MiamiHerald.com: Americas AP http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Americas AP http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Americas AP 60 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:47:23 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com Iran prez seeks new legitimacy in visit to Brazil http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1347440.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1347440.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:08 EST For Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil provides some sorely needed political legitimacy for his increasingly isolated nation. Mexico City's famed dance-for-peso halls fading http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1347369.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1347369.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:08 EST Mirna Torres salsas with a gray-bearded man for $1.50 a dance in the Barba Azul, a dark yet garish cabaret decorated like an erotic carnival fun house. Bermuda dismisses ammunition case against US woman http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1346964.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1346964.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:14 EST Bermuda's highest court has struck down the conviction of a Florida woman who accidentally brought the ammunition magazine from her gun to the British island territory. Honduras election sets return to business as usual http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1346686.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1346686.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:29 EST The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Venezuela to get 300 tanks, armored vehicles http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1346623.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1346623.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:59 EST President Hugo Chavez is hailing the forthcoming arrival of 300 Russian-made tanks and armored vehicles, and urging civilians to join government-organized militias to be ready to defend Venezuela from a foreign invasion. Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1346254.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1346254.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:52 EST Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. Venezuela: No direct talks with Colombia on bases http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1345693.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1345693.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:27 EST Venezuela has no interest in talking directly to Colombia to end a monthslong crisis but would support an effort by other South American nations to broker a solution, a top government official said Sunday. Reports: 101-yr-old Brazil architect back at work http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1345216.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1345216.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:37 EST Famed 101-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is reportedly back at work just weeks after surgery for gallstones and an intestinal tumor. Chavez praises alleged terrorist Carlos the Jackal http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344985.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344985.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:42 EST President Hugo Chavez is praising Carlos the Jackal, the imprisoned Venezuelan once notorious for a series of Cold War-era bombings, assassinations and hostage dramas, saying he was a "revolutionary fighter" and not a terrorist. Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344659.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47 EST The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate. Mexico says drug witness died in apparent suicide http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344627.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344627.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:11 EST A top drug cartel suspect who turned state's evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug ties, Mexican law enforcement said Saturday. Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344422.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344422.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:46 EST Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents. Mexican reporter on organized crime goes missing http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344331.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344331.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31 EST Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime. Guatemala reopening international adoptions http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344127.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1344127.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:06 EST Guatemalan officials on Friday announced the resumption of international adoptions after a nearly two-year suspension prompted by the discovery that some babies were being sold. Brazil leader urges freeze on Israeli settlements http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1343896.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1343896.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:51 EST Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is joining his Palestinian counterpart in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians. Honduras interim president may take leave for vote http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342760.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342760.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:16 EST Honduras' interim president said Thursday he may step down temporarily to allow voters to concentrate on the upcoming presidential elections. Peruvian police: Gang killed people for their fat http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342610.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342610.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:36 EST Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although medical experts say they doubt a major market for fat exists. Mexican once put up for oldest woman dies at 119 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342527.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342527.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:36 EST A Mexican once put forward for the title of world's oldest woman has died at 119, government officials said Thursday. Mexico City's transit improvements on track http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342167.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342167.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:16 EST Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe's largest cities. 1st monument at Guyana's Jonestown suicide site http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342007.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/1342007.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:31 EST It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay.