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Brazil court rules to extradite former Italian guerrilla
Brazil’s top court rules to extradite former Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti on murder charges but leaves the final decision to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who granted him refugee status early this year
Locals suffer in spat over US-Colombia pact
The political crisis in the violent region has hit businesses and people hard
Narco-bling overdose leaves museum in a fix
Mexico’s overflowing drugs museum’s litany of colourful exhibits lifts lid on President Calderón’s three-year war on narcotics and the industry’s less-than-modest characters
Chávez fails to deliver power to the people
Venezuelans in the capital are bracing themselves for drastic rationing as public services in the oil-rich nation sink ever deeper into crisis, threatening to undermine President Hugo Chávez’s support
Venezuela arrests Colombian ‘spies’
Venezuela’s capture of Colombian ‘spies’, which it accuses of being part of a US-backed plot to undermine its socialist government, has escalated a simmering conflict between the neighbouring Andean nations
Michael Skapinker: Brazil is the 21st-century power to watch
For all its problems with crime, the country has outstanding potential, a welcoming and richly diverse people and several world-class companies, writes Michael Skapinker
Helicopter downed as 14 killed in Rio violence
Two police officers and 10 suspected members of rival drugs gangs were killed in Rio de Janeiro after a gun battle in a hilltop shantytown that the authorities had been unable to prevent
Doubt over Chávez’s cure for health
Many Venezuelans blame Hugo Chávez for the crumbling decay of the oil-rich country’s public hospitals after years of neglect
Editorial: In a tango of debt
Argentina’s greatest handicap is its Peronist politics, which substitutes populism for policy. Argentines have been subjected to harmful export taxes, expropriated pensions and fudged inflation figures
Argentine protesters suspend bridge blockade
Residents of Gualeguaychú, a resort town, began their blockade of a bridge in November 2007 in protest at the construction of a pulp mill in nearby Uruguay which they say will contaminate the river that divides the nation
