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  • Cuba economy czar: Reforms entering critical phase

    Communist-led Cuba's experiment with limited capitalism is entering a crucial and transformative phase this year with the decentralization of bloated state-run businesses, the island's economic czar said Tuesday.

  • This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. NSA leaker Edward Snowden claims the spy agency gathers all communications into and out of the U.S. for analysis, despite government claims that it only targets foreign traffic.

    Report: US spy program eyes energy info in LatAm

    A Brazilian newspaper reports that a massive U.S. spy program is widespread throughout Latin America and that it's gathering information on oil and energy.

  • Colombia extradites major drug suspect to US

    Colombian officials say they've extradited a major drug trafficking suspect to the United States.

  • This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. NSA leaker Edward Snowden claims the spy agency gathers all communications into and out of the U.S. for analysis, despite government claims that it only targets foreign traffic.

    Venezuela confirms Snowden asylum request

    Venezuela's president says that his country has received an asylum request from NSA leaker Edward Snowden.

  • Venezuela detects embezzlement from Chinese fund

    Venezuela's president says that five officials with a development fund financed by China have been arrested in connection with the alleged embezzlement of $84 million.

  • This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, on Sunday, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. NSA leaker Edward Snowden claims the spy agency gathers all communications into and out of the U.S. for analysis, despite government claims that it only targets foreign traffic.

    Report: US spy program eyes energy info in LatAm

    A U.S. spy program is widely targeting data on the emails and telephone calls across Latin America, and is focusing on energy issues, not just information related to military, political or terror topics, a Brazilian newspaper reported Tuesday. Photo Gallery Available

  • President Barack Obama, at left. Judge Gladys Kessler, at right.

    Judge faults Guantánamo force-feeding but won't stop it

    A federal judge ruled Monday that she lacks the authority to halt the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantánamo, while pointedly noting that the practice appears to violate international law and that President Barack Obama can resolve the issue. Photo Gallery Available

  • Aristide university in Haiti to create law school

    The university founded by former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is opening a law school program in the Caribbean nation, one of the faculty members said Monday.

  • This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, July 08, 2013 at 10:45 AM EDT shows Tropical Storm Chantal approaching the Lesser Antilles with maximum sustained wind speeds of 45 mph and forecast to strengthen as it moves to the west. Farther west, showers and thunderstorms are seen across the Bahamas. Quiet weather is seen elsewhere in the Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.

    Tropical Storm Chantal passes over Lesser Antilles

    Tropical Storm Chantal raced across small islands in the eastern Caribbean on Tuesday as officials issued a hurricane watch for the southern coast of the Dominican Republic. Photo Gallery Available

  • Police look for suspects in Brazil soccer slaying

    Police in rural Brazil have detained one man and were seeking two others in the slaying of a soccer referee who was killed, dismembered and decapitated by spectators after he stabbed a player to death mid-match, a police official said Monday.

  • Police look for suspects in Brazil soccer slaying

    Police in the northern Brazilian state of Maranhao are searching for two men suspected of taking part in the slaying and beheading of an amateur soccer referee who stabbed a player to death during a match.

  • In this Monday, July 1, 2013, state police and forensic experts stand outside the home of mayoral candidate Carlos Triana Garcia after unknown gunmen opened fire on his home in Tlalixcoyan, Mexico. With only days to go in the campaign for Sunday's elections in 14 states, at least eight local politicians or their family members have been killed. Others have reported being kidnapped or shot at. Triana Garcia of the conservative National Action Party woke up at 4 a.m. Monday to a spray of gunfire on his house in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. No one was injured in that incident, though 11 bullet casings were found.

    Race tight for governor of key Mexico border state

    President Enrique Pena Nieto sought to calm tensions Monday over the still-undecided election for governor of the key Mexican border state of Baja California after both sides claimed victory and authorities said mistakes were made in preliminary vote counts. Photo Gallery Available

  • In this June 22, 2013 photo, a ship sits docked in Rio de la Plata, or River Plate, at the port of Montevideo, Uruguay. Montevideo is a city surrounded by a river _ a river with no an opposite shore. Although it’s called River Plate, it’s practically a sea.

    AP PHOTOS: Montevideo, Uruguay's watery border

    Montevideo is a city defined by a river - the tawny-colored River Plate, so vast it seems to have no opposite shore as it rolls out into the sea. Photo Gallery Available

  • Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, and Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel talk during the second day of a twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Observers will be watching to see if the new vice president is taking on increasing responsibility since assuming the post in what was seen as the beginning of a generational leadership transition.

    Cuba backs Snowden asylum offers from allies

    Cuban President Raul Castro threw his support behind other leftist Latin American governments willing to give asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, calling him a man persecuted for his ideals. Photo Gallery Available

  • Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, and Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel talk during the second day of a twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Observers will be watching to see if the new vice president is taking on increasing responsibility since assuming the post in what was seen as the beginning of a generational leadership transition.

    Castro speech scolds islanders for bad behavior

    Raul Castro spent the lion's share of a prominent speech Sunday scolding his countrymen for all kinds of bad behavior, everything from corruption and theft to public urination and the odoriferous practice of raising pigs in cities. Photo Gallery Available

  • Cuba's President Raul Castro, greets members to parliament at the opening of the second day of a twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 7, 2013. Observers will be watching to see if the new vice president is taking on increasing responsibility since assuming the post in what was seen as the beginning of a generational leadership transition.

    Cuba's Raul Castro backs asylum offers for Snowden

    Raul Castro stood shoulder-to-shoulder Sunday with Latin American countries willing to take in NSA leaker Edward Snowden, but made no reference to whether Cuba itself would offer him refuge or safe passage. Photo Gallery Available

  • Brazil: No police investigation yet in US spying

    Brazil's federal police say they have not yet been asked to investigate a newspaper report that the U.S. collected billions of telephone and email conversations in the Latin American country, possibly by getting some of the information from Brazilian companies.

  • In this June 28, 2013 photo, tourists walk on the shore of the Raymond les bains beach in Jacmel, Haiti. The Haitian government is to trying to revive the country’s long stagnant tourism industry with investments totaling more than $160 million. While many in Haiti welcome anything that can create jobs, some critics are questioning the government’s priority of trying to attract high-end tourists at a time when the country faces so many other problems, such as high unemployment, a deadly cholera outbreak and lack of housing for people displaced by the earthquake more than three years ago.

    Haiti sees big money reviving flagging tourism

    The Club Indigo beach resort north of the Haiti capital was crowded with U.N. peacekeepers, aid workers, diplomats and missionaries on a recent Sunday. But the only real, live tourists seemed to be Anne Fournier and her husband. Photo Gallery Available

  • Tropical Storm Chantal heading to Lesser Antilles

    Tropical Storm Chantal (shahn-TAHL') is racing toward the Lesser Antilles after forming in the Atlantic.

  • Race tight for governor of key Mexico border state

    Both sides claimed victory Monday in the election for governor of the key Mexican border state of Baja California and authorities said mistakes had been made in preliminary vote counts.

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