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All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2200 world World - Latin America en-us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:59:33 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2200 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_mystery_patient ap/20100210/cb_haiti_mystery_patient AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:59:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_mystery_patient"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.c3ad129a311449288d5d9f5e9004e2fa.haiti_earthquake_mystery_patient_pap144.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=f4A47g4pQ6w01D3_VbrbEg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo provided by michaelthemaven.com, a man who identified himself as Evans Monsigrace, 28, is attended at the Salvation Army medical center after being brought in by two men in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating Monsigrace, who, according to two Haitian men who brought him, had been trapped in rubble since the Jan. 12 earthquake, and he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal. The men's account could not be confirmed by doctors at a university field hospital or at a Salvation Army medical center where Monsigrace, emaciated and suffering from dehydration, was first brought. (AP Photo/Michael Andrew, michaelthemaven.com)" border="0" /></a>AP - A rice vendor may have lived under the rubble of a flea market for 27 days with little more than water and possibly fruit, a doctor said Tuesday, in what would be a dramatic tale of survival four weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_mystery_patient"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.c3ad129a311449288d5d9f5e9004e2fa.haiti_earthquake_mystery_patient_pap144.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=f4A47g4pQ6w01D3_VbrbEg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo provided by michaelthemaven.com, a man who identified himself as Evans Monsigrace, 28, is attended at the Salvation Army medical center after being brought in by two men in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating Monsigrace, who, according to two Haitian men who brought him, had been trapped in rubble since the Jan. 12 earthquake, and he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal. The men's account could not be confirmed by doctors at a university field hospital or at a Salvation Army medical center where Monsigrace, emaciated and suffering from dehydration, was first brought. (AP Photo/Michael Andrew, michaelthemaven.com)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_oldest_woman ap/20100210/cb_cuba_oldest_woman AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_oldest_woman"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.5d69e03e0c3c49659f1100a3b5d9aeb5.cuba_oldest_person_xpl103.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=cnf9SQxknQYB2Sev6ZSpRg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="In this Feb. 4, 2010 photo, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez sits in her home near the village of Campechuela, where she was born in the Granma region of eastern Cuba. Bautista, who is also known as Candulia, was born in 1885 according to the civil registry and celebrated her 125th birthday on Feb. 2, making her possibly the oldest person in the world. A spokesperson for Guinness World Records told the AP they were not aware of Bautista. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)" border="0" /></a>AP - Relatives in eastern Cuba claim to have held a 125th birthday party for a woman named Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez, but it is not clear if she is really that old.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_oldest_woman"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.5d69e03e0c3c49659f1100a3b5d9aeb5.cuba_oldest_person_xpl103.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=cnf9SQxknQYB2Sev6ZSpRg--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="In this Feb. 4, 2010 photo, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez sits in her home near the village of Campechuela, where she was born in the Granma region of eastern Cuba. Bautista, who is also known as Candulia, was born in 1885 according to the civil registry and celebrated her 125th birthday on Feb. 2, making her possibly the oldest person in the world. A spokesperson for Guinness World Records told the AP they were not aware of Bautista. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained ap/20100210/cb_haiti_americans_detained AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:36 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.664fb82ec10741fca7020d83b49eaad7.haiti_americans_detained_pap101.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=6qhbRtw1L.a9Tfw.mrzehQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="Three of ten Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, Drew Culberth, 34, of Topeka, Kansas, far right, Jimmy Allen, 47, of Amarillo, Texas, behind left of Culberth, and Paul Thompson, 43, of Twin Falls, Idaho, third from left, are escorted by Haitian police as they arrive to court in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Nine of the ten Americans were brought to court for a fourth time for questioning. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)" border="0" /></a>AP - Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake told a judge Tuesday that they freely handed over their kids, the Americans' lawyer said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_americans_detained"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.664fb82ec10741fca7020d83b49eaad7.haiti_americans_detained_pap101.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=6qhbRtw1L.a9Tfw.mrzehQ--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="Three of ten Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, Drew Culberth, 34, of Topeka, Kansas, far right, Jimmy Allen, 47, of Amarillo, Texas, behind left of Culberth, and Paul Thompson, 43, of Twin Falls, Idaho, third from left, are escorted by Haitian police as they arrive to court in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Nine of the ten Americans were brought to court for a fourth time for questioning. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/wl_nm/us_quake_haiti_security nm/20100210/us_quake_haiti_security Reuters world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:23:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/wl_nm/us_quake_haiti_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100210/i/r2143363170.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=qsFE6q1WNNLXQMhhvN7D_w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="U.S. soldiers provide security at the Petionville Club makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince February 9, 2010. The 7.0 magnitude quake which struck Haiti on Jan. 12 is estimated to have killed up to 200,000 people. REUTERS/Kena Betancur" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The top U.N. official in Haiti urged Haitians on Tuesday to turn in thousands of escaped criminals before they start trouble, but said the security situation in the quake-struck Caribbean nation is stable.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100210/wl_nm/us_quake_haiti_security"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100210/i/r2143363170.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=qsFE6q1WNNLXQMhhvN7D_w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. soldiers provide security at the Petionville Club makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince February 9, 2010. The 7.0 magnitude quake which struck Haiti on Jan. 12 is estimated to have killed up to 200,000 people. REUTERS/Kena Betancur" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/un_un_haiti_children ap/20100210/un_un_haiti_children AP us Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:19:10 GMT AP - The head of UNICEF warned Tuesday that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti and said protecting youngsters who survived the earthquake is the top concern of the U.N. children's agency. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_pinera_cabinet ap/20100210/lt_chile_pinera_cabinet AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:03:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_pinera_cabinet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.a2bc5eab80bf489b8372ce51e88a7685.chile_pinera_cabinet_xrc101.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=eVmMownPWiIoM6NzNFALSQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="Chile's President-elect Sebastian Pinera, left, designates Jaime Ravinet as his defense minister in Santiago, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Pinera will be Chile's president from March 11, 2010 to 2014. (AP Photo/Jorge Sanchez)" border="0" /></a>AP - President-elect Sebastian Pinera named a Cabinet of technocrats Tuesday to run his government, calling more on political independents than members of the Chilean conservative parties that made him their standard-bearer.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_chile_pinera_cabinet"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100210/capt.a2bc5eab80bf489b8372ce51e88a7685.chile_pinera_cabinet_xrc101.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=eVmMownPWiIoM6NzNFALSQ--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="Chile's President-elect Sebastian Pinera, left, designates Jaime Ravinet as his defense minister in Santiago, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Pinera will be Chile's president from March 11, 2010 to 2014. (AP Photo/Jorge Sanchez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_afp/haitiquake afp/20100210/haitiquake AFP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:59:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_afp/haitiquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265759360468-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bHW99XNyRz6HbdtAW83ckw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Haitian workers help to demolish the remains of a school that collapsed during a major earthquake that struck Haiti killing over 200,000 and leaving over a million people homeless. The WHO stopped Tuesday providing free drugs to private clinics and NGOs in Haiti after reports patients were being charged, potentially dealing a big blow to the already stumbling aid effort.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A quake-damaged Haitian supermarket collapsed in the capital with several people inside and rescue crews were working to pull them out, a site supervisor and rescue workers said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100210/wl_afp/haitiquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100210/capt.photo_1265759360468-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=bHW99XNyRz6HbdtAW83ckw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Haitian workers help to demolish the remains of a school that collapsed during a major earthquake that struck Haiti killing over 200,000 and leaving over a million people homeless. The WHO stopped Tuesday providing free drugs to private clinics and NGOs in Haiti after reports patients were being charged, potentially dealing a big blow to the already stumbling aid effort.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico ap/20100210/lt_drug_war_mexico AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:32:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.3c46baf89b2d4b7da665702616c15a41.mexico_drug_war_mxam106.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=LXZQbsFfz2y8o09hX.kzQg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A suspect man wearing a police officer uniform who alleged was working for a drug cartel in Tijuana, center, is guarded by federal police as he is presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The man was arrested yesterday in Baja California, along with other alleged key members of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)" border="0" /></a>AP - A crackdown on a vicious Mexican drug gang has led to the arrest of five Tijuana police officers, including two who had been at the forefront of the border city's efforts to rid the force of corruption.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.3c46baf89b2d4b7da665702616c15a41.mexico_drug_war_mxam106.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=LXZQbsFfz2y8o09hX.kzQg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A suspect man wearing a police officer uniform who alleged was working for a drug cartel in Tijuana, center, is guarded by federal police as he is presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The man was arrested yesterday in Baja California, along with other alleged key members of a drug cartel operating in the border town of Tijuana. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake_glance ap/20100210/cb_haiti_earthquake_glance AP world Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:21:49 GMT AP - A look at the latest developments in Haiti on Tuesday, 28 days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_military_death ap/20100209/us_haiti_military_death AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:27:22 GMT AP - The body of a U.S. Air Force officer visiting Haiti at the time of last month's earthquake has been found in the rubble of a hotel in the country's devastated capital, military officials said Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_loyal_lawmakers ap/20100209/lt_venezuela_loyal_lawmakers AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17:16 GMT AP - Legislators allied with President Hugo Chavez said Tuesday they plan to adopt rules that will punish any lawmaker who abandons the socialist leader. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake ap/20100209/cb_haiti_earthquake AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:05:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9512770501c048909dbeef991f7f429c.haiti_earthquake_pap121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CS0rEAPqeoApxsiT8cBk8Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Fristmer Alexi, 40, carries his daughter Rosemita, 10, to the General Hospital after she fell ill over night in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0" /></a>AP - Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital's General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100209/capt.9512770501c048909dbeef991f7f429c.haiti_earthquake_pap121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CS0rEAPqeoApxsiT8cBk8Q--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Fristmer Alexi, 40, carries his daughter Rosemita, 10, to the General Hospital after she fell ill over night in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake_death_toll ap/20100209/cb_haiti_earthquake_death_toll AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:35:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake_death_toll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100125/capt.379ad62dd180427b8bfef06234cc18d3.haiti_earthquake_xgb126.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ARgPFWrB4YC3FKSbwLmmZA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Members of the Sydney family stand by a coffin containing the bodies of three members of their family in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. Lacking funds for coffins, the survivors of the Sidney family were forced to fill one coffin with the bodies of an aunt and two brothers who were pulled from the rubble of their home Sunday. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0" /></a>AP - Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_earthquake_death_toll"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100125/capt.379ad62dd180427b8bfef06234cc18d3.haiti_earthquake_xgb126.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=ARgPFWrB4YC3FKSbwLmmZA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Members of the Sydney family stand by a coffin containing the bodies of three members of their family in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. Lacking funds for coffins, the survivors of the Sidney family were forced to fill one coffin with the bodies of an aunt and two brothers who were pulled from the rubble of their home Sunday. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/haitiquakesurvivor afp/20100209/haitiquakesurvivor AFP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:14:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/haitiquakesurvivor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265740521950-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=yMCc.xyAvfAF8_ZNoRmmSA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A Haitian man walks on the rubble of a partially destroyed store in downtown Port-au-Prince on February 3. Doctors treating an emaciated 28-year-old Haitian man on Tuesday said they believed he survived 27 days buried in rubble after the January 12 earthquake.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Doctors treating an emaciated 28-year-old Haitian man on Tuesday said they believed he survived 27 days buried in rubble after the January 12 earthquake.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_afp/haitiquakesurvivor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265740521950-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=yMCc.xyAvfAF8_ZNoRmmSA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Haitian man walks on the rubble of a partially destroyed store in downtown Port-au-Prince on February 3. Doctors treating an emaciated 28-year-old Haitian man on Tuesday said they believed he survived 27 days buried in rubble after the January 12 earthquake.(AFP/File/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_kirchner ap/20100209/lt_argentina_kirchner AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:51:41 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_kirchner"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.94225f5f9b054342b9b24c4a4b95a7b7.argentina_kirchner_xlat106.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=c6H0kgsv1UhMfLGVIFA2Fg--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="In this photo taken June 29, 2009, former Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner gestures during a press conference in Buenos Aires. Kirchner underwent emergency surgery after showing symptoms of carotid artery disease, the presidency said. (AP Photo/Daniel Luna)" border="0" /></a>AP - Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner was out of intensive care Tuesday after emergency surgery on an important artery feeding blood to his brain.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_kirchner"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.94225f5f9b054342b9b24c4a4b95a7b7.argentina_kirchner_xlat106.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=c6H0kgsv1UhMfLGVIFA2Fg--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken June 29, 2009, former Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner gestures during a press conference in Buenos Aires. Kirchner underwent emergency surgery after showing symptoms of carotid artery disease, the presidency said. (AP Photo/Daniel Luna)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_haiti_americans_detained ap/20100209/us_us_haiti_americans_detained AP politics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:41:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_haiti_americans_detained"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265288678239-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=qooAFMaks8DmPGwubvZsjQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Laura Silsby, the detained head of New Life Children's Refuge, is the leader of a group of 10 Americans accused of trying to smuggle children out of quake-stricken Haiti. The group is waiting to hear if they will be charged with child trafficking for trying to take children out of the quake-hit nation, where the death toll has risen above 200,000.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)" border="0" /></a>AP - The U.S.-based lawyer for one of 10 American Baptists charged with child kidnapping in Haiti appealed Tuesday for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to personally intervene in the case.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_haiti_americans_detained"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100204/capt.photo_1265288678239-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=qooAFMaks8DmPGwubvZsjQ--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Laura Silsby, the detained head of New Life Children's Refuge, is the leader of a group of 10 Americans accused of trying to smuggle children out of quake-stricken Haiti. The group is waiting to hear if they will be charged with child trafficking for trying to take children out of the quake-hit nation, where the death toll has risen above 200,000.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/us_nm/us_mexico_drugs_rehab nm/20100209/us_mexico_drugs_rehab Reuters us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:27:30 GMT Reuters - A Mexican entrepreneur is luring U.S. drug addicts to plush rehabilitation centers south of the border, even as shoddier Mexican clinics earn a reputation for attracting cartel shootouts. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/entertainmenthaitiquakedominicanjolieunhcr afp/20100209/entertainmenthaitiquakedominicanjolieunhcr AFP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:42 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/entertainmenthaitiquakedominicanjolieunhcr"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265745644822-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=XyZeStp2eiUlqfejqxsRrg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Angelina Jolie greets members of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in Port-au-Prince during her visit to Haiti as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR.(AFP/Ariel Marinkovic)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Movie star Angelina Jolie is due to arrive in quake-struck Haiti on Tuesday, the UN refugee agency said, a day after she visited Haitian children being treated in the neighbouring Dominican Republic.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/ts_alt_afp/entertainmenthaitiquakedominicanjolieunhcr"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100209/capt.photo_1265745644822-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=XyZeStp2eiUlqfejqxsRrg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Angelina Jolie greets members of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in Port-au-Prince during her visit to Haiti as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR.(AFP/Ariel Marinkovic)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100209/pl_nm/us_usa_cuba_travel nm/20100209/us_usa_cuba_travel Reuters politics Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:05:36 GMT Reuters - A bipartisan drive in Congress to end a Cold War-era travel ban on Cuba was buried during the healthcare reform debate but its supporters hope to dig it out this year. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_un_hospitals ap/20100209/cb_haiti_un_hospitals AP world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:13:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_un_hospitals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r941859175.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=QeAo9cGW7kyVQi1IJdT1Jg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Survivors of Haiti's earthquake gather at the Haitian border February 8, 2010. More than 200,000 people were killed in the 7.0 magnitude quake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12. It has led to scenes of chaotic food handouts amid the ruins of the capital Port-au-Prince. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER SOCIETY)" border="0" /></a>AP - The United Nations warned Monday that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that charge patients, saying it had learned some are levying fees for drugs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_un_hospitals"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100209/i/r941859175.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=QeAo9cGW7kyVQi1IJdT1Jg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="Survivors of Haiti's earthquake gather at the Haitian border February 8, 2010. More than 200,000 people were killed in the 7.0 magnitude quake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12. It has led to scenes of chaotic food handouts amid the ruins of the capital Port-au-Prince. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER SOCIETY)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP)