Bachelet: Chile left's hope in presidential vote
Michelle Bachelet has a deep resume: daughter of a general tortured to death for opposing a coup, leftist exile during the ensuing bloody ...
Antarctica concerns grow as tourism numbers rise
Across most of Earth, a tourist attraction that sees 35,000 visitors a year can safely be labeled sleepy. But when it's Antarctica, every footstep ...
Hugo Chavez coffin parades past Venezuela's ills
The road from the military academy where Hugo Chavez's body has been lying in state to the hilltop museum where he'll be displayed indefinitely is ...
Vatican criticizes campaign against pope
The honeymoon that Pope Francis has enjoyed since his remarkable election hit a bump Friday, with the Vatican lashing out at what it called a ...
Correction: Pope-Latin America story
In a story March 14 about the significance the election of Pope Francis to Latin America, The Associated Press misidentified the president of El ...
Brazil's new oil revenue law goes into effect
A new oil law that gives a greater share of royalty revenues from Brazil's vast oil fields to non-producing states went into effect Friday and ...
Pope Francis reaches out to Jews
Like his predecessor, Pope Francis reached out to Rome's Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the ...
Argentines celebrate Francis as their 'slum pope'
For more than a billion Roman Catholics worldwide, he's Pope Francis. For Argentina's poorest citizens, crowded in "misery villages" throughout the ...
Venezuelans left with problems after Chavez death
Venezuelans are lining up to bid their last farewell to Hugo Chavez along a route that's a reminder of the problems left behind after the late ...
Venezuela's opposition ground down by Chavistas
The people tapped by Hugo Chavez to carry on his socialist revolution seem to be improvising the rules of governing as they march toward what most ...
Pope's former neighbor recalls his 'love' letter
An Argentine woman who grew up as the neighbor of the future Pope Francis says she was very briefly the object of his affections when they were just ...
UK's Cameron disagrees with pope over Falklands
The pope may be infallible to his followers, but not to British Prime Minister David Cameron. Pope Francis — the Argentine cardinal elected as the new ...
Priest kidnapped by junta: Reconciled with pope
A Jesuit priest whose kidnapping by the Argentine military junta decades ago led to strong criticism of the newly elected pope said Friday that he and ...
New style of papacy: Pope Francis pays hotel bill
On his first day as shepherd of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, Pope Francis picked up his luggage at a Vatican hotel, personally thanked each ...
Pope's partial lung shouldn't affect duties
The new pope has daunting challenges ahead ranging from the church sex abuse scandal to reinvigorating the flock. And the 76-year-old Francis will ...
New pope tied up in Argentina's 'dirty war' debate
It's beyond dispute that Jorge Mario Bergoglio, like most other Argentines, failed to openly confront the 1976-1983 military junta as it kidnapped and ...
New pope's views bind simplicity with 'complexity'
At gatherings of Latin American bishops, then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was often a star speaker about economic inequities in a profit-driven world.
Argentina's pope goes for the Saints in soccer
He could have chosen the Devils. Instead he turned to the Saints. In a country where a blurry line separates religion from football, or soccer as ...
Pope Francis: Simple image, complex past
On the streets in Buenos Aires, the stories about the cardinal who would become the first pope from the Americas often include a very ordinary ...
Argentine Jorge Bergoglio elected Pope Francis
From "the end of the earth," the Catholic Church found a surprising new leader Wednesday, a pioneer pope from Argentina who took the name Francis, a ...
Catholics overjoyed at 1st Latin American pope
Tears and cheers erupted across Latin America on Wednesday as an Argentine cardinal became the first pope from the hemisphere, and many expressed hope ...
Argentine leader wishes pope well despite clashes
President Cristina Fernandez will travel to the Vatican to attend her fellow Argentine Jorge Bergoglio's first Mass as Pope Francis on March 19, and ...
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