Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2200 world World - Latin America en-us Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:35 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/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico ap/20091121/lt_drug_war_mexico AP world Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:06:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091119/i/r2797841268.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.gqkv4XAhUGTdsxzwe1uHw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Forensic personnel and policemen use a sheet to block the view of the body of one of two members of the investigative police killed in the border city of Ciudad Juarez November 19, 2009. Two policemen were killed at a service station by drug hitmen in an attack that left another two policemen and a civilian injured, according to local media. In a separate incident, two members of the investigative police were gunned down in a shoot by-driving. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas (MEXICO SOCIETY CONFLICT CRIME LAW)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091119/i/r2797841268.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=.gqkv4XAhUGTdsxzwe1uHw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Forensic personnel and policemen use a sheet to block the view of the body of one of two members of the investigative police killed in the border city of Ciudad Juarez November 19, 2009. Two policemen were killed at a service station by drug hitmen in an attack that left another two policemen and a civilian injured, according to local media. In a separate incident, two members of the investigative police were gunned down in a shoot by-driving. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas (MEXICO SOCIETY CONFLICT CRIME LAW)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/ts_nm/us_usa_crime_cuba nm/20091120/us_usa_crime_cuba Reuters topstories Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:46:35 GMT Reuters - A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_go_ot/us_cuba_spy_charges ap/20091120/us_cuba_spy_charges AP politics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:30:22 GMT AP - A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_forced_dna ap/20091120/lt_argentina_forced_dna AP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:29:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_forced_dna"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.8f6e194f51544f8f9ab23270c05ed140.argentina_forced_dna_xnp103.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=3KVb7HJcT2IYAFHzWsSHBg--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="In this photo taken Nov. 9, 2009, Horacio Pietragalla shows a photo of himself with his mother Liliana Corti in Buenos Aires. Pietragalla was kidnapped from his mother when he was a few months old and given to another family who discovered his true identity in May 2003 at age 27. Valuing the right to truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from suspected dirty war orphans who refuse to help identify their birth parents. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)" border="0" /></a>AP - Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago &mdash; even when they don't want to know their birth parents.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_forced_dna"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.8f6e194f51544f8f9ab23270c05ed140.argentina_forced_dna_xnp103.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=3KVb7HJcT2IYAFHzWsSHBg--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Nov. 9, 2009, Horacio Pietragalla shows a photo of himself with his mother Liliana Corti in Buenos Aires. Pietragalla was kidnapped from his mother when he was a few months old and given to another family who discovered his true identity in May 2003 at age 27. Valuing the right to truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from suspected dirty war orphans who refuse to help identify their birth parents. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_missing_journalist ap/20091120/lt_mexico_missing_journalist AP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:22:52 GMT AP - Authorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_colombia_venezuela nm/20091120/us_colombia_venezuela Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:08:28 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_colombia_venezuela"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/r114832380.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=I5Cl05YggtZXo7cVcqnUGg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Colombians walk next to a destroyed bridge that crosses into Colombia's Norte de Santander department (near end), in Ragonvalia November 19, 2009. Venezuelan soldiers on Thursday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that stretched across the border to Colombia in the latest incident to stoke a diplomatic dispute between the Andean neighbors. REUTERS/Manuel Hernandez" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite its neighbor's aggressive rhetoric and dynamiting of two border bridges, Colombia's defense minister said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_colombia_venezuela"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091120/i/r114832380.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=I5Cl05YggtZXo7cVcqnUGg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Colombians walk next to a destroyed bridge that crosses into Colombia's Norte de Santander department (near end), in Ragonvalia November 19, 2009. Venezuelan soldiers on Thursday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that stretched across the border to Colombia in the latest incident to stoke a diplomatic dispute between the Andean neighbors. REUTERS/Manuel Hernandez" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/pl_nm/us_honduras_usa nm/20091120/us_honduras_usa Reuters politics Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:40:18 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/pl_nm/us_honduras_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.34955f0ea4894a4781560e413dc25774.honduras_coup_xaf103.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=fI99JHdriMMPz2lrwOkVjQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="A family sits on the sidelines of a protest by supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya demanding Zelaya's return to power outside the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Honduras' general elections are schedule for Nov. 29 and Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to reinstate ousted Zelaya on Dec. 2. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Honduras' de facto leader should make good on an offer to step aside for a week so voters can focus on November 29 polls and resolve the country's political crisis, the U.S. State Department said Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/pl_nm/us_honduras_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.34955f0ea4894a4781560e413dc25774.honduras_coup_xaf103.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=fI99JHdriMMPz2lrwOkVjQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="A family sits on the sidelines of a protest by supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya demanding Zelaya's return to power outside the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Honduras' general elections are schedule for Nov. 29 and Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to reinstate ousted Zelaya on Dec. 2. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_guatemala_adoptions ap/20091120/lt_guatemala_adoptions AP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:58:38 GMT AP - Guatemalan officials on Friday announced the resumption of international adoptions after a nearly two-year suspension prompted by the discovery that some babies were being sold. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_peru_murder_ring ap/20091120/lt_peru_murder_ring AP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:10:23 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_peru_murder_ring"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.af15df91476243d1a21b1fbadcb1e60a.peru_murder_ring_lim101.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=x0A4EPxEDDbKu_pRbo8pKg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="A police officer displays two bottles containing human fat while another sets seized sticks of dynamite during a press conference in Lima, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Peruvian police said they have broken up a band of assassins who killed people in order to extract and sell their body fat, which was sold to intermediaries, who police suspect sold it to cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies in Europe.(AP Photo/Karel Navarro)" border="0" /></a>AP - Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although medical experts say they doubt a major market for fat exists.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_peru_murder_ring"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.af15df91476243d1a21b1fbadcb1e60a.peru_murder_ring_lim101.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=x0A4EPxEDDbKu_pRbo8pKg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="A police officer displays two bottles containing human fat while another sets seized sticks of dynamite during a press conference in Lima, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Peruvian police said they have broken up a band of assassins who killed people in order to extract and sell their body fat, which was sold to intermediaries, who police suspect sold it to cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies in Europe.(AP Photo/Karel Navarro)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup ap/20091120/lt_honduras_coup AP world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:40:53 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091118/capt.9c9e4334113f4a10a08040ba13b45426.honduras_coup_xaf104.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=lwhsuckJurx1RUjQO01FGg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs Craig Kelly, at podium, speaks next to US ambassador in Honduras Hugo Llorens, right, during a news conference in Tegucigalpa, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Kelly met with ousted President Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0" /></a>AP - Honduras' interim president said Thursday he may step down temporarily to allow voters to concentrate on the upcoming presidential elections.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091120/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_honduras_coup"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091118/capt.9c9e4334113f4a10a08040ba13b45426.honduras_coup_xaf104.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=lwhsuckJurx1RUjQO01FGg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs Craig Kelly, at podium, speaks next to US ambassador in Honduras Hugo Llorens, right, during a news conference in Tegucigalpa, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Kelly met with ousted President Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_honduras nm/20091120/us_honduras Reuters world Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:57:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_honduras"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.34955f0ea4894a4781560e413dc25774.honduras_coup_xaf103.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=fI99JHdriMMPz2lrwOkVjQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="A family sits on the sidelines of a protest by supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya demanding Zelaya's return to power outside the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Honduras' general elections are schedule for Nov. 29 and Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to reinstate ousted Zelaya on Dec. 2. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Honduras's de facto leader said he may give up his presidential duties for a week so voters can focus on an election that Washington hopes will help end a five-month-old political crisis.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/wl_nm/us_honduras"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091120/capt.34955f0ea4894a4781560e413dc25774.honduras_coup_xaf103.jpg?x=89&y=130&q=85&sig=fI99JHdriMMPz2lrwOkVjQ--" align="left" height="130" width="89" alt="photo" title="A family sits on the sidelines of a protest by supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya demanding Zelaya's return to power outside the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Honduras' general elections are schedule for Nov. 29 and Congress is scheduled to vote on whether to reinstate ousted Zelaya on Dec. 2. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/wl_nm/us_peru_crime nm/20091119/us_peru_crime Reuters world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:13:17 GMT Reuters - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_oldest_woman ap/20091119/lt_mexico_oldest_woman AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:30:02 GMT AP - A Mexican once put forward for the title of world's oldest woman has died at 119, government officials said Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_public_transit ap/20091119/lt_mexico_public_transit AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:49:27 GMT AP - Cash-strapped Mexico City is pressing ahead with new bus lines and bike lanes in 2010, buoyed by prestigious recognition for a world-class transit system that has reduced pollution in one of the globe's largest cities. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/us_nm/us_mexico_usa_park nm/20091119/us_mexico_usa_park Reuters us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:17:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/us_nm/us_mexico_usa_park"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091119/i/r1402657487.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=0SopFnv9Wjwl_KepAearmw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="A man and a child walk past a fence marking the border between Mexico and the U.S. in Tijuana November 15, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The United States has severely restricted access to a spot on the Mexican border where families and lovers divided by illegal immigration could unite briefly to hold hands or kiss through a fence.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/us_nm/us_mexico_usa_park"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091119/i/r1402657487.jpg?x=130&y=81&q=85&sig=0SopFnv9Wjwl_KepAearmw--" align="left" height="81" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man and a child walk past a fence marking the border between Mexico and the U.S. in Tijuana November 15, 2009. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091119/pl_nm/us_cuba_blogger_obama nm/20091119/us_cuba_blogger_obama Reuters politics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:28:37 GMT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama praised dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and said in a posting on her website on Thursday that he looks forward to the day "all Cubans can freely express themselves." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_dissident_blogger ap/20091119/cb_cuba_dissident_blogger AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:05:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_dissident_blogger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.e6b1358921714c1ab566e9a36c7bfaeb.cuba_concert_hav104.jpg?x=106&y=130&q=85&sig=HfKhwvfoT_i9IUv2.bdRRQ--" align="left" height="130" width="106" alt="A student stands next to a painting of a Cuban flag in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. French and Cuban singers will perform a concert as part of the UNICEF fund raising program 'Schools Against Hurricanes', aimed to rebuild schools in an area of western Cuban that was devastated in 2008 by Hurricanes.(AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_dissident_blogger"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091119/capt.e6b1358921714c1ab566e9a36c7bfaeb.cuba_concert_hav104.jpg?x=106&y=130&q=85&sig=HfKhwvfoT_i9IUv2.bdRRQ--" align="left" height="130" width="106" alt="photo" title="A student stands next to a painting of a Cuban flag in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. French and Cuban singers will perform a concert as part of the UNICEF fund raising program 'Schools Against Hurricanes', aimed to rebuild schools in an area of western Cuban that was devastated in 2008 by Hurricanes.(AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guyana_jonestown ap/20091119/cb_guyana_jonestown AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:23:59 GMT AP - It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/ts_afp/fblwc2010latamconcacafurucrcplayoff afp/20091119/fblwc2010latamconcacafurucrcplayoff AFP topstories Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:10:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/ts_afp/fblwc2010latamconcacafurucrcplayoff"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258607385152-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vFlASffhtGJ7sVk1aSWN8w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Uruguay's players leave the field at the end of their FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifier match against Costa Rica at Centenario stadium in Montevideo, on November 18. The game ended in a 1-1 draw and Uruguay qualified.(AFP/Pablo Porciuncula)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Uruguay finished the job, qualifying for the 2010 World Cup with a 1-1 draw against Costa Rica.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091119/ts_afp/fblwc2010latamconcacafurucrcplayoff"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091119/capt.photo_1258607385152-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=vFlASffhtGJ7sVk1aSWN8w--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Uruguay's players leave the field at the end of their FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifier match against Costa Rica at Centenario stadium in Montevideo, on November 18. The game ended in a 1-1 draw and Uruguay qualified.(AFP/Pablo Porciuncula)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/latam/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_abortion ap/20091119/lt_mexico_abortion AP world Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:03:29 GMT AP - Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion.