Associated Press
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 00:00
Chile's Congress passed an anti-discrimination law Wednesday following the killing of a gay man whose attackers beat him and carved swastikas into his body.
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 00:00
About 150 special operations police officers are patrolling Brazil's biggest shantytown after a police officer was shot to death.
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 00:00
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has left behind his image as an angry leftist for what he's calling his "Republic of Love" campaign in a second try for the Mexican presidency.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 00:00
The Netherlands is pressing former colony Suriname not to grant President Desi Bouterse and others immunity from prosecution for crimes committed under his military dictatorship in the 1980s.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 00:00
It was a family people took pity on, one the government and church helped with free food, used clothes, and farm animals. The men were known as trash pickers. Some of the women were suspected of prostitution.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 00:00
A Santeria leader charged with helping run an organization that allegedly smuggled drugs bound for the U.S. and rigged Puerto Rico's lottery system to launder money was among dozens of suspects arrested Tuesday, according to federal agents.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 00:00
A former state governor in Venezuela has died more than a week after being wounded in a shooting at a restaurant.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 00:00
Eight people have been arrested for allegedly killing two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman in ritual sacrifices by the cult of La Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, prosecutors in northern Mexico said Friday.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 00:00
Venezuela's government is trying to contain inflation by expanding price controls to a list of products including diapers, laundry detergent and bottled water.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 00:00
But Latin America's oldest and most potent guerrilla band has since been weakened by Colombia's U.S.-backed military and Monday's release of six police and four soldiers highlighted its desire for a peaceful solution.