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2010-09-01 21:02

New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist (AP)

In this photo released by the state media Cubadebate web site, Fidel Castro, left, stands with U.S. journalist of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, second from right, and Cuban Jewish Community President Adela Dworin, third from right, at the National Aquarium in Havana, Cuba, Monday Aug. 30, 2010. Goldberg is a national correspondent for the magazine who has written on the Middle East and Iran. (AP Photo/Estudios Revolucion, Cubadebate)AP - Cuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based policy expert, while a Mexican newspaper published an interview in which the gray-bearded revolutionary expressed regret for past persecution of homosexuals.


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2010-09-01 21:02

Mexicans hope drug lord's arrest may turn tide (Reuters)

Mexican police stand guard in front of a bar in Cancun, Mexico on August 31. Mexican and US officials opened a first joint office to manage the distribution of more than 1.3 billion dollars in US security aid to help fight Mexico's brutal drug gangs.(AFP/Jose Dominguez)Reuters - Mexico paraded one of its most violent drug lords on Tuesday after a police raid that President Felipe Calderon's government hopes will mark a breakthrough in its campaign against powerful cartels.


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2010-09-01 21:02

Farmer-turned-hunger striker dies in Venezuela (AP)

In this photo taken Sept. 27, 2009, Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito holds a hunger strike outside the offices of the Organization of American States (OEA) in Caracas, Venezuela. Brito, a farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela's government, died in a military hospital on Aug. 31, 2010, igniting finger-pointing between critics of President Hugo Chavez and the government. (AP Photo/Orinoquiaphoto, Jimmy Villalta)AP - A farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela's government has died in a military hospital where he had been taken against his will.


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2010-09-01 14:52

Mexico lauds capture of top drug lord as violence rages (AFP)

Edgar Valdez Villareal aka 'La Barbie' (C) of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, is presented to the press at the Federal Police headquarters in Mexico City. Mexican authorities on Tuesday paraded a top drug lord in public, presenting his capture as a much-needed victory in the growing battle against the country's vicious traffickers.(AFP/Alfredo Estrella)AFP - Mexican authorities on Tuesday paraded a top drug lord in public, presenting his capture as a much-needed victory in the escalating battle against the country's vicious traffickers.


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2010-09-01 14:52

Hold off on booze, NASA urges trapped Chile miners (Reuters)

Trapped miners are seen underground in a copper and gold mine at Copiapo, some 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago, in this frame grab taken August 29, 2010. REUTERS/Chilean Mining Ministry/HandoutReuters - Already deprived of sunlight, fresh air and their loved ones for 26 days, NASA doctors say 33 miners trapped deep in a Chilean mine must continue to forego two other pleasures: alcohol and cigarettes.


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2010-09-01 14:52

Mexico, US open joint office to combat drug gangs (AFP)

Mexican police stand guard in front of a bar in Cancun, Mexico on August 31, 2010. At least eight people were killed when molotov cocktails were thrown into a bar in Cancun, a resort area popular with US tourists. Mexican and US officials opened a first joint office to manage the distribution of more than 1.3 billion dollars in US security aid to help fight Mexico's brutal drug gangs.(AFP/Jose Dominguez)AFP - Mexican and US officials opened a first joint office to manage the distribution of more than 1.3 billion dollars in US security aid to help fight brutal drug gangs.


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2010-09-01 08:53

Venezuela hunger striker's death angers Chavez foes (Reuters)

Reuters - A Venezuelan farmer who died after a hunger strike to protest President Hugo Chavez's land takeover policies was denied his own doctor and has become a symbol for the oppressed, his mourning family said.

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2010-09-01 08:53

Fidel Castro takes blame for 1960s gay persecution (Reuters)

Undated picture released by website Cubadebate on August 30, 2010, shows former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and director of Mexican daily Reuters - Fidel Castro took the blame for a wave of homophobia launched by his revolutionary government in the 1960s, but said it happened because he was distracted by other problems, in an interview published on Tuesday in a Mexican newspaper.


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2010-09-01 08:53

Ex-Argentine officer fights extradition from US (AP)

AP - A former Argentine navy lieutenant wanted for prosecution in his homeland for his alleged role in a 1972 massacre of leftist guerrillas has committed no crime and should not be sent back, his attorney told a U.S. judge Tuesday.

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2010-09-01 02:49

Chile rescuers begin work of drilling to miners (AP)

People ask for food, handed out by Chilean authorities, at the camp where relatives of 33 trapped miners wait for news outside the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. The miners, who have been trapped since the shaft they were working in collapsed on Aug. 5, were confirmed to be alive Aug. 22 when they were reached by rescue teams via a small hole through which they could pass messages and see the miners with a camera. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Thirty-three men stuck far underground are now the longest-trapped miners in recent history as a huge drill begins digging a planned escape route.


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2010-09-01 02:49

Eight killed in attack on Cancun bar (AFP)

Edgar Valdez Villareal aka 'La Barbie' (C) of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, is presented to the press at the Federal Police headquarters in Mexico City. Mexican authorities on Tuesday paraded a top drug lord in public, presenting his capture as a much-needed victory in the growing battle against the country's vicious traffickers.(AFP/Alfredo Estrella)AFP - At least eight people were killed when molotov cocktails were thrown into a bar in the Mexican town of Cancun, a resort area popular with US tourists, officials said Tuesday.


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2010-09-01 02:49

8 dead in fire at bar in Mexican resort of Cancun (AP)

AP - Six women and two men died Tuesday in a fire at a bar frequented by locals in the Mexican resort of Cancun, and bar employees have told police that unidentified men tossed gasoline bombs at the establishment.

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