Tests: No poison in Chilean poet Neruda’s remains
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO FILE – This Oct. 21, 1971 file photo shows Pablo Neruda, poet and then Chilean ambassador to France, talking with reporters in Paris after being named…
South America
VENEZUELA ENVOY: RELATIONS WITH US STILL FROZEN
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Elias Jaua holds a press conference in Mexico City, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. Jaua says efforts to re-establish diplomatic relations between his country and the United States…
Brazilians demand information on Rio slum resident
Rocinha Pacifying Police Unit officers watch as demonstrators gather demanding to know the whereabouts of the mortal remains of Bricklayer Amarildo de Souza who disappeared while in police custody in…
Argentine media czar delivers demand to Clarin
By The Associated Press Martin Sabbatella, head of the Federal Audiovisual Communication Services Authority (AFSCA), Argentina’s broadcast media regulator, right, is surrounded by journalists as he leaves Clarin newspaper after…
ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT APPROVES TV MEDIA LIMITS
By MICHAEL WARREN A man walks by a mural depicting Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez, holding a frame over the image of a man with a Clarin newspaper logo on the…
POLICE: BRAZIL PROTESTERS BEAT UP OFFICER
A demonstrator from the Black Bloc anarchist group throws a Molotov cocktail at a burning bus during a protest against Sao Paulo’s Governor Geraldo Alckmin in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday,…
2ND DEATH FROM ATTACK BY BOLIVIA COCA GROWERS
By PAOLA FLORES Soldiers stand around the coffin of Bolivian soldier Oscar Gironda during a wake at the military barracks in La Paz, Bolivia, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013. A group…
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…