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Latin America stories: 93 news summaries

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 Chavez Masses Troops 
 at Colombia Border 

Leader warns Venezuelans to 'prepare for war'

Nov 10, 09 2:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez has told the Venezuelan people to "prepare for war" and ordered 15,000 troops to the Colombian border. The leader told his soldiers to "defend this sacred nation called Venezuela," and accused Colombia of conspiring with the US to invade and grab the country's oil... More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • Colombia • Hugo Chavez

 Honduras' 
 Ousted Prez 
 Returning 
 to Office 

Deal lets Manuel Zelaya serve remaining 3 months

Oct 30, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(AP) - Honduras' 4-month political standoff appears to be over. After intense lobbying from US diplomats, the coup-installed interim president, Roberto Micheletti, has agreed to allow ousted President Manuel Zelaya to return to office to serve his remaining 3 months. Congress, which backed the June coup that sent Zelaya packing, is expected... More »

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Latin America • Honduras • Organization of American States • Manuel Zelaya • Roberto Micheletti

 Castro Sister: I Worked With CIA 

New book reveals Juanita Castro's involvement with US intelligence

Oct 26, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The sister of Fidel and Raúl Castro worked with the CIA in the 1960s, while the agency was planning to assassinate Fidel and overthrow the revolutionary government. In a new book, Juanita Castro, who now lives in Miami, reveals that she hid opponents of her brothers' regime in her... More »

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CIA • Latin America • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Miami • Raul Castro • Cuban Revolution • Central Intelligence Agency • Juanita Castro

Two Pilots
Face Extradition in Dirty War Death Flights

Some 1,000 Argentines were hurled into sea

Oct 6, 09 5:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two Argentines charged with piloting notorious "death flights" during the country's brutal military dictatorship are facing extradition. The pilots, one arrested in Argentina and the other in Spain, are accused of flying the flights from which more than 1,000 drugged and blindfolded students, intellectuals, and trade unionists... More »

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Latin America • human rights • war crimes • Argentina • disappearance • dictatorship • pilot • Dirty War

obituary

'Voice of Latin America' Mercedes Sosa Dead at 74

Argentine folk singer gave voice to disenfranchised under repressive regimes

Oct 4, 09 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mercedes Sosa, the Argentine folk singer who became a powerful voice of resistance to authoritarian Latin American regimes, died today in Buenos Aires. A leading light of the "nueva canción" (new song) movement that pushed for social justice in the 1960s and '70s, Sosa was 74. "... More »

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entertainment • music • Latin America • Argentina • folk music • Mercedes Sosa • contralto • folk singer

interview

 Chavez Dreamed 
 of Playing in 
 Yankee Stadium 

Venezuelan talks of favorite American things, rips 'assassin' Bush

Sep 25, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chavez is fond of Americans and their culture even if their last president did try to have him killed, he told Larry King yesterday. The usually pugnacious Venezuelan president said he used to dream of playing baseball in Yankee Stadium and is a big fan of Walt Whitman and... More »

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Latin America • Venezuela • assassination • George W. Bush • coup d'etat • Hugo Chavez

 Honduras Barricades Zelaya, 
 Cuts Off Water, Electricity 

Ousted president and 70 others trapped inside Brazilian embassy

Sep 23, 09 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Security forces in Honduras barricaded ousted president Manuel Zelaya inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa overnight, cutting off water, electricity, and telephone service to the building. Zelaya and about 70 other people are enduring a de facto siege, reports the Guardian; troops are stationed on nearby rooftops, speakers are blasting... More »

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Latin America • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • Honduras • coup d'etat • Manuel Zelaya • Honduran army

Salvador Cop, Gangsters Busted in Filmmaker's Murder

Alleged killers come from same gang Christian Poveda chronicled in film

Sep 10, 09 5:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - El Salvador has arrested four gang members and a police officer for last week's murder of French photojournalist and filmmaker Christian Poveda, CNN reports. Another man who allegedly ordered the killing is already in prison, authorities say. The gangsters belong to the same Mara 18 gang that was the subject... More »

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Latin America • murder • documentary • film director • journalist • El Salvador • gangsters • Christian Poveda

Uruguay Legalizes
Gay Adoption

First Latin American nation to let same-sex couples adopt

Sep 10, 09 1:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Uruguay's senate has approved the first law in Latin America allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt children, AFP reports. The bill, backed by leftist President Tabare Vazquez, passed despite fierce objections from the Catholic church and right-wing politicians. Uruguay, traditionally much more liberal than other countries in the region,... More »

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gay rights • Latin America • adoption • Catholic Church • lesbians • Uruguay • gays • gay parent

Argentina Court Rules Pot Prosecution Unconstitutional

Decriminalization of personal use growing trend in Latin America

Aug 26, 09 2:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Argentine supreme court yesterday ruled against punishing personal use of marijuana, calling such laws unconstitutional, the BBC reports. Argentina joins a growing wave of Latin American countries supporting decriminalizing personal use of the drug, a marked contrast to US-backed drug war policy. Perhaps hoping to deflect criticism from churches... More »

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Latin America • Argentina • marijuana • marijuana legalization

'Bourgeois'
Golf Courses Tee Off Chávez

Venezuela shutting down the links—that happen to be near oil

Aug 13, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hugo Chávez has gone after oil conglomerates and media companies, and now he's hitting the capitalist pigs where it hurts: at the golf course. The Venezuelan president is trying to shut down the country's best-known courses, which he believes are part of an anti-Marxist conspiracy, the Independent reports. "... More »

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energy • oil • Latin America • Venezuela • golf • nationalization • South America • golf course • Hugo Chávez • oil industry

(AP) - Ousted president Manuel Zelaya says he can't land at the main Honduras airport because soldiers are blocking the runway with several military vehicles. Groups of police and soldiers are also facing off against thousands of Zelaya supporters around the airfield. Speaking live from the plane carrying him back to Tegucigalpa,... More »

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Latin America • Honduras • coup d'etat • Manuel Zelaya

(AP) - Exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has announced his imminent return home to reclaim his post even though the interim government that overthrew him is vowing to prevent his plane from landing. Zelaya says UN General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann will accompany him on the plane. In a change... More »

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Latin America • Honduras • interim government • Manuel Zelaya

Honduras Refuses OAS Order to Reinstate Prez Zelaya

'Now the OAS has to decide what it will do' says supreme court leader

Jul 3, 09 5:27 PM CDT
(AP) - Honduras' Supreme Court today rejected an ultimatum to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya to power. Court spokesman Danilo Izaguirre says the head of the Organization of American States asked the president of the court to reinstate Zelaya, but he said no. Izaguirre said today: "Now the OAS has to... More »

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Latin America • military coup • Honduras • Organization of American States • Manuel Zelaya

 Honduras Considers 
 Early Election 

Interim gov't may hold Zelaya-free election in effort to end political crisis

Jul 3, 09 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The interim government installed by the military coup in Honduras is considering holding an early election to defuse the country's political crisis, Reuters reports. Roberto Michelletti, who heads up the caretaker government, says he is "in total agreement" with moving forward November's presidential election, in which ousted president Manuel... More »

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Latin America • Honduras • election • coup d'etat • Manuel Zelaya • Roberto Micheletti

ANALYSIS

Obama's Honduras Response Defuses Chávez Bluster

Condemnation of Honduran coup parries accusations of US complicity

Jul 1, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama confounded Hugo Chávez’s attempts to implicate Washington in the Honduran coup by calling for President Manuel Zelaya’s reinstatement, Simon Romero writes for the New York Times. When the coup was announced, Chávez immediately suggested that the US was financing Zelaya’s opponents or, as... More »

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Barack Obama • Latin America • US foreign policy • foreign policy • military coup • Honduras • Hugo Chávez • coup d'etat • President Obama • Manuel Zelaya

Obama Will Try to Rig a Third Term: Limbaugh

Barack, like Honduran prez, just wants to 'rule' for as long as possible

Jun 30, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh says President Obama condemned the military coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in order to “lay a foundation for not being a hypocrite when he tries to serve beyond 2016,” RealClearPolitics reports. The army moved against Zelaya when he tried to eliminate term limits—“basically... More »

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Barack Obama • Latin America • Rush Limbaugh • Constitution • minorities • term limits • President Obama • Manuel Zelaya

(AP) - Honduras' ousted president, bolstered by international support, said he will return home to regain control and urged soldiers to stop cracking down on thousands of supporters who have protested his overthrow. Flanked by Latin American leaders who have vowed to help him regain power, Manuel Zelaya said yesterday he would... More »

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Barack Obama • United Nations • Latin America • Venezuela • military coup • Honduras • UN General Assembly • Hugo Chávez • Organization of American States • coup d'etat • Manuel Zelaya • Jose Miguel Insulza

(AP) - The Honduran Congress has named its leader to replace President Manuel Zelaya following his military ouster and forced exile in Costa Rica. A resolution read on the floor of Congress today accuses Zelaya of "manifest irregular conduct" and "putting in present danger the state of law," a... More »

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Latin America • president • Honduras • referendum • coup d'etat

Amazon Indians Win Repeal of Land Grab Laws

Decision hailed as major victory for indigenous people

Jun 19, 09 5:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Peru's Congress has revoked two laws that led to bloody clashes between police and indigenous protesters, CNN reports. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of ditching the laws that opened up the country's Amazon region to mining, logging, and oil companies. Dozens of people died earlier this month when police moved... More »

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Latin America • mining • Peru • logging • oil companies • Amazon rainforest • indigenous peoples • land rights

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