Associated Press
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 00:00
Bolivian authorities say two local journalists have been strangled in the highlands city of El Alto.
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 00:00
Those most tied to Chavez's fate inhabit Nicaragua and Cuba, which have received billions of dollars in gifts, long-term loans and cut-rate oil from Venezuela. Both countries have taken limited steps to soften the blow if Venezuelan aid were to end.
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 00:00
The 39-year-old state governor has also, perhaps inadvertently, blunted some of the sympathy vote that might go to Chavez by shunning direct attacks on the president.
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 00:00
Police in Puerto Rico are trying to find out who dropped off a 6-foot-long (1.8-meter) military torpedo at a metal recycling center along the island's north coast.
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 00:00
Venezuela's military high command reaffirmed its loyalty to President Chavez in a public show of support a day after Chavez's departure for Cuba to undergo surgery removing a possibly cancerous tumor.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 00:00
A police spokesman in Haiti says one person has been killed and 120 others revelers have been injured in accidents and in street clashes during Carnival festivities.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 00:00
The screams haunt convicted murderer Marco Antonio Bonilla, even now as Honduras hails him a hero for saving hundreds of inmates from fire raging through their prison.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 00:00
Argentines desperately searched hospitals Thursday in hopes that loved ones survived a train crash that killed 50 people and sent hundreds to emergency rooms.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 00:00
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Peter Welch are traveling to Cuba, Haiti and Columbia to inspect recovery efforts after the 2010 earthquake and to meet with government officials.
Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 00:00
Chavez did not mention who might replace him during an absence that cancer specialists say could last weeks.