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  • Police tape surrounds a crime scene where a man died and other was injured after a shooting in Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Tijuana`s Security Secretary Alberto Capella was fired Monday.

    Mexican suspected in police killings beheaded

    A man suspected of shooting his mother and killing three police officers called to the scene was found beheaded in southern Mexico on Tuesday, authorities said. Photo Gallery Available

  • Brazil describes new plan to slow deforestation

    Brazil plans to boost spending and programs to significantly slow destruction of the Amazon rain forest by 2017, aiming to reduce global warming by slashing the amount of carbon dioxide emitted when trees are burned.

  • Chavez urges quick action to end term limits

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged his supporters on Monday to move quickly on organizing a vote on abolishing term limits - a change that could clear the way for him to stay in office another decade.

  • Feud over horse race leads to 17 Guatemala deaths

    Mexican and Guatemalan drug traffickers arguing about a horse race in a rural border town began a series of gunbattles in which 17 people died, police said Monday.

  • A soldier secures the perimeter of a crime scene, background, where nine decapitated bodies were founded in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008. Beheadings, kidnappings and daylight shootings have become common in the border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez as drug cartels fight over smuggling routes into the United States. President Felipe Calderon has sent some 40,000 troops and federal police across Mexico to try to stop the killings.

    9 headless bodies found in Mexican border city

    The bodies of nine decapitated men were found in a vacant lot in Tijuana Sunday, part of a wave of violence that claimed at least 23 lives over the weekend in this border city plagued by warring traffickers, authorities said.

  • Baseball star Alex Rodriguez, of the New York Yankees, right, waves to photographers alongside Telmex owner Carlos Slim during a baseball clinic for children on the outskirts of Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008.

    Madonna, Alex Rodriguez in Mexico City

    Alex Rodriguez and Madonna were together - in the same city, anyway. Video Available Photo Gallery Available

  • A man, wearing a T-shirt declaring "I am gay," dances during a march marking World AIDS Day in Saint Marc, Haiti, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008. Haiti, a nation of 9 million, remains the most affected by HIV in the Caribbean, itself the region with the highest infection rate outside Sub-Saharan Africa.

    Openly gay marchers debut at Haiti AIDS rally

    A dozen men in T-shirts declaring "I am gay" and "I am living with HIV/AIDS" marched with hundreds of other demonstrators through a Haitian city on Sunday in what organizers called the Caribbean nation's first openly gay march. Photo Gallery Available

  • Colombia recalls Venezuela consul on Chavez threat

    Colombia recalled its top diplomat in Venezuela's second largest city on Sunday after President Hugo Chavez threatened to expel the official for allegedly expressing support for his political opponents.

  • 60 observers arrive for Honduras primaries

    A group of at least 60 international observers has arrived in Honduras ahead of the Central American country's presidential primaries.

  • Brazil leader asks God to halt rains, proposes aid

    Brazil's president asked God to halt the devastating rains that have killed at least 116 people in a southern state and offered new plans on Monday to help tens of thousands of people rebuild ruined homes and businesses.

  • Mexican president vows to clean up corruption

    President Felipe Calderon pledged Sunday to clean up corruption within his administration and vowed that his government would never negotiate with drug lords.

  • Ingrid Betancourt, a former presidential candidate rescued from the Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Bogota, Sunday, Nov. 30. 2008. Betancourt returned Saturday to Colombia from France, where she flew after she was rescued from the FARC on July 2, 2008, during a military operation.

    Ex-hostage Betancourt on her fears

    The world's most celebrated ex-hostage, home for the first time since her July rescue and embarking on a South American humanitarian mission, said Sunday that the brevity of her surprise visit to Colombia owes to deep fears. Photo Gallery Available

  • Venezuela, Russia to start naval exercises Monday

    Venezuela's state news agency says three days of joint naval exercises with Russia will kick off in Venezuelan waters on Monday.

  • A flood victim carries donated clothes at a shelter set up in a school in Gaspar, Brazil, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Flooding and mudslides have killed at least 100 people in southern Brazil.

    Brazil rescuers resume search for flood victims

    Rescue workers seized a window of clear skies Sunday to resume searching for victims of devastating floods that have killed 110 people and ravaged more than a dozen cities in southern Brazil. Photo Gallery Available

  • A Catholic faithful holds up an image of the late brother Jose Olallo Valdes (1820-1889) during his Mass of Beatification in Camaguay, Cuba, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. The ceremony is the first beatification to take place in Cuba, and is the last step before canonization, when the Roman Catholic Church recognizes a person as a saint.

    Raul Castro attends first beatification in Cuba

    Thousands of Roman Catholic faithful and even President Raul Castro gathered Saturday for the beatification of a monk known as the "father of the poor" - the first ceremony of its kind on Cuban soil. Photo Gallery Available

  • Georgia cuts ties to Nicaragua

    Georgia says it is cutting diplomatic relations with Nicaragua after the Central American nation recognized the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

  • Cuba's President Raul Castro, right, and Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Jose Marti monument in Havana, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. The Cuban national flag seen at the background. Russia's president visited old Cold War ally Cuba on Thursday, spending hours with President Raul Castro on the final leg of a Latin America tour designed to increase Moscow's profile in a region long dominated by the United States.

    Russian president visits Castro

    Russia's president met with revolutionary icon Fidel Castro on Friday, discussing Guantánamo Bay and hopes for a multipolar world with Cuba's former leader during a tour of Latin America aimed at raising Moscow's presence in the region. Photo Gallery Available

  • Chavez asks military, backers to prepare for fight

    President Hugo Chavez is asking the military and his supporters to prepare for a showdown with his newly elected political opponents, telling his backers that they must be "prepared to die for the revolution."

  • Peru economy grows 9.5 pct in 3Q, region's fastest

    Peru's economy grew 9.5 percent in the third quarter, the fastest pace in Latin America.

  • Brazil govt: Amazon deforestation up slightly

    Destruction of Brazil's vast Amazon rain forest appeared to accelerate slightly over the past year after slowing since 2004, the government said on Friday.


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