BBC (UK)
Monday, July 1, 2013 - 00:00
A candidate in next week's regional elections in Mexico has been critically injured in a gun attack in the south of the country.
Monday, July 1, 2013 - 00:00
A US court has sentenced a former governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo to 11 years in prison for money laundering.
Friday, June 28, 2013 - 00:00
Brazil "lost a great opportunity" to improve public services when it won the right to host the 2014 football World Cup, Rio de Janeiro's mayor says
Friday, June 28, 2013 - 00:00
Under the new law, corruption will be considered a "heinous crime" and those found guilty will not be eligible for parole or amnesty
Monday, June 24, 2013 - 00:00
Protests have resumed in several cities across Brazil, although on a smaller scale than in the last few days
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 00:00
Brazilians are normally slow to take to the streets, with demonstrations like this not seen since a former President, Fernando Collor de Mello, was forced from office in 1992.
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 00:00
Opposition leaders consider her to be Venezuela's highest-profile political prisoner, while human rights groups and international organisations have called her detention arbitrary and demanded her release
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 00:00
Protesters were complaining about the high cost of the tournament and the 2014 World Cup, in a country still lacking in public services
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 00:00
Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez said the nine had been instructed to go to the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and carry out the plot
Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 00:00
Thanks to the care taken by Mr Segundo Hernandez in Bocas de Satinga, the ICRC has been able to locate the remains of most of the unidentified bodies washed up during the past decade