Barack Obama, who threatened during the presidential campaign to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement unless he could renegotiate it, may delay trying to rework the accord as he focuses on the U.S. economic crisis.
On the same day that American voters elected Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States, Bolivian President Evo Morales showed U.S. narcotics agents in his country the door. Morales gave the Drug Enforcement Agency three months to pack up and leave Bolivia, accusing DEA operatives of "political espionage" and inciting violence in the country.
Barinas state is Chavez country. President Hugo Chavez was born here, his father has governed it for 10 years, and now his brother is seeking the governor's job.
Obama, Democrats should support deal with close ally
Government opponents rejected a vote recount that on Thursday confirmed the ruling party's candidate won a disputed race to become mayor of Nicaragua's capital, because they said international observers had not participated.
Nicaragua's main opposition party said local elections swept by President Daniel Ortega's leftist Sandinistas were fraudulent and on Tuesday demanded an international review of the results.
An attorney who has defended bankers and businessmen in some of Mexico's highest-profile cases rose to the powerful post of interior secretary Monday after a mysterious plane crash killed the government's No. 2 leader.
Uruguay's Senate voted Tuesday to allow abortion during the first trimester - a rare step in a Latin American nation. President Tabare Vasquez has said he will veto the measure.
Following a day of political violence that swept across the capital and other parts of the country after both of the main candidates for mayor of Managua declared victory in Sunday's hotly contested municipal elections, Nicaragua's private sector leaders are calling for a nationwide recount with the help of international observers.
Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista party claimed victory Monday in nationwide municipal elections, but rival parties said the early returns were misleading and the U.S. government expressed concern about the vote.
The Miami trial of a Venezuelan businessman, which ended last week with his conviction, provided a rare opportunity to examine the inner workings of an efficient network of corruption operating within nearly every level of Venezuelan government.
Many in Latin America believe Barack Obama's victory offers the chance for improved relations with the United States.
Across Latin America and the Caribbean, President-elect Barack Obama's historic electoral victory drew praise and congratulations on Wednesday, expressions of hope for a gentler yet more engaged U.S. foreign policy and not a few rueful admissions of lingering prejudices at home.
The wives of two Nicaraguan political candidates say they were injured by rock-throwing members of the governing Sandinista party during a campaign stop.
Honduras is postponing its presidential primaries because of bad weather. The country's Congress says it will push back the elections by two weeks to Nov. 30.
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, the governor of Puerto Rico who's facing charges of campaign finance fraud, lost by a sizable margin to resident Commissioner Luis Fortuño.
Puerto Rico Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, facing charges of campaign finance fraud, was trounced at the polls Tuesday by the island's nonvoting representative in Congress, who easily sailed to victory in what his supporters called a ``historic landslide.''
A woman linked to the party of gubernatorial candidate Luis Fortuno has been arrested in Puerto Rico for alleged ballot stuffing.
Mired in a recession and caught in the middle of a mud-slinging campaign, Puerto Rican voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to give an incumbent governor who faces more than two dozen federal charges another four years in office.
Two in three Latin Americans either don't care who wins Tuesday's U.S. presidential election or don't think the outcome will matter, according to a survey in 18 countries.
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