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World News >> Latin America

Venezuela punishes 80 firms for power use (Reuters)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attends a news conference at Miraflores Palace in Caracas February 25, 2010. REUTERS/Jorge SilvaReuters - Venezuela announced on Sunday 24-hour power cutoffs for 80 firms that have failed to reduce electricity usage in the first punitive measures of a nationwide drive to save energy amid an electricity crisis.



03/21/2010 - 01:09 PM

 

Frustrations await Bush, Clinton visit to Haiti (AP)

A girl walks at a homeless earthquake survivors camp during heavy rains in Port-au-Prince, Friday, March 19, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - One restored a Haitian president to power; the other flew him back out again. Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are visiting Haiti on Monday, reminding the country of its tumultuous recent past just as frustration over an uneven earthquake relief effort is bringing politics back to the surface.



03/21/2010 - 12:09 PM

 

UN: 2 killed in quake collapse in northern Haiti (AP)
AP - A U.N. spokesman says a small earthquake in northern Haiti has collapsed an apartment building and killed two people.
03/21/2010 - 09:55 AM

 

Mexico's drug war takes growing toll on Americans (AP)

Police, Army and paramedics stand next to a pick-up truck with the bodies of two men dead in the cabin on the Mazatlan-Culiacan highway near the town of Elota, Mexico, Saturday March 20, 2010. According to authorities at least 8 men were killed during the incident in what appears to be an ambush of a crime gang by a rival group. (AP Photo/Christiann Davis)AP - More Americans in Mexico are falling victim to a wave of drug violence sweeping the country, a change driven home by the recent killing of a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband who were gunned down after leaving a children's birthday party.



03/21/2010 - 01:45 AM

 

Magnitude-5.6 quake strikes near Guantanamo, Cuba (Reuters)
Reuters - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Guantanamo city in eastern Cuba on Saturday, sending residents fleeing into the streets but a local government official said there were no casualties.
03/20/2010 - 04:51 PM

 

Moderate earthquake, aftershock shake eastern Cuba (AP)
AP - A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported.
03/20/2010 - 03:54 PM

 

Chavez opponent charged for televised remarks (AP)
AP - Venezuelan prosecutors charged a government opponent with conspiracy and other crimes Friday after he said on a television program that the country has become a haven for drug trafficking.
03/19/2010 - 10:34 PM

 

Gunmen block roads in Mexico's drug-plagued north (Reuters)
Reuters - Armed men likely linked to drug gangs blocked highways with trucks and buses in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey on Friday in an apparent attempt to hamper army operations near the U.S. border.
03/19/2010 - 09:06 PM

 

Ex-leader won't return to Venezuela, wife says (AP)

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez looks up as he waits for Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, not seen,  prior to a meeting at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Wednesday, March 17, 2010.(AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - The wife of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez ridiculed an attempt to extradite her husband from the United States, suggesting that President Hugo Chavez is attempting to create a spectacle to distract from domestic problems.



03/19/2010 - 07:01 PM

 

Chile unveils $110 million reconstruction plan (AFP)

A man cleans the debris around his house which was destroyed by the massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Constitucion, some 350 kms south of Santiago on March 11. Chile unveiled an initial, 110-million-dollar reconstruction plan Friday to put the central region back on its feet after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.(AFP/Ariel Marinkovic)AFP - Chile unveiled an initial, 110-million-dollar reconstruction plan Friday to put the central region back on its feet after a devastating earthquake and tsunami.



03/19/2010 - 04:03 PM

 

'Lawyer' for US missionaries in Haiti is arrested (AP)
AP - A fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children was arrested on human-trafficking charges, authorities said Friday.
03/19/2010 - 03:45 PM

 

Legal adviser to U.S. Haiti missionaries arrested (Reuters)
Reuters - A Dominican Republic man who acted as legal adviser to a group of U.S. missionaries held for several weeks in Haiti on child kidnapping charges has been arrested in Santo Domingo, local police said on Friday.
03/19/2010 - 03:27 PM

 

Chile lowers death toll from February quake to 452 (AP)

Soldiers work on an earthquake damaged railway near Constitucion, Chile, Sunday, March 21, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Feb. 27, causing widespread damage. (AP Photo/Cristobal Fuentes)AP - Chile is lowering the confirmed death toll from its February earthquake to 452 victims.



03/19/2010 - 02:05 PM

 

Seven arrested in El Paso drug cartel murder-kidnapping (AFP)

The Mexican Army overflies the area around the Ciudad Juarez-El Paso bridge, in the border between Mexico and the United States on March 15. Seven people have been arrested in the El Paso, Texas kidnapping of a drug cartel member who was taken across the border and murdered in Mexico, officials said Friday.(AFP/File/Jesus Alcazar)AFP - Seven people have been arrested in the El Paso, Texas kidnapping of a drug cartel member who was taken across the border and murdered in Mexico, officials said Friday.



03/19/2010 - 01:51 PM

 

Dominican Republic arrests man sought in child trafficking (AFP)

A row of police women in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Dominican police have arrested a man linked to US missionaries trying to take children out of Haiti who also is sought for exploitation of minors and other charges in three countries, officials said Friday.(AFP/File/Vanessa Kurz)AFP - Dominican police have arrested a man linked to US missionaries trying to take children out of Haiti who also is sought for exploitation of minors and other charges in three countries, officials said Friday.



03/19/2010 - 01:30 PM

 

Japan to boost Haiti aid to $100 mln: report (AFP)

Japan will boost its aid to quake-hit Haiti to 100 million dollars, a report said on Friday as the country's foreign minister, Katsuya Okada, prepared to visit the impoverished Caribbean nation this weekend.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Japan will boost its aid to quake-hit Haiti to 100 million dollars, a report said Friday as the country's foreign minister prepared to visit the impoverished Caribbean nation this weekend.



03/19/2010 - 12:36 AM

 

Venezuela asks for details of charges in ETA case (AP)

A Spanish citizen is escorted by Spanish police officers as she is deported at the Maiquetia airport in Caracas, Thursday, March 18, 2010. Venezuelan authorities repatriated 18 Spanish inmates, serving time on drug-trafficking charges, to complete the remainder of their sentences in Spain, Venezuela's government said. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Venezuela has asked authorities in Spain to detail their accusations against an alleged ETA operative accused of helping the Basque separatist group arrange explosives training with Colombian rebels in Venezuela.



03/18/2010 - 10:55 PM

 

Anger over freeing man convicted in bishop murder (AP)
AP - Guatemalan human rights groups expressed outrage Thursday over a judge's decision to release a former army colonel convicted of killing a prominent Roman Catholic bishop more than a decade ago.
03/18/2010 - 10:45 PM

 

Mayor vows to clean up Venezuela's filthy capital (AP)
AP - It's a dirty job, and now the government's gonna do it.
03/18/2010 - 07:39 PM

 

A symbol of the slave trade joins US and Cuba (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2007, file photo, the Freedom Schooner Amistad, a near-replica of the ship that sparked a 19th century slave revolt, flies Sierra Leonean and American flags as it sails into port in central Freetown, Sierra Leone, the original West African homeland of many of the Amistad captives. In March 2010, the stately black scooner will sail through a narrow channel into Havana's protected harbor, its two masts bearing the rarest of sights — the U.S. Stars and Stripes, with the Cuban flag fluttering nearby. It's a replica of the Cuban slave ship that sailed from Havana in 1839 with a cargo of African captives only to become an icon of the abolitionist movement.  (AP Photo/Nazia Parvez, File)AP - It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a slave-carrying schooner slipping into Havana's harbor flying two flags — those of the United States and Cuba.



03/18/2010 - 06:42 PM

 

 

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