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BRAZIL - In Brazil Voting Is Serious Business and Mandatory to Boot

ARGENTINA - Argentina Wins Ruling Blocking Citibank Asset Seizure

GUATEMALA - Guatemalan Lawmaker Says She's Target of Murder Plot

ARGENTINA - Chicopee Web site temporarily shut down after someone from Argentina hacks into city website

GUATEMALA - Hunger again in Guatemala, appeal seeks $ 34 million to prevent food shortage

PERU - Peru's country risk drops to 1.65 percentage points

BRAZIL - Brazil Said to Limit Mine Rights for 35 Years

VENEZUELA - Venezuela linked to terror groups

CHILE - Earthquake Sucks Famous Waterfalls Dry

PERU - Peru remains best silver producer country in the world

PERU - Some 450 tour guides from Cusco trained during closure of Machu Picchu

PERU - Sodimac plans to invest US$ 60 million in 15 stores in Peru

PERU - Peruvian food shows off in American television

CUBA - Cuba says won't be "blackmailed" by hunger strike  

MEXICO, US - Border sheriff: Mexico travel okay, with precautions

MEXICO - Residents use social media to fight organized crime in Mexico

GUATEMALA - 6 injured as chopper hits Guatemalan soccer field

ARGENTINA - Argentina grandma to face trial over pot plants

ARGENTINA - Argentine Political Storm May Curb Economic Rebound

ARGENTINA - Argentina's "Secret" wins best foreign film Oscar

GUATEMALA - Water utility engineers, volunteers lend water aid in Guatemala

VENEZUELA - Chávez under fire from international community

ECUADOR - SK E&C Wins $13 Billion Contract From Ecuador

MEXICO - Where Centro Parties at Night

MEXICO - SHOOTING OF CALGARY MAN WORRIES AUTHORITIES

BRAZIL, ARGENTINA - Palm Oil Rally May Be Curbed by Record Soybean Crop

PERU - Peru posts lime trade boost

ECUADOR, IRAN - IRAN TO BUILD TWO POWER PLANTS IN ECUADOR

ECUADOR - Chevron Faces Critical Hearing

MEXICO - FARM SUBSIDIES GOING TO DRUG KINGPINS

MEXICO - Mexico City cuts cops' calories

MEXICO -  Catholic church slams Mexico City's leftist mayor

HAITI -  US troops withdrawing en masse from Haiti

CHILE - Chile quake survivors suffer cold, rainy night

COLOMBIA - FARC ready for hostage release, blame govt for delay

COLOMBIA - 'Parapolitics' to live on through PIN?

COLOMBIA - Army to investigate 4 colonels' attendance at 'narco' wedding

VENEZUELA - Venezuela Vaccinates People Against 14 Diseases

VENEZUELA - US Crusade against Venezuela Denounced

COLOMBIA - Colombia Seizes 600 Antipersonnel Mines

MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA -  Central America and Mexico Look into Regional Security

COSTA RICA - Costa Rica Online Gambling Laws Cause Arrests in United States

COSTA RICA - "Impugnación" Unit Functions Expanded

COSTA RICA - Costa Rica Closes Gender Gap; Celebrates International Women's Day

MEXICO - Scientists Reinvent the Corn Tortilla

COSTA RICA -  Headhunting First-World Seniors

ARGENTINA - Man Builds House With 6 Million Beer Bottles In Argentina (VIDEO)

ECUADOR - Ecuador sees no need for OPEC output cut

CHILE  - Chile Scientists: Earthquake Had Been Brewing For 170 Years

ECUADOR - Educators to meet in Ecuador

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COLOMBIA - Without Uribe, Santos Leads in Colombia

BRAZIL - Lula Keeps Extraordinary Rating in Brazil

MEXICO - Half of Mexicans Content with President Calderón

CUBA -  CUBA WILL REQUIRE MEDICAL INSURANCE OF ALL VISITORS

COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA - Mediator sees progress in Venezuela, Colombia spat (Reuters)

CUBA - A Good Old Age in Old Havana

LATIN AMERICA - Women's Rights Laws - Where's the Enforcement?

MEXICO, CANADA - Canada Moves to Oversee Mining Firms

MEXICO - Legion of Christ Scandal Escalates

CHILE - In Pinochet's shadow

LATIN AMERICA - LATIN UNASUR BLOC MEETING AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING

ECUADOR, IRAN -  Ecuador's VP in Iran for talks

PERU - Peru's Oscar film | Dogwoof Film

ARGENTINA - Magnitude 4.6 - SALTA, ARGENTINA

BRAZIL - Brazil sentences Italian extremist in extradition row

CUBA - Cuban hunger striker vows to go until he dies

VIRGIN ISLANDS, US - Police: USVI senator tried to strangle girlfriend

MEXICO - Ambush kills 2 Mexican federal police, wounds 3

VENEZUELA - Venezuela telecom agency rejects anti-Chavez TV

CHILE - Doctors warn of health threat from Chile wreckage

COSTA RICA - 4.4 EARTHQUAKE REGISTERED IN COSTA RICA

COSTA RICA - Costa Rica Hams to pay up to $150.00 per license

MEXICO - Red Cross is latest victim of Mexican drug war

MEXICO - Author: Prohibition Turned Juarez into Sin City for Texans

PERU -  Riots break out in Piura, Peru after government tries to relocate vendors

COLOMBIA - Authorities defuse FARC bomb in Arauca

MEXICO, US - Footage from camera ressembles missing Fallbrook family from California

FALKLAND ISLANDS - EU stays clear of Falkland Islands oil dispute

VENEZUELA - Venezuela Strengthens National Health System, Marks Advance in Fight Against MALARIA, DENGUE, CHAGAS ...

 

 

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