Associated Press
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 00:00
Police say five teenage beggars who worked as boot cleaners in the Dominican Republic have been charged with killing a 7-year-old boy who was part of their group.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 00:00
The president of El Salvador denied Wednesday that his government had rewarded his country's two largest street gangs for striking a truce credited with a dramatic drop in the staggering national homicide rate.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 00:00
Bolivia's governing Movement Toward Socialism party has unanimously backed President Evo Morales' candidacy for re-election, though the vote doesn’t come until December 2014.
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after a five-day round of radiation therapy and says the cancer treatments are going well.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
Communist government rebuffs Benedict XVI's call for political change but Fidel Castro willing to meet pontiff.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
Just before Monday's Mass was to begin in Santiago's main square, the man wearing a dark T-shirt and cap yelled "Down with the Revolution! Down with the dictatorship!" near journalists covering the ceremony.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
Elaine Wilson's voice rose in anger Tuesday as she described a police shooting in her impoverished community that she claims killed her 45-year-old sister almost two weeks ago.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
Puerto Rico's election commission says it will for the first time in history recount thousands of votes cast during the island's local primary last week following allegations of irregularities.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
A government spokesman says President Otto Perez Molina will meet with the protesters Tuesday afternoon.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
Gen. Raul Salazar says police tried to repel the protesters, many of them fishermen, in the northern coastal town of Sechura on Tuesday with tear gas but were forced to use firearms. He hasn't released details on how the 24-year-old victim died.