Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2200 World - Latin America en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:27:53 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2200 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_tropical_weather ap/20080704/mexico_tropical_weather AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:27:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_tropical_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.6364cf8bec0446109470feda6657113a.noaa_clouds_ny2.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FycelqD3h0tKGPoEQiyEyQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 1:15 PM EDT shows showers and storms associated with a cold front across the Northeast, as well as thunderstorms over the Gulf and off of the East Coast. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)" border="0" /></a>AP - Tropical Storm Douglas weakened to a depression off Mexico's coast on Thursday and was forecast to die at sea.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_tropical_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.6364cf8bec0446109470feda6657113a.noaa_clouds_ny2.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=FycelqD3h0tKGPoEQiyEyQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 1:15 PM EDT shows showers and storms associated with a cold front across the Northeast, as well as thunderstorms over the Gulf and off of the East Coast. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/ts_nm/usa_salmonella_mexico_dc nm/20080704/usa_salmonella_mexico_dc Reuters Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:26:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/ts_nm/usa_salmonella_mexico_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t202946_450x300_us_usa_salmonella_mexico.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=AnJ6F4ZZlNvzGZFDvCla2w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A pile of tomatoes are seen on display at a wholesale produce market in Washington, June 12, 2008. EUTERS/Jim Young (Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The investigation of a salmonella outbreak in the United States is shifting to the southern border to encompass produce imported from Mexico, CNN reported on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080704/ts_nm/usa_salmonella_mexico_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t202946_450x300_us_usa_salmonella_mexico.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=AnJ6F4ZZlNvzGZFDvCla2w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A pile of tomatoes are seen on display at a wholesale produce market in Washington, June 12, 2008. EUTERS/Jim Young (Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_metropolis_footage ap/20080704/argentina_metropolis_footage AP Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:33:12 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_metropolis_footage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.c6135cebf1ca47508d2f5ae70dd66540.argentina_metropolis_lost_scenes_edb105.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5z7EZv2Hx3suOnmSl80fMQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Reporters watch the unearthed lost scenes found from Germany's Fritz Lang's Metropolis film, during its presentation in Buenos Aires, Thursday, July 3, 2008 .(AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)" border="0" /></a>AP - Lost scenes from the sci-fi classic "Metropolis," recently discovered in the archives of a Buenos Aires museum, were shown to journalists for the first time in decades on Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080704/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_metropolis_footage"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080703/capt.c6135cebf1ca47508d2f5ae70dd66540.argentina_metropolis_lost_scenes_edb105.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=5z7EZv2Hx3suOnmSl80fMQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Reporters watch the unearthed lost scenes found from Germany's Fritz Lang's Metropolis film, during its presentation in Buenos Aires, Thursday, July 3, 2008 .(AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/wl_nm/peru_strike_dc nm/20080703/peru_strike_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:50:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/wl_nm/peru_strike_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t184950_450x297_us_peru_strike.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=7k7MjUgrHxcKdVY4tCbUZg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Peruvian mining workers protest in the streets of downtown Lima July 3, 2008. Three unions dropped out of a nationwide mining strike in Peru on Thursday, while workers from other mines said the walkout would go on and marched on Congress to demand a bigger slice of corporate profits. (Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Union support sank for Peru's nationwide mining strike on Thursday, while workers from other mines said the walkout would go on until Congress passed a bill to give them a bigger slice of corporate profits.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/wl_nm/peru_strike_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t184950_450x297_us_peru_strike.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=7k7MjUgrHxcKdVY4tCbUZg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Peruvian mining workers protest in the streets of downtown Lima July 3, 2008. Three unions dropped out of a nationwide mining strike in Peru on Thursday, while workers from other mines said the walkout would go on and marched on Congress to demand a bigger slice of corporate profits. (Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_mexico_dc nm/20080703/usa_politics_mccain_mexico_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:37:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_mexico_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t173646_450x318_us_usa_politics_mccain_mexico.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=MUOw_XlhUwrN.PRd2xPQwA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy attend a news conference during a visit to a new federal police center in Mexico City July 3, 2008. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain took a veiled swipe at Democratic rival Barack Obama over trade on Thursday in the final leg of a Latin American trip aimed at showcasing the Arizona senator's foreign policy credentials.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_mexico_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080704/2008_07_03t173646_450x318_us_usa_politics_mccain_mexico.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=MUOw_XlhUwrN.PRd2xPQwA--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy attend a news conference during a visit to a new federal police center in Mexico City July 3, 2008. (Daniel Aguilar/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guatemala_finding_the_dead ap/20080703/guatemala_finding_the_dead AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:26:38 GMT AP - Guatemala's 36-year civil war cost some 200,000 lives, mostly of Mayan Indians caught between government forces and rebels. Twelve years after peace was signed, forensic anthropologists are still hunting for the missing. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_us ap/20080703/cuba_us AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:47:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_us"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080702/i/r2749640389.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2lSRUw3UjfnuD4IX6wphVw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Soviet-made Chaika and Volga limousines are displayed at Bulgaria's national guard service parking lot in Sofia, July 2, 2008. Soviet-era limousines, which once drove communist leaders like Fidel Castro during visits in Bulgaria, will be auctioned in Sofia next week. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA)" border="0" /></a>AP - A spokesman for the U.S. mission here on Thursday denied Cuba's charge that American diplomats were instigating opposition protests linked to American independence day.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cuba_us"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080702/i/r2749640389.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2lSRUw3UjfnuD4IX6wphVw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Soviet-made Chaika and Volga limousines are displayed at Bulgaria's national guard service parking lot in Sofia, July 2, 2008. Soviet-era limousines, which once drove communist leaders like Fidel Castro during visits in Bulgaria, will be auctioned in Sofia next week. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov (BULGARIA)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_violence ap/20080703/mexico_violence AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:21:20 GMT AP - Four decapitated bodies were found on a street in the Mexican city of Culiacan, blocks away from their severed heads. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080703/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_oil ap/20080703/venezuela_oil AP Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:16:15 GMT AP - Venezuela's state oil company said net income rose 80 percent in the first quarter as world oil prices soared. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/wl_nm/mexico_drugs_dc nm/20080703/mexico_drugs_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:49:25 GMT Reuters - The severed heads of four men were found dumped on a Mexican street on Wednesday with a message accusing a drug gang kingpin of treachery, police said. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/wl_nm/sudan_cuba_dc nm/20080703/sudan_cuba_dc Reuters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:34:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/wl_nm/sudan_cuba_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_02t201812_450x323_us_sudan_cuba.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=wkCsCsz9yKMy8wAgoZ2Kzg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Dr Martha Martin Dar, a southern Sudanese doctor trained in Cuba, attends to patients at Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba June 14, 2008. They left as children and teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the green strangeness of Cuba's Isla de la Juventud. Now, more than two decades later, some of them are back, working as doctors. (Skye Wheeler/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - They left as children and teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the green strangeness of Cuba's Isla de la Juventud.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080703/wl_nm/sudan_cuba_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080703/2008_07_02t201812_450x323_us_sudan_cuba.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=wkCsCsz9yKMy8wAgoZ2Kzg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="Dr Martha Martin Dar, a southern Sudanese doctor trained in Cuba, attends to patients at Juba Teaching Hospital in Juba June 14, 2008. They left as children and teenagers, crossing the border between dry southern Sudan and Ethiopia before being transported half a world away to the green strangeness of Cuba's Isla de la Juventud. Now, more than two decades later, some of them are back, working as doctors. (Skye Wheeler/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702/ts_nm/cuba_usa_dc nm/20080702/cuba_usa_dc Reuters Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:38:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702/ts_nm/cuba_usa_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_02t154034_450x302_us_cuba_usa.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=E3ZafetdTp5_HseeRo3vgg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="A student holds a Cuban flag outside the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana May 15, 2007. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. diplomats of escalating anti-government activities in recent weeks and said its ideological foe, the United States, will be held responsible for whatever happens if the actions continue.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702/ts_nm/cuba_usa_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_02t154034_450x302_us_cuba_usa.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=E3ZafetdTp5_HseeRo3vgg--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="A student holds a Cuban flag outside the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana May 15, 2007. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_general_detained ap/20080702/venezuela_general_detained AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:57:22 GMT AP - An army general protesting the "socialism or death" motto of President Hugo Chavez has been released from military detention, but still could be charged with a crime, his attorney said Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_eu/switzerland_haiti_baby_doc ap/20080702/switzerland_haiti_baby_doc AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:12:10 GMT AP - Millions of dollars frozen in Swiss bank accounts will be given to the government of Haiti if the family of former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier cannot prove by September that the money is legitimate, the Swiss Justice Ministry said Wednesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_police_torture ap/20080702/mexico_police_torture AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:19:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_police_torture"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080701/capt.553ad2506d494d07bb4642d75ffaa2fe.mexico_police_torture_mxhl101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=pFhmVvbmxDVBVHLV3DPiLA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="In this video still taken from the web site of the El Heraldo de Leon on Tuesday July 1, 2008, a policeman undergoes a torture session by fellow officers during a training session for an elite unit in the city of Leon, Mexico. Several videos, first obtained by the Heraldo de Leon newspaper, have created an uproar in Mexico as police struggle with recent scandals over abuses. (AP Photo/El Heraldo de Leon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Videos showing Leon police practicing torture techniques on a fellow officer and dragging another through vomit at the instruction of a U.S. adviser created an uproar Tuesday in Mexico, which has struggled to eliminate torture in law enforcement.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_police_torture"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080701/capt.553ad2506d494d07bb4642d75ffaa2fe.mexico_police_torture_mxhl101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=pFhmVvbmxDVBVHLV3DPiLA--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this video still taken from the web site of the El Heraldo de Leon on Tuesday July 1, 2008, a policeman undergoes a torture session by fellow officers during a training session for an elite unit in the city of Leon, Mexico. Several videos, first obtained by the Heraldo de Leon newspaper, have created an uproar in Mexico as police struggle with recent scandals over abuses. (AP Photo/El Heraldo de Leon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_latam_dc nm/20080702/usa_politics_mccain_latam_dc Reuters Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:46:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_latam_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_02t132813_450x329_us_usa_politics_mccain_latam.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=V1SN0DVazFCO5pZTBLz4.Q--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain accompanied by Senator Joseph Lieberman walk in the Port Society during a visit in the Caribbean port of Cartagena July 2, 2008. (Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Republican John McCain, in an unusual trip to Colombia as a U.S. presidential candidate, called on President Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday to make further progress on human rights while pushing the U.S. Congress to vote on a trade pact between the two countries.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080702/pl_nm/usa_politics_mccain_latam_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080702/2008_07_02t132813_450x329_us_usa_politics_mccain_latam.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=V1SN0DVazFCO5pZTBLz4.Q--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain accompanied by Senator Joseph Lieberman walk in the Port Society during a visit in the Caribbean port of Cartagena July 2, 2008. (Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/panama_pardons_overturned ap/20080702/panama_pardons_overturned AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:45:20 GMT AP - Panama's Supreme Court overturned a presidential pardon of four Cuban emigres accused of plotting to kill Fidel Castro, including former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, officials said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_cuban_migrants ap/20080702/mexico_cuban_migrants AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:44:27 GMT AP - Police found 20 Cuban migrants hidden at two safe houses in the Mexican resort city of Cancun on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080702/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_steel_nationalization ap/20080702/venezuela_steel_nationalization AP Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:43:54 GMT AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday his government is close to a compensation deal for the nationalization of Venezuela's largest steelmaker, Sidor. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080701/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/jamaica_us_missionary_attack ap/20080701/jamaica_us_missionary_attack AP Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:42:57 GMT AP - A U.S. Christian group said Tuesday it will find a new location for its goodwill trips to Jamaica after 39 young missionaries were robbed at gunpoint in the crime-prone capital of Kingston.