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FALKLAND ISLANDS - Britain rejects Argentine claim to the Falklands

PERU - Peru tries to bring tourists to Cuzco

BRAZIL - Eight killed in pre-Carnival Rio violence

HAITI - Haitian judge rules for release of U.S. missionaries

BRAZIL - Brazil court orders arrest of governor in scandal

MEXICO - Mexico interior secretary leaves ruling party after criticizing alliance with leftists

ECUADOR - TUNGURAHUA VOLCANO UPDATE -

ECUADOR - TAXI DRIVERS HAVE ONE PRICE FOR FOREIGNERS AND ONE FOR ECUADORIANS FROM THE AIRPORT IN QUITO

LATIN AMERICA  - Aero Republica to add Guayaquil AND OTHER LA MARKETS as parent Copa plans 10% capacity growth for 2010

ARGENTINA, UK - Argentina blocks shipment in flap over Falklands

URUGUAY - Uruguay's ex-ruler Bordaberry jailed for 30 years

MEXICO -  World Cup crime fears dismissed

MEXICO, GUATEMALA - Experts to explore modern Mayan version of '2012'

PERU -  Peru's Tax Collections Seen Up By About 11% This Year

MEXICO, US - The Case Of A Confidential Informant Gone Wrong

PERU - Peru's flood-hit tourism

MEXICO - Love but little money for Mexico's female fighters-LUCHA LIBRE

MEXICO - Mexico’s Drug Fiasco

VENEZUELA - Chevron, Repsol pursue Orinoco right

PERU - Mincetur allocates US$ 21.1 million to promote foreign tourists arrival to Cusco

PERU - Japan International Cooperation Agency to provide US$ 200 million to Peru

PERU - Tourism service prices to fall 50% for domestic visitors

CHILE - Easter Island May Host New Reality TV Show

CHILE - A Foreign-Educated Bunch: A Look At Chile’s New Cabinet

ARGENTINA -  The meat turns a luxury food in the Argentinians’ table

COLOMBIA - 14 kidnappings in January

COLOMBIA - FARC and ELN are Interpol's most wanted

HONDURAS - Commission To Report On Honduran Coup In 4 Months

GUATEMALA - Guatemala Destroys Poppy, Marijuana Plants

BOLIVIA - Bolivia Creates Space Agency For Chinese Satellite

VENEZUELA - Venezuela Incinerates Three Tons of Drugs

BRAZIL - Brazilian Middle Class Shrinks For The First Time In Six Years

NICARAGUA - United Nations Urges Nicaragua to Legalize Abortion

COSTA RICA - Chinchilla Pledges To Help Nicaraguan Migrants

COSTA RICA -  African Bee Attack in Quepos Kills Canadian Tourist, Two Others In Hospital

COSTA RICA - Costa Rica, China Seal Trade Deal

COSTA RICA - KLM Offers Daily Flights To Europe From Costa Rica

ARGENTINA - Orphaned in Argentina's dirty war, man is torn between two families

MEXICO - The Mexican drug cartels and terrorist financing are recruiting ...

MEXICO - Mexico won't withdraw army from drug fight

PERU - Chocolate replaces cocaine in some areas of Peru

MEXICO - NGOs blame Mexico officials for most attacks on journalists

PERU - Peru will host the 2010 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games ...

ECUADOR - Chevron Says Expert Biased in Cleanup Case

MEXICO - Big and Small Firms Harness Sun's Rays

PERU, USA -  CIA, Military Trade Blame Over Missionary Plane Shootdown

URUGUAY - Pulling Small Dairy Farmers Out of Poverty

PANAMA, US - Virginia Resident Pleads Guilty to Bribing Former Panamanian Government Officials in Connection with Maritime Contract

VENEZUELA - Electricity Emergency Declared in Venezuela, Special Measures Taken

COLOMBIA - Colombia's 'Lost City' to get $580,000 investment

COLOMBIA - FARC recruits 13-year-old spy

COLOMBIA - Colombia to send 60 troops to Afghanistan

COLOMBIA - Candidates: Colombia fails to promote Andean Parliament elections

LATIN AMERICA - Global Tobacco Survey Findings Released in Montevideo

LATIN AMERICA, INDIA - Indian Companies See Growth Opportunities In Latin America

CUBA, US - US Cuba broadcasts work with VOA Spanish service

LATIN AMERICA, MIDDLE EAST - Arab and Latin Women's Film Caravan arrives in Amman

BELIZE, US - Suspect wanted in 1995 Roxbury slaying is arrested in Belize

COSTA RICA - Costa Rica's Generational and Gender Changes

COSTA RICA - Costa Rica's National Telco To Deploy Gilat SkyEdge II Satellite Network

COLOMBIA, PANAMA -  Colombia to Begin Free Trade Talks With Panama as Exports Fall

BRAZIL - Brave teen’s body is home

PERU - Peru's Mineral Wealth and Woes

VENEZUELA - Chavez’ arbitrary expropriation A video taken from the official television of Venezuela shows President Hugo Chávez when he is expropriating private property arbitrarily

BRAZIL - Helicopter from Brazilian TV crashed in Sao Paulo

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PERU - Ucayali authorities put tourist security plan into effect

LATIN AMERICA - Techonology training creates new job opportunities for youth in Latin America

ECUADOR, PERU - Ecuador president to pay official visit to Peru in May

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 COLOMBIA - Authorities arrest seven henchman from "Comba" narco gang

COLOMBIA - Canadian NGO opposes killing of Colombian teachers

COLOMBIA - Ex-guerrilla demands reward for tip leading to FARC leader's death

COLOMBIA, ECUADOR - Uribe and Correa chat at UNASUR meeting

COSTA RICA - ICE Expands Existing SkyEdge Network as Part of Its Universal Service Obligation

PANAMA - Insecurity Hurts Panamanian Society

VENEZUELA - Venezuelan Socialist Youth Summons March

COLOMBIA - FARC Warns of Panama Guard Interference

NICARAGUA - Could Honduras Crisis Prompt A Power Grab In Nicaragua?

NICARAGUA - No Quorum to Examine Amnesty Draft

COSTA RICA - Mystery of Slow Drivers On San José - Caldera Highway Solved

COSTA RICA - Jail Provisions For Print Journalists Repealed

COSTA RICA - NatureAir Receives National Geographic’s Geotourism Award

BOLIVIA - Bolivia Expects 5, 000 Foreigners at Climate Forum

BOLIVIA - Bolivian candidate makes adobe bricks as part of community sentence for drunk driving

MEXICO - Arrested Tijuana cops were hailed as models

LATIN AMERICA - LAN Airlines Monthly Statistics Report for January 2010

ARGENTINA - Argentina raises pensions by 8.2%

COLOMBIA - Colombia makes sweeping drug arrests

LATIN AMERICA - Drug-related violence is once again on the rise in Latin America - INTERVIEW WITH FORMER BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT HENRIQUE CARDOSO

COLOMBIA, NETHERLANDS - Cocaine found hidden among Valentine

COSTA RICA -   Jet Luxury Resorts Goes Green in Costa Rica

LATIN AMERICA - Alberto Culver: Beautiful Sales Growth in Latin America

CHILE - HANTAVIRUS CASE LAKE REGION

MEXICO - Frontline cops A Mexican widow joins police tackling the drug cartels

VENEZUELA - Hugo Chávez's new radio show aims to reverse shrinking audience by stealth - No announcement as to when shows will broadcast in part due to few watching his television show.

CUBA - Inside Cuba's dance factory

COLOMBIA -  A study shows that the expansion on the coverage of mobile telephony has been very important for the reduction of kidnappings in Colombia.

COLOMBIA - The referendum is in trouble

PERU - UNI to finish first Peruvian nanosatellite in July

COLOMBIA, US - Students as Spies: The Deep Politics of U.S.-Colombian Relations

HAITI - Military Dictatorship in Haiti: A Chronology

VENEZUELA - Venezuelans Would Shun Pro-Chávez Candidates

CHILE - Chileans Expect Good Piñera Administration

VENEZUELA - Venezuelans Say Country is on Wrong Track

COSTA RICA - Gas Price Hike Approved

CHILE - Chile Presents Official Bid To Host World’s Largest Telescope

CHILE - Three Dead And 27 Injured In Southern Chile Bus/Truck Collision

CHILE - Piñera Prepares To Take Over Reigns Of Government

MEXICO - MTV postpones airing of 'South Park' episode in Mexico, fearing sanctions over use of flag.

PERU - Peru's Mining, Hydrocarbon Projects May Total $43 Billion By 2017

ARGENTINA - Argentina Manufacturing Rebounds In December After Slump -UIA

ECUADOR - Chevron: Ecuador economist will be paid by Ecuador from judgement

LATIN AMERICA, US - US: 7 percent fewer illegal immigrants last year

GUATEMALA - EVANGELICAL VALUES ARE REASONS FOR HOPE

CHILE - Chile's new technocrats: In Sebastian Pinera's cabinet, independents outnumber right-wingers

ECUADOR - Ecuador Government May Acquire Noble Power Plant, Minister Says

PERU - Investment in Peru's mining and energy sectors, which totaled 4.88 billion dollars in 2009, has created "extremely favorable" conditions for growth, the country's private mining association said.

PERU, CHILE - Peru is currently the world's second biggest copper producer, behind Chile

ARGENTINA - Argentina's third nuclear power plant nears completion

ECUADOR - Chevron Says Conflict Taints Amazon Pollution Report (Update1)

VENEZUELA - 184 Communes Currently in Formation in Venezuela

VENEZUELA - Predicting a head-on collision in Venezuela BLOG

BRAZIL - Chickens: made in Brazil, sold in Iraq

CUBA - Cuba's public "privatization" debate

LATIN AMERICA - South American leaders pledge $300 mln for Haiti

ARGENTINA - Argentina's Electric Power Grid Holds Up Despite Heat Wave

BRAZIL - Brazil's Usiminas may revive mill plan on recovery

BRAZIL - China to apply for tender to build Brazil's high speed train line

BRAZIL - Honda To Invest $200 Million In Sao Paulo, Brazil, Plant

BRAZIL - Brazil accelerates investment in Africa

BRAZIL - Lula's Latest Decree Is Death Knell for Free Press and Private Property

BRAZIL - Who Is Brazil Catering to in Approving Bayer's New Controversial Rice?

ECUADOR - Ecuador Quito Mayor: Agreement Reached With Quiport On Airport-TV

ECUADOR - Ecuador May Develop $6 Billion Dam Project After Shortages

VENEZUELA - Chávez pulls out of Unasur summit because of domestic issues

COLOMBIA - Colombian gas exports to Venezuela collapse in January

LATIN AMERICA - The political risks to investing in Latin America have grown with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez pushing socialist reforms, but Wall St. analysts say the rewards are worth the risks. VIDEO

EL SALVADOR - More than 75,000 people died in the El Salvador civil war. Photographer Don McCullin was nearly one of them.

VENEZUELA - Chavez Declares Electricity Emergency in Venezuela

ARGENTINA - PUNTO TUMBO Study of World's Largest Colony of Magellanic Penguins Finds Population in Steep Decline

HAITI, COLOMBIA - Haiti studies Colombian town seen as model for quake rebuilding

VENEZUELA - RCTV Internacional's owners hand over document to OAS

VENEZUELA - Venezuela to install 1,531 photovoltaic systems in remote areas

VENEZUELA, CUBA - "Cuban Minister comes to activate a radical pro-Chavez movement"

VENEZUELA - Solar power for Venezuela?

CHILE - Stop Treating Community Broadcasters as Criminals, Say Activists

PERU - Peru toasts pisco boom in annual cocktail day

MEXICO, US - $3.3 Million Grant to Combat The Flow of Illegal Guns Into Mexico

PERU - 2010 Hyundai Tucson launches in Peru

PERU - Travelex Insurance says Peru rains and mudslides may not be covered

PERU - International Olympic Committee awards rights in Peru - SportsPro ...

GUATEMALA - BUILD forum joins Tufts and Guatemalan communities

COLOMBIA - Colombia: VP called to respond to "parapolitics" allegations

CUBA, US - Next Year in Havana? Ending the U.S. Travel Ban Should Be First Step in Normalizing Relations with Cuba

HAITI - Internews provides critical news to use in Haiti

HAITI, US - US military must explain why marines censored Haitian photographer

MEXICO - mergers and acquisitions TELEVISA

MEXICO - 2 suspected drug gang leaders held in Tijuana

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