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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2200 world World - Latin America en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:47:20 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2200 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091107/wl_nm/us_honduras_election nm/20091107/us_honduras_election Reuters world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:47:20 GMT Reuters - Honduras' ousted president and de facto leader gave signs they would try again on Saturday to form a unity government to guide the country out of a four-month crisis after the process collapsed a day earlier. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guyana_courthouse_fire ap/20091107/cb_guyana_courthouse_fire AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:13:57 GMT AP - Recent arson attacks and shootings in this violence-wracked South American nation are the work of a mastermind living in the United States, Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo alleged. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_prison_torture ap/20091107/lt_mexico_prison_torture AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:28:52 GMT AP - Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_vatican ap/20091107/cb_cuba_vatican AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:07:27 GMT AP - A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church more access to mass media, saying Cubans are a religious people and should be given broadcast access to their pastors. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_paraguay_lugo ap/20091107/lt_paraguay_lugo AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:07:13 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_paraguay_lugo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.4101dac6d41942a6b57c6875792f04d9.paraguay_military__asu107.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=wtUoyizo8PxugWqVmFsv9A--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo speaks during a ceremony at Military Academy in Capiata, near Asuncion, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)" border="0" /></a>AP - Paraguay needed a military shake-up to create opportunities for young officers with a proven commitment to democracy, President Fernando Lugo said Friday in his first explanation for removing his top commanders this week.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_paraguay_lugo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.4101dac6d41942a6b57c6875792f04d9.paraguay_military__asu107.jpg?x=130&y=95&q=85&sig=wtUoyizo8PxugWqVmFsv9A--" align="left" height="95" width="130" alt="photo" title="Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo speaks during a ceremony at Military Academy in Capiata, near Asuncion, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_blogger_detained ap/20091107/cb_cuba_blogger_detained AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:06:42 GMT AP - A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communist island said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security agents about her opposition activity. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_floods ap/20091107/lt_mexico_floods AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:06:25 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_floods"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.706c2f2cd5e04a1baef7931f5f0abc25.mexico_floods_mxgb105.jpg?x=130&y=69&q=85&sig=thi_zgywemtswijW3cIAGw--" align="left" height="69" width="130" alt="A man moves a boat in front of a flooded home near Huimanguillo, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. According to local reports, nearly 200,000 people in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco have been affected by this week's flooding, as more rain fell on the region today. (AP Photo/America Rocio)" border="0" /></a>AP - A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns complained that no help had arrived.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_floods"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.706c2f2cd5e04a1baef7931f5f0abc25.mexico_floods_mxgb105.jpg?x=130&y=69&q=85&sig=thi_zgywemtswijW3cIAGw--" align="left" height="69" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man moves a boat in front of a flooded home near Huimanguillo, Mexico, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. According to local reports, nearly 200,000 people in the southern Mexican state of Tabasco have been affected by this week's flooding, as more rain fell on the region today. (AP Photo/America Rocio)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_water_shortages ap/20091107/lt_venezuela_water_shortages AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:06:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_water_shortages"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.cb0c303972c949a19ded6f0137bd0a74.aptopix_venezuela_water_shortages_xac109.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=cxvMWH43tKOd5dT_x1jENQ--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="Children play around a water distribution truck in Filas de Mariches neighborhood in Caracas, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. While Venezuela's capital began water rationing this week amid a drought blamed on El Nino, large sections of the city's hillside slums have long been coping with a lack of access to drinking water. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)" border="0" /></a>AP - While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_water_shortages"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.cb0c303972c949a19ded6f0137bd0a74.aptopix_venezuela_water_shortages_xac109.jpg?x=130&y=82&q=85&sig=cxvMWH43tKOd5dT_x1jENQ--" align="left" height="82" width="130" alt="photo" title="Children play around a water distribution truck in Filas de Mariches neighborhood in Caracas, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. While Venezuela's capital began water rationing this week amid a drought blamed on El Nino, large sections of the city's hillside slums have long been coping with a lack of access to drinking water. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_guatemala_dane_killed ap/20091107/lt_guatemala_dane_killed AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:15:40 GMT AP - A Danish tourist died Friday, two days after being shot by robbers who tried to steal his camera while he visited a cemetery. Police said two suspected gang members had been arrested. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup ap/20091107/lt_honduras_coup AP world Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:29:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.816df9e757014d519425726638fb56f2.honduras_coup_efx107.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=mSzVyxNb6Kkcn6uYm2ZLyA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya opens a door before a meeting with his representatives in Brazil's embassy where he has been holed up over a month in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed. The pact gave the two sides until midnight Thursday to install a government with supporters of Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, who was named interim president by Congress after Zelaya was ousted by a coup on June 28. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)" border="0" /></a>AP - They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is defunct. Roberto Micheletti, who took power after a coup, says the same deal has been successfully accomplished.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.816df9e757014d519425726638fb56f2.honduras_coup_efx107.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=mSzVyxNb6Kkcn6uYm2ZLyA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya opens a door before a meeting with his representatives in Brazil's embassy where he has been holed up over a month in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed. The pact gave the two sides until midnight Thursday to install a government with supporters of Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, who was named interim president by Congress after Zelaya was ousted by a coup on June 28. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_prime_minister ap/20091106/cb_haiti_prime_minister AP world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:44:34 GMT AP - Haitian senators have taken a key first step toward replacing the prime minister they ousted a week ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wl_nm/us_honduras nm/20091106/us_honduras Reuters world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:34:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wl_nm/us_honduras"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091106/i/r1756221989.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=4nEZJir4AP8J0NfvdBq0bw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya speaks on his mobile phone before of a meeting inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido" border="0" /></a>Reuters - An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed on Friday after two rival leaders failed to form a government of unity to heal the damage from a June coup.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wl_nm/us_honduras"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091106/i/r1756221989.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=4nEZJir4AP8J0NfvdBq0bw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya speaks on his mobile phone before of a meeting inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_media_pressure ap/20091106/lt_argentina_media_pressure AP world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:12:52 GMT AP - Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_panama_obit_solis ap/20091106/lt_panama_obit_solis AP world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:26:45 GMT AP - Manuel Solis, who served briefly as president during Manuel Noriega's military regime, died Friday. He was 91. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_honduras_coup ap/20091106/us_us_honduras_coup AP politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:53:25 GMT AP - The State Department is expressing disappointment that Honduras has failed to form a unity government. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico ap/20091106/lt_drug_war_mexico AP world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:44:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.31a3d846dc3a4c61b1a85fb0d46a33bc.mexico_drug_war_mxga105.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=lm.28zeTs5Jo.F4tXS4qTQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="A federal police officer stands behind broken glass in a hotel's entrance after a shooting between federal police and alleged drug traffickers in Tijuana, Mexico, late Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. According to federal police, a federal police agent was shot and injured during the shootout. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)" border="0" /></a>AP - Authorities say gunmen have killed a police commander in Mexico's deadliest city, where a dismembered, decapitated body was found hours before.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.31a3d846dc3a4c61b1a85fb0d46a33bc.mexico_drug_war_mxga105.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=lm.28zeTs5Jo.F4tXS4qTQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="A federal police officer stands behind broken glass in a hotel's entrance after a shooting between federal police and alleged drug traffickers in Tijuana, Mexico, late Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. According to federal police, a federal police agent was shot and injured during the shootout. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/paraguaypoliticsmilitary afp/20091106/paraguaypoliticsmilitary AFP world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:30:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/paraguaypoliticsmilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257515611589-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=o.fIf5VAPrbFkr3Mb7iimA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo (L) speaks with the commander of Paraguay's armed forces, Rear Admiral Ciber Benitez, during a military ceremony in Asuncion on November 4. Lugo sacked the head of Paraguay's armed forces on Friday, two days after firing a trio of top military commanders amid rumors of a potential coup, government sources said.(AFP/File/Norberto Duarte)" border="0" /></a>AFP - President Fernando Lugo sacked the head of Paraguay's armed forces on Friday, two days after firing a trio of top military commanders amid rumors of a potential coup, government sources said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091106/wl_afp/paraguaypoliticsmilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091106/capt.photo_1257515611589-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=o.fIf5VAPrbFkr3Mb7iimA--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo (L) speaks with the commander of Paraguay's armed forces, Rear Admiral Ciber Benitez, during a military ceremony in Asuncion on November 4. Lugo sacked the head of Paraguay's armed forces on Friday, two days after firing a trio of top military commanders amid rumors of a potential coup, government sources said.(AFP/File/Norberto Duarte)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20091106/pl_usnw/illegally_dumping100_million_pounds_of_toxic_coal_ash_waste_onto_a_pristine_dominican_republic_beach__u_s__power_corporation_cr usnw/20091106/illegally_dumping100_million_pounds_of_toxic_coal_ash_waste_onto_a_pristine_dominican_republic_beach__u_s__power_corporation_created_a_genetic_time_bomb__mass_tort_complaint_alleges_in_first_of_its_kind_lawsuit PR Newswire politics Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:30:00 GMT PR Newswire - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wl_nm/us_honduras_cabinet nm/20091106/us_honduras_cabinet Reuters world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:26:23 GMT Reuters - Honduran de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said on Thursday night he would install a national unity government without the participation of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wl_nm/us_hurricane_nicaragua nm/20091106/us_hurricane_nicaragua Reuters world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:21:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wl_nm/us_hurricane_nicaragua"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091105/i/r245487591.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=Ow37DnowDRNMnpo9Fseh7w--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="Tropical storm Ida is seen November 5, 2009, in this handout photo. REUTERS/NOAA/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical depression as it churned through eastern Nicaragua on Thursday after cutting power and ripping roofs on little-developed Caribbean islands.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091106/wl_nm/us_hurricane_nicaragua"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091105/i/r245487591.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=Ow37DnowDRNMnpo9Fseh7w--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="photo" title="Tropical storm Ida is seen November 5, 2009, in this handout photo. REUTERS/NOAA/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)