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Havana sees US invasion at key art festival

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:55:55 -0400

Ruben Alpizar never met the American collector who fell in love with his painting of a plummeting Icarus against a starry background, hanging on the wall of a Spanish colonial-era fortress across the bay from Havana. Nor did he get a name or a hometown, or even learn whether the buyer was a man or a woman.

Bud continues to weaken off Mexico's coast

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:53:08 -0400

Bud is weakening and becoming increasingly disorganized in the Pacific just off Mexico.

Weakened storm Bud brushes Mexico's Pacific coast

Sat, 26 May 2012 03:28:12 -0400

Driving rain pelted Mexico's Pacific coast early Saturday as a weakened Tropical Storm Bud moved by a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages south of Puerto Vallarta.

Bud weakens to tropical storm off Mexico's coast

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:00:04 -0400

Bud weakened to a tropical storm Friday as heavy rain began to pelt a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.

Bud tames to tropical storm off Mexico's coast

Fri, 25 May 2012 20:01:30 -0400

Forecasters say the system that was once powerful Hurricane Bud has tamed to a tropical storm as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast.

Hurricane Bud roars toward Mexican coast

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:38:01 -0400

Hurricane Bud lost a little of its sting early Friday, but remained a potent Category 2 storm as it headed toward a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.

Brazil's leader vetoes portions of new forest law

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:15:45 -0400

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a line-item veto Friday to send back parts of a congressional bill that loosened the nation's benchmark law protecting the Amazon rainforest — a veto the government said would prevent increased deforestation.

Hurricane warning issued for Mexico ahead of Bud

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:56:44 -0400

Hurricane Bud weakened to a Category 2 storm as it headed early Friday toward an area of beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico's Pacific coast stretching south from Puerto Vallarta.

Investors plan soccer stadium for Haiti shantytown

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:05:50 -0400

A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles.

Mexico pres front-runner promises to cut violence

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:47:13 -0400

Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexico's two most powerful drug cartels.

Hurricane Bud weakens to a Categorty 2 storm

Fri, 25 May 2012 05:02:57 -0400

Hurricane Bud has weakened to a Category 2 storm in the Pacific as it approaches Mexico's coast.

Jamaican fraud probe reveals links to politicians

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:55:21 -0400

David Smith was a large-living and influential figure in Jamaica before courts in two countries knocked him down as a fraud artist. He splurged on luxury cars and mansions, flew in a Learjet and sponsored concerts and athletic events. Now court documents say he also was spreading his Ponzi-scheme wealth to the country's politicians.

Rio issues land titles to slum residents

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:31:38 -0400

The home Jose Nazare Braga built in the Rocinha shantytown is his life's work, an investment that grew from a shack to a three-story building over 30 years. A restaurant and a paper-goods store on the ground floor provide income, and his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren live above.

Brazil subway workers end strike in Sao Paulo

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:13:50 -0400

Subway workers went on strike in Brazil's biggest city on Wednesday, but ended it five hours later after halting a system used daily by more than 4 million people and snarling the city's already difficult traffic.

Iran is offered new plans to ease nuclear concerns

Wed, 23 May 2012 12:20:43 -0400

Iran traded proposals with six world powers, including the United States, Wednesday in a new round of talks aimed at persuading Tehran to curb its nuclear program and ease concerns it wants to make atomic weapons. But divisions over sanctions complicated the discussions.

Iran seeks concessions in Baghdad nuclear talks

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:11:38 -0400

Iran and six world powers resumed talks Wednesday over Tehran's nuclear program, with the Iranians pushing for specific timetables and goals but Westerns leaders signaling they want more disclosures before offering rewards.

Iran signals wider UN access as nuclear talks loom

Wed, 23 May 2012 01:14:33 -0400

Iran has made the first move in attempts to gain an edge in nuclear talks with the U.S. and other world powers: It agreed in principle to allow U.N. inspectors to restart probes into a military site suspected of harboring tests related to atomic weapons.

Hunt for trafficker terrorizes Honduran villagers

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:26:49 -0400

A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English as they battered down doors and detained locals in the hunt for a drug trafficker.

UN nuclear chief : Deal with Iran reached on probe

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:29:04 -0400

Despite some remaining differences, a deal has been reached with Iran that will allow the U.N. nuclear agency to restart a long-stalled probe into suspicions that Tehran has secretly worked on developing nuclear arms, the U.N. nuclear chief said Tuesday.

Brazil's economy to grow less than expected

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:12:19 -0400

Brazil's finance minister is lowering the forecast for the South American country's economic growth this year, and he blames the global financial crisis.

Cuba's first daughter has gone beyond Castro name

Tue, 22 May 2012 15:20:13 -0400

She has her uncle's penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity.

ONU: Acuerdo con Irán en inspección nuclear

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:01:07 -0400

Pese a ciertas diferencias que perduran fue logrado un acuerdo entre Irán y el organismo nuclear de las Naciones Unidas que permitirá a sus observadores reanudar la inspección de instalaciones atómicas, ante la sospecha de que el gobierno de Teherán trabaja secretamente para producir ojivas nucleares, dijo el martes el director de la AIEA.

Argentina's long economic boom coming to an end

Tue, 22 May 2012 09:55:09 -0400

Argentina's nine-year economic expansion is slowing sharply, according to analysts, who predict growth of 2.5 percent to 3 percent this year, half the 5.1 percent projected by the government's 2012 budget and far below last year's 8.9 percent rise.

Commando raid followed Honduran drug shooting

Tue, 22 May 2012 08:07:37 -0400

The gunfire from a U.S.-backed Honduran anti-drug mission that appears to have targeted civilians by mistake wasn't the only terror that night more than a week ago, villagers say. They describe heavily armed commandos storming into homes and manhandling residents, and they think American agents joined in.

Jefe de agencia atómica de ONU dice llega a acuerdo con Irán

Tue, 22 May 2012 05:20:28 -0400

El director general de la Agencia Internacional de Energía Atómica dijo el martes que había llegado a un acuerdo con Irán para inspecciones de sospechas de fabricación de armas atómicas y agregó que el acuerdo será firmado "dentro de poco".