Associated Press
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 00:00
A Venezuelan television channel that takes a critical stance toward President Hugo Chavez accused the government on Wednesday of excluding it from a new digital television system, and it warned that the action could force it off the open airwaves.
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 00:00
Interior Minister Mauricio Lopez Bonilla told local media that the original account was based on testimony from residents in San Valentin near the Mexican border, but that soldiers and police scanning the area found no sign of any confrontation.
Friday, February 22, 2013 - 00:00
Cuban President Raul Castro has unexpectedly raised the possibility of leaving his post, saying Friday that he is old and has a right to retire. But he did not say when he might do so or if such a move was imminent.
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 00:00
Armed vigilantes in southern Mexico engaged in a shootout Wednesday with a group of men they described as criminals, killing one in what appeared to be the first death related to the month-and-a-half-old "self-defense" movement.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 00:00
A delegation of American lawmakers led by Senator Patrick Leahy arrived in Cuba on Monday, in order to gauge the island's economic changes and to lobby on behalf of Alan Gross, an American whose detention has chilled relations between the two countries.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 00:00
Officials in southern Mexico say armed vigilantes have released the last 42 people they had detained on suspicion of crimes ranging from theft to extortion and murder.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 00:00
Sanchez was also met by supporters and throughout the day in Tweets and a blog posting expressed her joy at being in Brazil
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 00:00
The police chief of the violent Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo is missing
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 00:00
Detallo que "cada secuestro, cada mina antipersona, cada reclutamiento forzado de ninos, ninas y adolescentes y cada accion de las FARC" es un tiro de muerte contra el proceso
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 00:00
Chavez's return could be used to give a boost to his would-be successor and gain time to "consolidate his alternative leader" ahead of a possible new presidential vote this year