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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

Honduras’ de facto regime repeals decree

Politicians face backlash over Polanski

Rio declares holiday for Olympics announcement

Beer finds Brazilian groove