http://www.mail.com/locations/2078-south-america.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.23/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/2078-south-america.html http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862708-dramatists-liken-venezuela-saga-to-telenovela.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A president who vanishes for weeks in a mysterious battle with cancer. Supporters who chant their allegiance in the streets. And in the midst of it all, an announcement by the government that it detected a plot to kill his chosen successor. The long and at times surreal saga surrounding the illness of President Hugo Chavez has ma... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862708-dramatists-liken-venezuela-saga-to-telenovela.html 2013-02-01T21:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862470-bolivia-mining-town-erects-huge-statue-virgin.html ORURO, Bolivia (AP) — The Carnival celebrations in this Andean mining city already rival Brazil's Rio de Janeiro for color and culture, if not for size. Now Oruro has erected a huge statue of the Virgin Mary that's a little taller than Rio's famed Christ the Redeemer. Oruro formally dedicated the new statue Friday as it kicked off its Carnival celebration... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:05:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1862470-bolivia-mining-town-erects-huge-statue-virgin.html 2013-02-01T17:05:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1859432-brazil-nightclub-fire-prompts-regional-reaction.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian authorities inspected and shuttered night spots around the country on Thursday as part of a crackdown on unsafe public spaces after a deadly nightclub fire left 235 people dead and shocked the nation. Officials in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Mexico followed Brazil's example and tightened scrutiny on their own nightclubs. ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1859432-brazil-nightclub-fire-prompts-regional-reaction.html 2013-01-31T20:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1856462-colombia-judge-nixes-ban-film-hostages-baby.html BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A judge has spurned a prominent Colombian's attempt to prevent the release of a feature film about the odyssey of the child born to her while she was a rebel hostage. The mother, Clara Rojas, had argued allowing the film "Operation E" to be shown in Colombian theaters would harm the development of her son, Emmanuel, who is now 9. B... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:50:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1856462-colombia-judge-nixes-ban-film-hostages-baby.html 2013-01-31T16:50:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1857840-argentine-court-upholds-freeze-chevron-assets.html BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An attempt by Chevron Corp. to unfreeze its assets was dismissed Wednesday by an appeals court in Argentina, where the winners of a $19 billion environmental judgment in Ecuador are suing to force the oil company to pay. Plaintiffs' attorney Pablo Fajardo told The Associated Press that the court refused to lift an embargo th... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1857840-argentine-court-upholds-freeze-chevron-assets.html 2013-01-31T02:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1857336-magnitude-68-earthquake-shakes-northern-chile.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude-6.8 earthquake shook offices, toppled supermarket shelves and broke windows on Wednesday in north-central Chile, where people fled some buildings in panic. A 50-year-old woman in the city of Copiapo died of a heart attack, said Atacama Regional Governor Rafael Prohens, who attributed her death to fear during the quake. A... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1857336-magnitude-68-earthquake-shakes-northern-chile.html 2013-01-30T23:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855590-brazil-nightclub-owner-blames-country-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The owner of a nightclub in southern Brazil where more than 230 people died in a fire last weekend deflected blame to "the whole country," as well as to architects and inspectors charged with making sure the building was safe, his lawyer said Wednesday. Attorney Jader Marques said his client, Elissandro Spohr, "regretted having ... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855590-brazil-nightclub-owner-blames-country-fire.html 2013-01-30T23:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1854380-mexico-breaks-up-alleged-border-sex-slavery-cult.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring among its followers on the U.S. border, Mexican immigration authorities said Tuesday. The "Defensores de Cristo" or "Defenders of Christ" allegedly recruited women to have sex with a Spanish man who claimed he was the reincarnation of Christ, according to an... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1854380-mexico-breaks-up-alleged-border-sex-slavery-cult.html 2013-01-30T08:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852862-brazil-police-outdoor-flare-started-club-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Penny-pinching by a band known for its onstage pyrotechnic displays may have cost more than 230 people their lives at a nightclub in southern Brazil, according to a police inspector leading the investigation into this weekend's deadly blaze. Inspector Marcelo Arigony told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that members of th... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852862-brazil-police-outdoor-flare-started-club-fire.html 2013-01-30T01:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855198-santa-maria-mourns-dead-calls-justice.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The young law student sat alone in a pew, clutching a shirt on which she'd written the names of friends she'd lost in a weekend nightclub fire in this Brazilian college town. It was grubby and wrinkled, as Halana Pinheiro Rubim alternately smoothed it out on her knees, tracing out the names, then clutched it and cried. "Luiza Al... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:45:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1855198-santa-maria-mourns-dead-calls-justice.html 2013-01-29T23:45:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1855032-fallout-nightclub-fires.html Investigators are determining the causes of a nightclub fire that killed at least 234 people in southern Brazil early Sunday, with criminal charges and other consequences likely. Here's a look at the legal and political fallout from some of the biggest nightclub fires of the past two decades: — A 2009 fire at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, kill... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1855032-fallout-nightclub-fires.html 2013-01-29T22:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1853282-ford-shares-4q-profit-eclipsed-europe.html DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is posting record profits in North America, but it's not enough to quell unease about the company's prospects elsewhere. Ford's shares dropped nearly 5 percent Tuesday after the company said it expects to lose more money in Europe this year and break even in Asia and South America. The final straw for investors: Ford said sales... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:19:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1853282-ford-shares-4q-profit-eclipsed-europe.html 2013-01-29T20:19:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852750-israel-angered-argentina-iran-bombing-probe.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel summoned the Argentinian ambassador on Tuesday in protest over an agreement between Iran and Argentina to jointly investigate the bombing 19 years ago of a Jewish center that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires and that was widely blamed on Tehran. The terror attack was the deadliest on Argentinian soil, coming just two years after a ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852750-israel-angered-argentina-iran-bombing-probe.html 2013-01-29T08:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852340-alarm-1-exit-brazil-nightclub-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The nightclub Kiss was hot, steamy from the press of beer-fueled bodies dancing close. The Brazilian country band on stage was whipping the young crowd into a frenzy, launching into another fast-paced, accordion-driven tune and lighting flares that spewed silver sparks into the air. It was another Saturday night in Santa Maria, ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1852340-alarm-1-exit-brazil-nightclub-fire.html 2013-01-29T03:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1851834-surviving-band-member-leads-police-to-bodies.html MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — The Colombian-style music group was playing at a ranch in northern Mexico when at least 10 gunmen entered the warehouse where the private party was being held and forced them and several crew members into waiting vehicles, a survivor of the attack told authorities. Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene said the survivor... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:09:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1851834-surviving-band-member-leads-police-to-bodies.html 2013-01-29T01:09:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1851210-neglect-errors-to-blame-brazil-nightclub-fire.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — There was no fire alarm. There were no sprinklers or fire escapes. And when a band member tried to put out a fire that had been started by pyrotechnics, the extinguisher didn't work. All the elements were in place for the tragedy at the Kiss nightclub early Sunday. The result was the world's worst fire of its kind in more than a... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1851210-neglect-errors-to-blame-brazil-nightclub-fire.html 2013-01-28T20:43:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850734-arrests-brazil-fire-funerals.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian police say they've made three arrests and are seeking a fourth person in connection with a nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people. Inspector Ranolfo Vieira Junior said at a Monday press conference that the arrests are for investigative purposes. He says the detentions have five-day limits. He declined to ident... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:35:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1850734-arrests-brazil-fire-funerals.html 2013-01-28T13:35:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1848980-brazil-nightclub-fire-kills-than-230-people.html SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) — The bodies of the young college students were found piled up just inside the entrance of the Kiss nightclub, among more than 230 people who died in a cloud of toxic smoke after a blaze enveloped the crowded locale within seconds and set off a panic. Hours later, the horrific chaos had transformed into a scene of tragic order, wi... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1848980-brazil-nightclub-fire-kills-than-230-people.html 2013-01-28T06:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1848786-world-gun-rules-results-vary-wildly.html OOI, Japan (AP) — After a tragedy like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the statistic is always trotted out. Compared to just about anywhere else with a stable, developed government — and many countries without even that — the more than 11,000 gun-related killings each year in the United States are simply off the charts. To be sure, ther... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:42:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1848786-world-gun-rules-results-vary-wildly.html 2013-01-28T00:42:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1849182-inmates-moved-bloody-venezuela-prison-clash.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities finished evacuating more than 2,000 inmates on Sunday from a prison where the government said 58 people were killed in one of the deadliest prison clashes in the nation's history. More than two days after the bloodshed, Penitentiary Service Minister Iris Varela released an official death toll and said 46 wo... Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:10:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1849182-inmates-moved-bloody-venezuela-prison-clash.html 2013-01-28T00:10:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1849686-brazil-blaze-recalls-pain-ri-fire-survivors.html Argentina, a year later. Thailand in 2008. Russia in 2009. For survivors of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that was one of the deadliest in U.S. history, the fire in Brazil that killed hundreds Sunday is the latest in a series of reminders that no matter how far away, those who ignore the lessons of their tragedy can pay a horrible cost. ... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1849686-brazil-blaze-recalls-pain-ri-fire-survivors.html 2013-01-27T20:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1847980-hospital-61-killed-venezuela-prison-riot.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The death toll has risen to 61 following fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more people were wounded in one of the deadliest prison riots in the nation's history. Penitentiary Service Minister Iris Varela said Saturday that officials had... Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:49:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1847980-hospital-61-killed-venezuela-prison-riot.html 2013-01-27T01:49:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1847456-chavez-starting-medical-treatment-cuba.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defeated a respiratory infection and has begun additional medical treatment in Cuba after struggling with complications following cancer surgery more than six weeks ago, a government spokesman said Saturday. Venezuelan Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said that it remains unclear how soon Ch... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:11:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1847456-chavez-starting-medical-treatment-cuba.html 2013-01-26T23:11:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847420-europes-emigrants-face-red-tape-latin-america.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Geologist David Rodriguez and actress Cristina Pascual, two of the nearly six million Spaniards left jobless in the European recession, fled to Latin America last year, figuring their futures would be brighter in the booming economies on this side of the Atlantic. Instead, they found themselves stuck, facing so many bureaucratic hur... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:46:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847420-europes-emigrants-face-red-tape-latin-america.html 2013-01-26T05:46:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847174-brazil-bar-codes-sidewalks-tourist-info.html RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are a symbol of the city. The first two-dimensional bar codes, or QR codes, as they're known, were installed Friday at Arpoador, a massive boulder that rises at the en... Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/1847174-brazil-bar-codes-sidewalks-tourist-info.html 2013-01-26T02:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1846684-chavez-impersonator-cancer-laughing-matter.html MIAMI (AP) — It's an hour before showtime, and Gustavo Rios is transforming himself into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. A makeup artist paints his skin a dark olive tone. A plastic mole is glued strategically on the upper right corner of his forehead. Large, latex ears and a short, black wig cover his head as he squints and purses his lips in front of ... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:40:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1846684-chavez-impersonator-cancer-laughing-matter.html 2013-01-25T21:40:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1846072-un-deputy-chief-urges-action-water-rights.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Most of the world's urgent problems boil down to water and sanitation, and global leaders must act to reduce child mortality and urban poverty, the UN's deputy chief said Friday. There are 783 million people who lack access to clean or relatively safe water and 2.5 billion people, or 37 percent of the world's population, who don't h... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1846072-un-deputy-chief-urges-action-water-rights.html 2013-01-25T16:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1845026-chile-aims-to-focus-summit-brighter-side.html SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — European, Latin American and Caribbean leaders gathering for this weekend's economic summit will likely see only one side of Chile — the polished, upscale country where tourists and investors stay in five-star hotels in a sparklingly clean financial district nicknamed "Sanhattan," well away from Santiago's slums. Hundreds of securit... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 05:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/markets/1845026-chile-aims-to-focus-summit-brighter-side.html 2013-01-25T05:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1844088-absent-omnipresent-chavez-powerful-symbol.html CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — While Venezuela's sick president recuperates from surgery behind closed doors in Cuba, at home he is more visible than ever. Iconic images of his eyes look out from murals lining the streets of Caracas, his portrait appears on T-shirts sported by followers, and on television he can be heard booming "I am a nation!" Though still a... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 02:25:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1844088-absent-omnipresent-chavez-powerful-symbol.html 2013-01-25T02:25:00Z