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Spying charges, troop movements and mysterious killings along the border between Venezuela and Colombia are stoking a long-running diplomatic dispute that some are calling the "Cold War" of the Andes.

While a drought has put Caracas under widespread water rationing for the first time in years, for Venezuelans in this hillside slum it's just more of the same.

Populist leaders around Latin America are increasingly making legal and political moves to silence their media critics, the president of the Inter American Press Association said Friday.

President Fernando Lugo sacked the commander of Paraguay's armed forces, two days after firing a trio of top military commanders amid rumours of a potential coup, government sources said on Friday.

Rational discussion defeated "ideological diatribes," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said at Sunday's close of the Summit of Americas, which was hailed a success despite a boycott of the final communique by a socialist bloc of countries.

November 05, 2009 It's tragic for any child to be on a bad track, to take drugs, to sell drugs, to lose their precious evanescent youth to the drug culture.

RE: "Fight terrorism in South Florida," by Venezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez-Herrera, Nov.

Aziz Ansari and Amy Poehler in "Parks and Recreation." Unlike the big-city cops, doctors and lawyers who crowd their TV screens, most Americans are surrounded by provincial folks who tend to speak about their small-beans pursuits in the most grandiose terms imaginable.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 8:31 pm US/Eastern CARACAS, Venezuela Swine flu has appeared among Venezuela's Yanomami Indians, one of the largest isolated indigenous groups in the Amazon, and a doctor said Wednesday that the virus is suspected in seven deaths, including six infants.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has criticized U.S. President Barack Obama over a U.S. agreement with Colombia that allows American troops access to Colombian military bases.

Prosecutors say a lone gunman approached Gustavo Gonzalez, a member of the Copei opposition party, a4 a restaurant, fatall9 shot the politician in the head and fled on a motorcycle driven b9 an accomplice.

Undermine our allies. Embolden our enemies. Diminish our country. If anyone doubted those nine words summed up the Obama Doctrine, look at what the president's team perpetrated last week in Honduras.

A A A' In a private, low-key ceremony, the U.S. ambassador and three Colombian ministers on Friday signed a pact to expand Washington's military's presence, a deal that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has called a threat to the region's security.

A man has been charged with allegedly threatening to kill Miley Cyrus on the set of her latest movie "The Last Song," on the same day another obsessed fan had felony charges of attempted stalking dropped.

Horrified by the excesses of dictatorship, Latin Americans discarded the strongman model at the end of the 20th century and limited politicians' time in power.

Venezuelan authorities are investigating the shooting death of an opponent of President Hugo Chavez.

With Iran still refusing to play ball with the West over its nuclear program, lawmakers are turning up the heat by targeting oil companies that import gasoline to Iran.

Venezuela and Argentina on Wednesday hailed condemnation by the United Nations General Assembly of the U.S. embargo against Cuba.

TEGUCIGALPA: The front-runner in Honduras' presidential race has become a key to resolving a four-month conflict between a president ousted in a coup and the de facto leader who replaced him.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his visiting Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed 15 cooperation agreements Friday during a trimestral meeting in Venezuela's Anzoategui state.