| Fernandez spoke of gay Americans moving to Argentina to get married, frustrated at their own country. More importantly though, she felt the biggest impact would be on Latin America. Mexico, Brazil and Colombia are increasingly gay-friendly, ... |  GlobalPost |
| Juan Corona, 77, is making his seventh bid for parole from Corcoran State Prison in the southern Central Valley, California. The Mexican-born killer, known as The Machete Murderer, has been diagnosed with dementia and mental illness. ... |  Daily Mail |
| By Daniel Tovrov: Subscribe to Daniel's RSS feed Mexico's President Felipe Calderon defended his controversial and violent offensive against drug cartels, a war that has cost the country nearly 50000 lives since he was elected in 2006. ... |  International Business Times |
| Above, Brazilian inmates at Butanta prison in San Paulo compete in a beauty pageant to choose the most beautiful inmate of Sao Paulo state in 2004. But Brazil wasn't the first country to do prison pageants. Organizers of the 'Miss Captivity' beauty ... |  New York Daily News |
| More than 56 years later, Ziegler is on a crusade to get a historic marker placed at what archeologists say is one of the most significant early habitations in North America. Archeologists have found at the site roughly 900 artifacts from 11000 to ... |  The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com |
| Online travel and hotel reviews company, Easyvoyage, expects Buenos Aires to be a popular destination as people look to get away for some winter sun. Figures released by Buenos Aires authorities show that the city expects the number of visitors ... |  Breaking Travel News |
| On the last two occasions, we discussed, amongst other things, the death penalty in America and its moral implications. One of my colleagues is a moderate liberal, the other, an atheist conservative. I was surprised at their arguments for the death ... |  Korea Times |
| Hispanic residents make up 31 percent of the city's population, and last year, the metro region's Hispanic unemployment rate was 19.4 percent, 1.6 times greater than the unemployment level for non-Hispanic whites. "Latinos were certainly hit hard" by ... |  Pittsburgh Post Gazette |
| The countries with the lowest poverty rates were Argentina and Uruguay (8.6 percent), followed by Panama (25.8 percent), Venezuela (27.8 percent) and Peru (31.3 percent). ECLAC findings also indicate that poverty rate Latin America dropped 17 percent ... |  Press TV |
| BERLIN, Germany (defend.ht) - Haiti and Venezuela rank first and second in corruption and lack of transparency in the Western Hemisphere, according to a Transparency International (TI) annual report released on Thursday. Worldwide, out of 182 countries ... |  Defend Haiti |
| The Dominican Republic, she said, vies with Mexico and Guatemala for Latin America's highest rates for anti-women violence and killings. She blamed the government for failing to keep adequate statistics on anti-women violence, for tolerating judicial ... |  People's World |
| Latin American leaders have turned to facilitating the export of cocaine due to the large profit margins. Recently, African leaders have helped have their countries serve as hubs to transport cocaine from South America to Europe. ... |  News One |
