| | Mexico: Ex-ruling party rebounds in local election
11:33AM CT
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) - The party that governed Mexico for 71 consecutive years has rebounded in local elections, returns showed on Monday, and a poll had it jumping into the lead for next year's national congressional vote. | | |
Tropical Storm Norbert strengthens off Mexico
10:17AM CT
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Tropical Storm Norbert is growing toward hurricane force off Mexico's Pacific coast and forecasters say it might bring weekend rains and wind to the Baja California Peninsula. | | |
5 police held in deadly clash at Mexican ruins
Oct 5 2008 11:15PM CT
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) - Five state police officers were arrested in southern Mexico on Sunday in connection with a deadly raid to dislodge protesters from a Mayan archaeological site. | | |
 Shootings sour municipal elections in Brazil
Oct 5 2008 9:58PM CT
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Isolated shootings in Brazil soured Sunday's municipal elections that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's allies hope will give them a leg up on 2010's presidential vote. | | |
Venezuela bureaucrats told to trim high living
Oct 5 2008 4:44PM CT
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Bureaucrats in oil-rich Venezuela can look forward to fewer expensive SUVs, top-of-the-line mobile telephones and whiskey-fueled parties next year. | | |
 Mexican police find 9 bodies dumped in Tijuana
Oct 4 2008 10:45PM CT
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) - Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where nearly 50 people have been killed in a week of violence related to the drug trade. | | |
 Morales ups rhetoric against US anti-drug aid
Oct 4 2008 4:40PM CT
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - President Evo Morales said Saturday that Bolivia does not need U.S. help to control its coca crop, stepping up his anti-Washington rhetoric days after rejecting an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over the South American nation's territory. | | |
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