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Argentina to court: revert order on debt holdouts
Argentina is asking a US appeals court to reverse an order for the country to pay $1.33 billion to "holdout" creditors who refused to join two swaps ...
Venezuela VP in Cuba to visit ailing Chavez
Venezuela's vice president arrived in Havana on Saturday in a sudden and unexpected trip to visit President Hugo Chavez as he recovers from cancer ...
After prison release, Urbina returns to baseball
Former major league pitcher Ugueth Urbina returned to baseball Friday after serving 7½ years in prison for the attempted murder of five workers on his ...
Venezuelans obsess: Will Chavez live or die?
He's getting better. He's getting worse. He's already dead. The whole thing is a conspiracy and he was never sick in the first place. The obsessive, ...
Chile charges 8 people in singer's killing
Eight former army lieutenants have been charged in the killing of communist singer and songwriter Victor Jara almost four decades ago. Appellate Court ...
Thatcher papers: 'worst moment' of her life
She called it, simply, the worst moment of her life. It came in March 1982 during the days before the Falklands War, after Argentina established an ...
Argentina's fight on defaulted debt takes new step
It's been a decade since Argentina tarnished its reputation worldwide and became an economic misfit by engaging in the biggest sovereign debt default ...
Argentine court rejects intervention in media case
Argentina's Supreme Court rejected a proposal by the government to use a new legal regulation to get the top court to intervene in the case of a law ...
Former Argentine economy minister sentenced
A former Argentine economy minister has been sentenced to four years in prison for corruption. Felisa Miceli was forced to quit in 2007 when a bag of ...
Argentina dismisses case against former president
Argentina's highest penal court confirmed a stay on proceedings against an ex-president over charges that he failed to prevent the killing of ...
Cuba has much to lose as ally Chavez fights cancer
Cubans who were tuned in to the nightly soap opera on a recent Saturday received a sudden burst of bad news, from the other side of the Caribbean.
VP says Chavez up, walking; doubts persist
Vice President Nicolas Maduro surprised Venezuelans with a Christmas Eve announcement that President Hugo Chavez is up and walking two weeks after ...
Chilean street dogs are protesters' best friends
They don't have demands, but they're loyal to the cause and are always on the front lines of the fight. They run with protesters, lap up shots from ...
Correction: Peru Quake Unreadiness Story
In a story that moved Dec. 9 and 23 about earthquake readiness in Lima, Peru, The Associated Press incorrectly listed the year and the magnitude of ...
Argentina import controls put brake on bike sales
Summer has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and bicyclists all over the Argentine capital have hit the streets to enjoy the warm weather.
Peru's capital highly vulnerable to major quake
The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn't get back up. Minutes later, a 50-foot ...
3-day trip becomes 3-week ordeal for 2 Jamaicans
It was supposed to be a three-day fishing trip at most. It turned into a three-week ordeal, drifting under an intense sun for hundreds of miles in the ...
Ecuador Central Bank president resigns over degree
Ecuador's Central Bank president has resigned after acknowledging that he presented a fake academic degree 22 years ago — a scandal that prompted the ...
Venezuela court could decide on Chavez swearing-in
The president of Venezuela's Supreme Court said Thursday that it could decide whether it's constitutional to postpone the date of ailing President ...
YPF, Chevron sign Argentina shale pact
Argentina's cash-strapped state energy company signed a partnership deal Wednesday with Chevron Corp. for a "massive development" of the South ...
Venezuela VP hopes Chavez can be sworn in Jan. 10
Venezuela's vice president said on Wednesday that the government is still aiming for President Hugo Chavez to be sworn in for a new term as scheduled ...
Latin Americans rank as happiest people on planet
The world's happiest people aren't in Qatar, the richest country by most measures. They aren't in Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy.
Brazil company sells cellphones with iPhone name
It's not your Apple's iPhone. A Brazilian company has begun selling smartphones in Brazil with the iPhone brand after winning the legal right to use ...
The happiest and saddest countries in the world
Gallup Inc. asked roughly 1,000 people in each of 148 countries the following questions: Did you feel well-respected yesterday? Were you treated with ...
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...