
Did dictators fix WCup title for Italy, Argentina?
Football's biggest prize may have twice been won with the help of dictators fixing matches for the host team. Argentina's triumph in 1978 and Italy's ...

Rough inauguration day for new Venezuelan leader
Inauguration day could have gone better for the man picked to lead Venezuela's socialist revolution for the next six years. Hours before President ...

Election council to audit vote in Venezuela
Government supporters began filling the streets of Venezuela's capital early Friday to celebrate the inauguration of their leader, even as opponents ...

Venezuela crackdown deemed worst in years
National Guard troops beat dozens of opposition supporters inside a barracks for refusing to accept the government-certified electoral victory of Hugo ...

Barrick suffering big setbacks in Latin America
A Chilean court's halt to construction of Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8 billion, border-straddling mine on the high spine of the Andes is only the latest ...

Peru criticized for 'avoidable' military draft
Facing a shortage of recruits, Peru's government has reinstated selective, obligatory military service. But it can be avoided by paying a $700 fine, ...

AP PHOTOS: Working-class beach for Peru's capital
While Lima's elite passes its summer weekends in gated beach enclaves south of the Peruvian capital, the working class jams by the thousands on a ...

Photos: Working-class beach for Peru's capital
While Lima's elite passes its summer weekends in gated beach enclaves south of the Peruvian capital, the working class jams by the thousands on a ...
FIFA bans Peru's Sanchez for 2 years for doping
FIFA suspended Joel Sanchez for two years on Friday after the Peru midfielder tested positive for a banned substance at a 2014 World Cup qualifier.

Lima's reformist mayor battles to stay in office
After becoming the first woman ever elected to run Peru's capital, Susana Villaran did what no modern predecessor had dared: She tried to bring order ...

Swedish photographer wins World Press Photo award
Swedish photographer Paul Hansen won the 2012 World Press Photo award Friday for newspaper Dagens Nyheter with a picture of two Palestinian children ...
FIFA suspends Peru international after failed test
FIFA has provisionally suspended a Peru international for 30 days for failing a doping test after a World Cup qualifier. The player, whose name was ...

Partial victory for Bolivia in coca fight
Evo Morales' global crusade to decriminalize the coca leaf, launched in 2006 after the coca growers' union leader was first elected president of ...
3x-motorbike champ Coma withdraws from Dakar Rally
Three-time motorbike champion Marc Coma of Spain says he will not ride in the Dakar Rally next month due to health reasons. According to Spanish media ...

Chile tells UN court its border with Peru is fixed
Lawyers for Chile's government argued Thursday that judges at the United Nations' highest court should reject a request by Peru to draw a maritime ...

Peru asks UN court to set sea border with Chile
Peru asked the U.N.'s highest court Monday to set a maritime border between it and Chile, in a case that could greatly expand the amount of rich seas ...

Spain shipwreck treasure shown for the first time
Spanish cultural officials allowed a first peek Friday at some of the 16 tons (14.5 metric tons) of shipwreck treasure worth an estimated $500 million ...