World - AP Latin America

CARACAS, Venezuela - Hundreds of university students held protests in Venezuela on Wednesday to condemn the fatal shooting of an undergraduate during a demonstration earlier this week. Full Story »

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 »

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 »

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 »

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Gunmen on motorcycles ambushed and killed Honduras' top anti-drug official in the capital Tuesday, just two months before he planned to retire and move to Canada. Full Story »