Venezuela parliament resumes 3 weeks after brawl 
Updated: May-21-13 9:26 pm
- Soldiers flood western Mexico to protect towns

Updated: May-21-13 5:40 pm
- Guatemala ruling could keep ex-leader from prison

Updated: May-21-13 7:36 pm
- Brazil party challenges ruling on gay marriage
Updated: May-21-13 5:50 pm
- Protesters hurl firebombs as Chile leader speaks

Updated: May-21-13 8:14 pm
- Brazil commission says abusers could be tried

Updated: May-21-13 4:19 pm
- Ex-Ford execs charged in Argentine torture cases
Updated: May-21-13 7:09 pm
- Bolivia lashes at Sean Penn over jailed American
Updated: May-21-13 5:52 pm
- Struggling Spain offers engineers to Brazil
Updated: May-21-13 3:31 pm
- Ex-Arg. dictator Videla died after shower fall

Updated: May-20-13 6:31 pm
- Chile miner happy to be played by Banderas in film

Updated: May-20-13 5:57 pm
- Large earthquake strikes off coast of Chile
Updated: May-20-13 9:19 am
- Dissident ex-general released in Venezuela
Updated: May-18-13 10:23 pm
- Mexico judge orders prison for suspects in killing
Updated: May-18-13 9:52 pm
- Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina

Updated: May-18-13 7:56 pm
- Brazil beefs up security for Confederations Cup
Updated: May-18-13 12:31 pm
- LAN suspends flights in Argentina over conflict
Updated: May-17-13 10:07 pm
- Mexico to create police unit to search for missing
Updated: May-17-13 8:07 pm
- OAS drug study eyes marijuana legalization

Updated: May-17-13 7:58 pm
- Argentine dictator Videla dies in prison at age 87

Updated: May-17-13 4:48 pm
- Venezuela's military enters high-crime slums

Updated: May-17-13 4:13 pm
- Mexico cuts growth outlook from 3.5 to 3.1 percent
Updated: May-17-13 3:48 pm
- Brazil approves law to modernize ports
Updated: May-17-13 3:42 pm
- Hundreds of dead animals wash up on Chile's shores
Updated: May-17-13 1:43 pm
- Road-builder: landowner allowed pyramid excavation

Updated: May-16-13 9:54 pm
- Bolivia's Morales faces 11th day of protests

Updated: May-16-13 9:52 pm
- Use of Internet and cellphones soars in Brazil
Updated: May-16-13 5:06 pm
- Venezuelans scrambling to find scarce toilet paper

Updated: May-16-13 4:39 pm
- Argentina brokers 24 pct wage hikes for millions
Updated: May-16-13 9:58 am
- Mexico volcano registers more seismic activity

Updated: May-15-13 9:07 pm
- Colombia court convicts ex-lawmaker in massacre
Updated: May-15-13 8:43 pm
- Nicaragua extradites US man in $137M fraud case
Updated: May-15-13 8:31 pm
- Mexico fires official in flap over influence abuse
Updated: May-15-13 6:37 pm
- Retrial ordered in case of US nun slain in Brazil

Updated: May-15-13 5:20 pm
- El Salvador court hears arguments in abortion case
Updated: May-15-13 5:11 pm
- LATAM airlines Q1 profit down almost half year ago
Updated: May-15-13 4:05 pm
- Buenos Aires launches tours for Argentine pope

Updated: May-15-13 3:27 pm
- Amnesty for undeclared dollars divides Argentina

Updated: May-15-13 2:07 pm
- Education woes seen as Achilles' heel of Brazil

Updated: May-15-13 1:11 pm
- Colombian government, rebels resume peace talks
Updated: May-15-13 12:52 pm
- 6 men executed at car lot in northern Mexican
Updated: May-15-13 12:38 pm
- Belizean government condemns pyramid destruction

Updated: May-15-13 9:08 am
- Brazil judge lifts Maracana concession injunction

Updated: May-14-13 9:28 pm
- Brazilian must register gay unions as marriages
Updated: May-14-13 2:58 pm
- Venezuela food maker denies blame for shortages

Updated: May-13-13 6:59 pm
- Nicaragua police expel news photographer for AFP
Updated: May-13-13 6:35 pm
- Chile denies deal to export fresh water to Qatar
Updated: May-13-13 5:12 pm
- 5 Argentines convicted of killing baby in robbery
Updated: May-13-13 5:12 pm
- AP IMPACT: Honduran criminals missing after arrest

Updated: May-13-13 2:58 pm
- Unlikely tourist ride: Rio shantytown cable car

Updated: May-13-13 11:33 am
- Venezuela's 'Carlos the Jackal' seeks repatriation
Updated: May-12-13 8:57 pm
- 2 Spanish men killed in Mexican state of Sinaloa
Updated: May-11-13 10:46 pm
- ICC asked to investigate alleged Venezuela abuse

Updated: May-10-13 10:31 pm
- Rios Montt: From army to dictatorship to courtroom

Updated: May-10-13 7:38 pm
- Colombia's first saint championed indigenous

Updated: May-10-13 6:09 pm
- Alleged Brazilian torturer speaks to commission
Updated: May-10-13 4:14 pm
- Colorados regain control of Paraguay's Congress
Updated: May-10-13 3:20 pm
- Post-attack, top reporter worries his cover blown

Updated: May-10-13 12:08 pm
- AP PHOTOS: Eerie ghost town comes up for air

Updated: May-10-13 8:07 am
- Uruguay general gets 28 years in prisoner's murder
Updated: May-09-13 5:53 pm
- Venezuela: US officials get access to American
Updated: May-09-13 4:53 pm
- Brazil state launches crack rehabilitation program

Updated: May-09-13 3:49 pm
- Brazil allows in vitro for gay couples
Updated: May-09-13 3:10 pm
- Death toll in Mexico gas explosion rises to 24
Updated: May-09-13 2:27 pm
- Venezuelan politics get personal, divide families

Updated: May-09-13 1:45 pm
- Vatican: Mexico's folk Death Saint is blasphemous

Updated: May-09-13 12:07 am
- Panama seeks to cut power use because of drought
Updated: May-08-13 10:53 pm
- Mexico seeks easier foreclosures, cheaper loans

Updated: May-08-13 9:10 pm
- 4 investigators go missing in northern Mexico
Updated: May-08-13 8:49 pm
- Venezuela leader, rivals take battle on the road

Updated: May-08-13 8:23 pm
- Bolivia's challenge: Making coca palatable

Updated: May-08-13 7:13 pm
- Correction: Mexico-Gas Explosion story
Updated: May-08-13 6:53 pm
- Brazil slum study: Mobile health tech promising
Updated: May-08-13 6:34 pm
- Brazilian woman survives harpoon shooting

Updated: May-08-13 6:31 pm
- Brazil helicopter crashes near Sugarloaf Mountain
Updated: May-08-13 5:55 pm
- Egypt wants to attract Brazilian investors

Updated: May-08-13 5:11 pm
- Brazil: Police detain pastor on rape allegations
Updated: May-08-13 3:59 pm
- Argentina offers tax amnesty for undeclared cash

Updated: May-07-13 7:59 pm
- Brazil police probe killing of drug trafficker
Updated: May-07-13 5:27 pm
- Colombia cops: Fake nuns hid cocaine under habits
Updated: May-06-13 8:05 pm
- Family: No US access to man held in 'nightmare'
Updated: May-06-13 7:20 pm
- Peru mayor: 14 wounded as police fire on minibus
Updated: May-06-13 6:37 pm
- AP PHOTOS: Buenos Aires a street art Mecca

Updated: May-06-13 11:57 am
- Mexico president commemorates Cinco de Mayo

Updated: May-05-13 11:22 pm
- Honduras and Guatemala join Petrocaribe program
Updated: May-05-13 5:10 pm
- Venezuela to tap military to fight crime
Updated: May-05-13 3:22 pm
- Chile's Bachelet courts Communists for big reforms

Updated: May-05-13 1:28 pm
- Venezuela's government condemns Obama's comments

Updated: May-04-13 9:34 pm
- Obama says he won't comment on Israeli airstrike

Updated: May-04-13 6:16 pm
- Obama: US not interfering in Venezuelan election
Updated: May-04-13 4:41 pm
- Issues back home trail Obama on Latin America trip


Updated: May-04-13 4:07 pm
- Obama: Unsure whether expanded pre-K will pass

Updated: May-04-13 1:56 pm
- Outlook grim in Venezuela's essential oil industry

Updated: May-04-13 10:41 am
- Angry with Peru, Maduro calls home ambassador
Updated: May-03-13 10:59 pm
- Central America struggles to unite for Obama trip

Updated: May-03-13 9:11 pm
- Obama doesn't foresee US ground troops in Syria

Updated: May-03-13 8:52 pm
- Obama supports including gays in immigration bill

Updated: May-03-13 8:05 pm
- Obama doesn't foresee ground troops in Syria
Updated: May-03-13 7:56 pm
- Obama: Will 'stay on' Syria chemical weapons issue
Updated: May-03-13 7:55 pm
- Mexico: journalist killings go largely unpunished
Updated: May-03-13 4:20 pm
- Mexico detains Central America, India migrants
Updated: May-03-13 3:20 pm
- Tests show Chile's Neruda suffered advanced cancer
Updated: May-03-13 3:16 pm
- Mexico arrests 4 leaders of teachers protests
Updated: May-03-13 12:28 pm
- Sole opposition TV channel in Venez makes changes
Updated: May-03-13 9:47 am
- Migrants to Obama: Don't deport Mama

Updated: May-03-13 8:19 am
- Attack on train in Mexico injures 10 migrants

Updated: May-02-13 10:02 pm
- Guatemala cracks down on anti-mine protests

Updated: May-02-13 9:56 pm
- Obama: Security relationship with Mexico to evolve
Updated: May-02-13 6:41 pm
- Obama: Immigration important for US-Mexico trade
Updated: May-02-13 6:14 pm
- Top Colombian investigative journalist attacked
Updated: May-02-13 6:04 pm
- 8 bodies found in Guatemala clandestine grave
Updated: May-02-13 3:30 pm
- Bolivia president expels US government aid agency

Updated: May-01-13 8:57 pm
- Peru: Man accused in killing 3-day-old found dead

Updated: May-01-13 8:47 pm
- US keeps Cuba on state sponsors of terrorism list
Updated: May-01-13 7:41 pm
- 6 dead in crash of Mexican prosecutors' plane
Updated: May-01-13 4:51 pm
- Paramilitary soap opera stirs dispute in Colombia

Updated: May-01-13 12:07 pm
- Mexico City subway baby to ride free for life
Updated: May-01-13 10:43 am
- CentAm businessmen propose building gas pipeline
Updated: Apr-30-13 6:39 pm
- Barrick: Argentine side of Pascua Lama continues
Updated: Apr-30-13 5:12 pm
- Mexico seeks new security, economic agenda with US

Updated: Apr-30-13 4:37 pm
- Chile's Golborne quits president race amid scandal

Updated: Apr-29-13 7:27 pm
- Brazil's Embraer inks 30-jet deal with United
Updated: Apr-29-13 6:47 pm
- Mexico says smugglers abandon migrants at sea
Updated: Apr-29-13 11:29 am
- 5 saved, 2 missing after balloon goes into Pacific
Updated: Apr-29-13 10:50 am
- Mexican journalists march against attacks on press

Updated: Apr-28-13 4:43 pm
- Leftist priests: Francis can fix church 'in ruins'

Updated: Apr-28-13 11:13 am
- Mexican teachers attack political party offices

Updated: Apr-24-13 10:14 pm
- Bolivia prays for Virgin of Copacabana after theft

Updated: Apr-24-13 6:48 pm
- CORRECTION: Guatemala-Rios Montt
Updated: Apr-24-13 5:54 pm
- Venezuela wrestles over truth of bombing claims
Updated: Apr-24-13 3:34 pm
- Argentine Congress aims to 'democratize' courts
Updated: Apr-24-13 2:58 pm
- High-profile corruption cases fall apart in Mexico

Updated: Apr-24-13 2:17 am
- 1,800 police officers go on strike in Honduras
Updated: Apr-23-13 7:36 pm
- Venezuela to take steps to reduce blackouts
Updated: Apr-23-13 6:50 pm
- Mexico house OKs loosening foreign land ownership
Updated: Apr-23-13 6:15 pm
- Venezuelan govt targets disaffected ex-supporters

Updated: Apr-23-13 4:27 pm
- Argentina tells SEC it wants proof in bribery case
Updated: Apr-23-13 2:44 pm
- NYT to distribute columns by Brazil's ex-president
Updated: Apr-23-13 1:10 pm
- UN lowers 2013 Latin America growth forecast
Updated: Apr-23-13 11:40 am
- Honduras uncovers plot to kill lawmaker, reporter
Updated: Apr-22-13 10:16 pm
- Mexico crime beat reporter missing for 3 months
Updated: Apr-22-13 9:46 pm
- Nicaragua nabs US most-wanted child pornography suspect

Updated: Apr-22-13 7:13 pm
- Pope Francis, in his own words, on the issues

Updated: Apr-22-13 4:16 pm
- Ex-bishop's widow wants optional priestly celibacy

Updated: Apr-22-13 3:28 pm
- AP PHOTOS: Ecuador embraces Mexican mariachi music

Updated: Apr-22-13 2:34 pm
- Chile's president names new education minister
Updated: Apr-22-13 1:04 pm
- Venezuelan president shuffles Cabinet
Updated: Apr-22-13 4:50 am
- Quake causes buildings to sway in Mexico City
Updated: Apr-21-13 9:55 pm
- Mexico: German sought in sex ring case recaptured
Updated: Apr-21-13 8:58 pm
- Suspected drug smuggler arrested in Venezuela
Updated: Apr-21-13 7:07 pm