Argentine Senate rejects export tax
In a stunning blow to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's Senate early Thursday morning narrowly defeated a controversial increase in grain export taxes that has sparked four months of paralyzing protests by farmers.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Having terrorized police and prosecutors across the country, Mexico's drug cartels are escalating their battle with the government by turning their sights on politicians. The most recent threat target is the governor of Chihuahua state, which borders Texas.
Venezuela's top military prosecutor urged a former defense minister Thursday to cooperate in a corruption probe, but denied the case is retaliation for his criticisms of President Hugo Chávez's government
An Argentine Senate vote rejecting divisive export taxes Thursday may boost grain supply and put more food on the world's tables - if President Cristina Fernandez accepts the surprise veto by lawmakers from her own party.
When democracy returned to Chile nearly two decades ago after the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, rivals on the political left and center realized they needed to work together to make sure the bad old days of political polarization didn't return.
Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chávez, says rocky relations with Washington are unlikely to improve if Democrat Barack Obama is elected the next U.S. president.
Haitian police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who had stormed past barricades near the National Palace during a rally marking the 55th birthday of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who had stormed past barricades near the National Palace during a rally marking the 55th birthday of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Tuesday.
Peter vs. Portia round two. Disappointed by the leadership of the opposition People's National Party leader Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica's former national security minister, Peter Phillips, is seeking to unseat her.
Tens of thousands of voters in Grenada are expected to head to the polls Tuesday, in what political observers are calling a high-stakes race between Prime Minister Keith Mitchell's ruling New National Party and the opposition National Democratic Congress.
With at least one of his colleagues criticizing the lack of progress being made by the 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding is standing behind the regional trade bloc. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have his own criticism.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Mauricio Funes, a 48-year-old television journalist and newcomer to politics, has jolted El Salvador by grabbing a sizable early lead in the race as the candidate of the leftist group that fought a guerrilla war in the country two decades ago.
U.S. presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain supports ending subsidies for U.S. ethanol production and would back Brazil's inclusion on an expanded United Nations Security Council, a Brazilian newspaper reported Sunday.
Nicaragua's government has barred two political parties from running in the country's Nov. 9 municipal elections. The country's electoral agency said Wednesday that the Sandinista Renovation Movement had failed to meet a deadline for naming party representatives in all of the country's electoral districts.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Leftist ideology may be gaining ground in Latin America. But it will never set foot on the manicured lawns of Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala City. (May need to register)
REUTERS
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, whose "Democratic Security" policies have put leftist rebels on the defensive and sparked economic growth, has refused to rule out a run for a third term in office.
Jamaica's police commissioner withdrew his resignation on Tuesday, saying he had changed his mind and would keep leading a department that faces corruption charges and a rise in killings.
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd says ''a change is coming'' to Washington this November that will improve its ties with Latin America. The Connecticut senator and former Democratic presidential candidate met with Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera in La Paz Wednesday to smooth delicate relations between their countries.
A new South American union was born Friday as leaders of the region's 12 nations set out to create a continental parliament.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Actor Vin Diesel has stopped chasing bad guys long enough to endorse the president of the Dominican Republic for re-election.
