ARGENTINES LINK HEALTH PROBLEMS TO AGROCHEMICALS
By MICHAEL WARREN and NATACHA PISARENKO In this March 29, 2013, photo, former farmworker Fabian Tomasi, 47, shows the condition of his emaciated body as he stands inside his home…
Latin America and Caribbean
ACTIVISTS RELEASE DOGS FROM LAB IN BRAZIL
Demonstrators run away from the Instituto Royal laboratory to escape tear gas fired by police, as a police car burns along a road leading to the lab in Sao Roque,…
ARGENTINE COMMUTER TRAIN SLAMS INTO STATION, AGAIN
By DAMIAN PACHTER Police officers and paramedics carry a wounded passenger to an ambulance after a commuter train slammed into the end of the line when arriving to Once central…
PERU’S JAILED PRESIDENT BEGINS ANOTHER TRIAL
Jailed former President Alberto Fujimori enters the courtroom before the start of his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Fujimori faces…
VENEZUELA EXPECTED TO RELEASE SEIZED SHIP SOON
A Venezuelan Coast Guard boat sits next to the 285-foot survey ship Teknik Perdana docked near the shore in Margarita Island, Venezuela, Sunday Oct. 13, 2013. The U.S.-chartered oil exploration…
MEXICO’S CRACKDOWN ON DRUGS SPURS EXTORTION WAVE
By MARK STEVENSON A police vehicle is parked next to the clinic owned by Dr. Roman Gomez Gaviria on the outskirts of Mexico City, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013. Security has…
JOURNALIST BLASTS US SPY PROGRAM
American journalist Glenn Greenwald, right, speaks to a congressional committee investigating reports based on documents, leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, showing that Brazil was targeted by…
DOCTORS: ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ‘EVOLVING FAVORABLY’
DOCTORS: ARGENTINE PRESIDENT ‘EVOLVING FAVORABLY’ A picture of Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez hangs outside the Favaloro Hospital where she is undergoing surgery on her skull months after she suffered an…