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Clown convention opens in Mexico
Oct 16 2006 10:33PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - There was hardly room for all the big feet and rubber noses as hundreds of clowns from across Latin America opened a four-day convention in a Mexico City theater on Monday.
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Mexico's first lady wins round in court
Oct 16 2006 9:58PM (CT)
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's first lady won another round in court Monday, when a judge reinstated an earlier decision ordering an Argentine journalist and a Mexican magazine to pay her $180,000 for invasion of privacy.
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Peron to be reburied in Argentina
Oct 16 2006 9:57PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Late strongman Juan Domingo Peron, who dominated Argentine politics like no other 20th century leader with his wife Evita at his side, will be buried Tuesday for a third time since his death in 1974.
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2 set for presidential runoff in Ecuador
Oct 16 2006 9:11PM (CT)
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - A pro-U.S. billionaire and a leftist economist who admires Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez headed to a runoff campaign Monday that threatens to aggravate political instability in Ecuador, where the last three presidents have been driven from power by street protests.
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44 Chilean high school students detained
Oct 16 2006 9:01PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Police briefly detained 44 high school students who seized their school Monday in renewed protests over what they see as the government's slow progress toward reforming Chile's education laws.
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Online gambling flourishes in Costa Rica
Oct 16 2006 8:29PM (CT)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Several operators of Internet gambling sites in Costa Rica known as "sportsbooks" say their businesses will not be significantly affected by a new U.S. law prohibiting bank and credit card payments to the sites.
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Guatemala, Venezuela even for U.N. seat
Oct 16 2006 8:26PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Venezuela and Guatemala hit a deadlock Monday in their battle for a seat on the powerful U.N. Security Council, after 10 rounds of voting failed to anoint a winner to fill the spot reserved for Latin America.
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Brazil president denies dirty tricks
Oct 16 2006 6:00PM (CT)
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that he had no prior knowledge of an alleged dirty-tricks campaign against the party of his rival in the Oct. 29 runoff presidential elections _ a scandal widely believed to have cost the incumbent a first round victory.
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Leftists allege fraud in Mexican voting
Oct 16 2006 4:50PM (CT)
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) - Mexico's main leftist party on Monday accused its rivals of fraud in the gubernatorial election for the home state of a fiery former presidential candidate who made similar complaints after losing his own race in July.
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Ex-Peru president Valentin Paniagua dies
Oct 16 2006 11:49AM (CT)
LIMA, Peru (AP) - Former President Valentin Paniagua, an unassuming former law professor who shepherded Peru back to democracy as interim president following the 2000 collapse of Alberto Fujimori's autocratic regime, died Monday. He was 69.
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Venezuela eyes Security Council seat
Oct 16 2006 5:27AM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela would win a U.N. Security Council seat Monday in a fiercely contested vote that would give his leftist government its biggest platform yet for challenging the United States.
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