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Friday, November 14, 2008 - 00:00
At least one man was killed in rioting over the collapse of a pyramid scheme that offered 70 percent returns and fleeced its mostly poor investors out of millions of dollars
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 00:00
Mexican soldiers have seized 19 light planes from a hangar near the U.S. border believed to be used by drug smuggling gangs, the army and Mexican media said on Thursday
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 00:00
Fidel Castro looked thin and frail but alert in a photograph from last month posted on the Web site of the Russian Orthodox Church and obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday.
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 00:00
Cuba on Wednesday presented a new book by Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 but who authorities claim spent more than 400 hours working on the manuscript.
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 00:00
Clashes between supporters of Nicaragua's ruling FSLN and of the opposite Liberal Constitutionalist Party, exploded after the FSLN claimed victory Monday in Sunday's nationwide municipal elections.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 00:00
Thousands of Colombians have taken part in violent protests in several cities to demand the return of money invested in disreputable financial schemes.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 00:00
The country's Bolsa Familia program – which pays poor mothers to keep their children in school and follow healthcare rules – is reducing poverty.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 00:00
While President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – a former union firebrand – effortlessly bands together with Latin America's left, he just as easily peels away.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 00:00
Uruguay’s Congress approved a measure to overturn a 70-year old ban on abortion, but a presidential veto is expected.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 00:00
Mexico’s Congress was expected on Wednesday to vote through a budget that could increase government spending by 16 per cent, as part of a strategy to spend its way out of the fall-out from the US downturn