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Chavez says spain arms deal will go ahead
Nov 23 2005 11:01PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed Wednesday that a $2 billion agreement to buy planes and boats from Spain would go ahead despite U.S. opposition.
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Report: democracy better in Latin America
Nov 23 2005 9:35PM (CT)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Led by Chile and Costa Rica, governments throughout Latin America are showing increasing commitments to democracy, an international research group said Wednesday.
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Bolivian president under fire for missiles
Nov 23 2005 8:34PM (CT)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - Presidential candidate Evo Morales on Wednesday criticized Bolivia's leader for sending 30 surface-to-air missiles to the United States for deactivation.
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Chavez brings oil diplomacy to U.S.
Nov 23 2005 5:41PM (CT)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strengthened his Latin American ties with generous oil deals that he is now extending north to the United States, with plans to ship cheap heating oil to low-income people in New York and Massachusetts.
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Pinochet indicted on tax evasion charges
Nov 23 2005 3:30PM (CT)
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Two days short of his 90th birthday, Gen. Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest Wednesday at his Santiago mansion for alleged tax evasion _ not the thousands of deaths and disappearances for which opponents have long tried to have him imprisoned.
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Cuba raises pay, Castro attacks 'new rich'
Nov 23 2005 3:26PM (CT)
HAVANA (AP) - Cuba announced a major increase in government salaries Wednesday, saying days after President Fidel Castro declared war on the nation's "new rich" that it wanted to reward workers with high productivity and advanced university degrees.
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