pact with the U.S. in 2009. 2 Sep 2010 at 5:19pm Australia 76, Angola 55 Patty Mills scored 11 points to help Australia clinch third place in Group A. Australia broke open the game with an 11-0 run in the second quarter. No player scored in double f... 2 Sep 2010 at 5:04pm ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The World Championship first knockout round is poised to produce a pair of classics after Serbia beat Argentina 84-82 in an enthralling Group A match on Thursday to set up a meeti... 2 Sep 2010 at 4:51pm Still unbeaten: Derrick Rose of the United States goes up for a shot against Iran's Hamed Haddadi in their preliminary round game at the FIBA World Championship on Wednesday. The U.S. won 88-51. AP ... 2 Sep 2010 at 4:29pm SAO PAULO — Authorities say armed men stole a truck with more than 2 tons of explosives from a chemical company in Brazil. Police say five men in two vehicles blocked the truck and held the d... 2 Sep 2010 at 4:12pm Mexican and Brazilian stocks climbed and the countries' currencies surged Wednesday, with investors opening September in the mood to take on risk following strong manufacturing reports from 2 Sep 2010 at 3:17pm is connected to Mexican drug cartels. Prosecutor General Guillermo Mendoza announced that authorities, acting on intelligence information, had raided the two cars. On Monday they seized $12 million i... 2 Sep 2010 at 3:16pm Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Peru’s central bank will “gradually” raise interest rates as the economy no longer needs monetary stimulus, bank Governor Julio Velarde said. |
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