Associated Press
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 00:00
Those shoppers will be casting ballots Sunday in an election in which food security is a key issue, along with crime and power outages
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 00:00
The president of the Commission for Human Rights and Minorities of the lower house of Brazil's Congress says he will not step down despite mounting pressure from critics who say he is homophobic and racist
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 00:00
A mechanic testifying at the genocide trial of ex-strongman Efrain Rios Montt, now 86, became the first person to directly accuse current President Otto Perez Molina of ordering pillaging and executions in the 36-year civil war.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 00:00
Trial began on Monday for more than two dozen police involved in the infamous 1992 massacre at Sao Paulo's Carandiru prison, which left 111 inmates dead
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 00:00
Brazil's federal prosecutor's office has asked police to investigate allegations that former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was involved in the massive cash-for-votes scheme in Congress
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 00:00
The teachers were protesting an educational reform that will submit them to evaluation and loosen union control over hiring and firing
Monday, April 8, 2013 - 00:00
Some analysts have looked favourably on Catatumbo joining the negotiations, saying it is important for the FARC’s military wing to be represented
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Hugo Bernal, a soldier who was a mechanic in an engineering brigade in the area where atrocities were carried out, told the court that Otto Perez Molina, now president, ordered soldiers to burn and pillage during Guatemala's dirty war.
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Critics say that statements made by Congressman Feliciano of the Christian Social Party show that he is homophobic and racist. Feliciano was elected to head the commission last month
Friday, April 5, 2013 - 00:00
Para is among Brazil's most violent and lawless states, notorious for land-related violence, contract killings, slave-like labor conditions and wanton environmental destruction