Latin America News

LA PAZ, Bolivia - Where some see only an edible, hog-sized jungle rodent, others see economic opportunity. Full Story »

KOUROU, French Guiana - Officials have postponed the rocket launch of a military observation satellite for France's defense ministry. Full Story »

CARACAS, Venezuela - A Venezuelan court has issued a warrant for the arrest of an ally-turned-critic of President Hugo Chavez. Full Story »

ASUNCION, Paraguay - When he was a Roman Catholic bishop, Fernando Lugo taught liberation theology to uplift the poor. Now president, he is in the uncomfortable position of sending special forces into Paraguay's northern forests to hunt kidnappers whose leaders include a former student and his former altar boy. Full Story »

MEXICO CITY - Amnesty International said that Mexican soldiers have carried out torture and forced disappearances while fighting drug cartels. Full Story »

VERACRUZ, Mexico - Mexican prosecutors say they have arrested a suspect wanted by the FBI in the 2004 rapes of two young girls in Pennsylvania. Full Story »

LIMA, Peru - Peru's military is close to a deal to buy tanks from China, the defense minister said Tuesday. Full Story »

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Honduras' president-elect said Tuesday he wants amnesty for ousted President Manuel Zelaya and for all of those involved in the June 28 coup that deposed him. Full Story »

RIO DE JANEIRO - Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Full Story »

CARACAS, Venezuela - A group of college students ended a hunger strike after 17 days following a meeting Tuesday with Organization of American States representatives to air their concerns about human rights in Venezuela. Full Story »

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AFP) - Mexican authorities closed a barite mine run by a Canadian-Mexican company almost two weeks after the killing of a leading local activist enflamed tensions in the area. Full Story »

SAO PAULO - Authorities arrested five men and one woman accused of tunneling their way to nearly $6 million over the weekend while Brazil was gripped with football fever, but detectives recovered only a tiny fraction of the stolen cash, police said Tuesday. Full Story »

SAO PAULO (AFP) - Heavy rain brought Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo grinding to a halt on Tuesday and reportedly claimed the lives of six people in landslides. Full Story »

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Complaints of torture, murder and illegal detention by the Mexican army have jumped as soldiers have been dragged into a long, gruesome battle with powerful drug cartels, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Full Story »

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain. Full Story »

MEXICO CITY - Near-simultaneous grenade attacks on offices, businesses and gas stations in a northern Mexican state slightly injured three people, prosecutors said Tuesday. Full Story »

BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil's presidential spokesman has reiterated that the country does not plan to recognize the incoming Honduran administration and denied that Brazil's president and chief of staff have made contradictory statements about the Central American nation's elections. Full Story »

MIAMI (Reuters) - At El Leoncita Cuban & Mexican Restaurant near the Kennedy Space Center on Florida's "space" coast, a bar sign says it all: Full Story »