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Cuban dissident freed after death of fellow activist

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Cuban authorities released dissident hunger striker Guillermo Farinas from prison Friday, a day after another hunger striker died while protesting his arrest.

It’s official. The bad boy of Haitian music is now the troubled nation’s new president.

A purported leader of the infamous La Linea criminal organization has been arrested in Mexico, state-run media reported, citing a military leader.

They delay televised football matches in Brazil and have even brought forward prayer meetings where they are watched abroad.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is urging countries in the Gulf region to support Iraq’s newly created government as she prepares to head to an international forum on development and the environment.

Jamaica’s prime minister Wednesday rejected allegations that he was “a known criminal affiliate” of a suspected drug lord, calling them “libellous,” “scurrilous” and “malicious.”

Brazil’s environment minister has declared a state of emergency in 14 states and the capital’s federal district because of a large number of fires, the government’s Agencia Brazil news outlet reported Wednesday.

The military operation to clear a Rio de Janeiro slum of drug traffickers will effectively turn into an occupation of the area at least through October of next year, Gov. Sergio Cabral said in a radio interview Tuesday.

Seven people were killed when a small plane crashed after takeoff on Wednesday outside Quebec City in Canada, according to Quebec City Jean Lesage International Airport spokesman Richard Girard.

Increased cooperation with the United States in the fight against Mexican drug cartels is vital, but American agents will always be limited on their actions in the country, Mexico’s interior ministry said Wednesday.

With the death of the poet Peter Orlovsky in late May a chapter in America’s cultural life came to a discreet end.

Seven of the 10 oil workers who went missing in the Gulf of Mexico last week were found alive Sunday, said Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Pemex.

Honduran prosecutors issued arrest warrants for the country’s six top military commanders for abuse of power in connection with the coup that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya last year.

Eleven inmates died in a fight at a Mexican prison Tuesday afternoon, the public safety ministry in Durango state said.

Hurricane Rick weakened to a Category 3 storm early Monday as it churned toward Mexico’s Pacific coast, forecasters said.

The New Year will be big for female politicians in Latin America.


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