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Mexican Left Calls on Obama to Stop Deportations
February 9, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Mexico's left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, called on U.S. President Barack Obama's administration to halt raids and deportations while an immigration overhaul plan that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented migrants "is debated and approved." continue reading »
Employees of Mexican Newspaper Briefly Kidnapped, All Returned Safely
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A criminal group kidnapped five workers at Mexican daily El Siglo de Torreon and held them for several hours, a spokesman for the northern state of Coahuila's Attorney General's Office told Efe. continue reading »
Rio Carnival Kicks off in Brazil
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Mayor Eduardo Paes presented the keys to Brazil's second-largest city on Friday to King Momo, the traditional sovereign of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival. continue reading »
Group of Brazilians Take a Stand Against Effort to “Privatize” Rio Carnival
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A group of Rio de Janeiro street troupes are crying foul over the numerous multi-million-dollar contracts with carnival sponsors and municipal authorities' growing control over the festivities. continue reading »
Fake Mexican Journalists Appeal Drug Convictions in Nicaragua
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Appeals have been filed by attorneys representing 18 Mexicans who posed as Televisa journalists and were convicted on drug charges in Nicaragua, judicial officials said Thursday. continue reading »
American Woman Stabbed 40 Times in San Miguel de Allende, Daughter Implicated
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A 59-year-old American woman was found dead of multiple stab wounds inside her home in San Miguel de Allende, a city in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, the Correo newspaper said on its Web site. continue reading »
Leader of Cuban Dissident Group, Berta Soler, Obtains Passport
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The leader of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White was issued a passport Friday and said she hopes to travel outside the country for the first time next month. continue reading »
MEXICO: President Vows to Solve Spanish Tourist Rape Case
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Thursday that "every institutional support" will be provided to the effort to track down those responsible for the rapes of six Spanish tourists this we continue reading »
Mexico Screening Horses for Virus at Belize Border
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Inspections of horses are being stepped up along Mexico's border with Belize to prevent animals infected with equine encephalitis from entering the country, the Agriculture Secretariat said. continue reading »
Latin America News: Colombian Government Suspends 4G Broadband Auction
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombia's government has suspended a scheduled auction of 4G mobile broadband service after learning about a potential merger deal involving two of the participants, Information Technologies and Communications Minister Diego Molano said. continue reading »
Latin America Entices International Wind Power Industry
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Wind power has tremendous potential for growth in Latin America, where demand for renewable energy is high in Central America and the Caribbean, while Mexico has a favorable political environment for the industry, the Mexico manager for Danish wind power company Vestas, Adrian Katzew, told Efe. continue reading »
Police Question 8 in Connection with Tourist Rapes in Acapulco
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Investigators have questioned eight people in connection with the rapes of six Spanish tourists earlier this week outside the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco, a police commander said. continue reading »
Ex-Guatemalan Dictator Gen. Efrain Rio Montt Genocide Trial Set for August
February 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The trial of former strongman Gen. Efrain Rios Montt and one of his closest collaborators for genocide and crimes against humanity will begin Aug. 13, a Guatemalan court announced Thursday. continue reading »
Weapons Including Grenades Found at Venezuela Prison Where Deadly Riot Occurs
February 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Venezuelan government announced on Thursday that authorities confiscated 106 firearms, including rifles and submachine guns, ammunition and grenades, along with assorted illegal drugs, at the Uribana prison, where on Jan. 25 a riot by inmates resulted in the deaths of 58 people. continue reading »
Latin America News: Mexico’s Telmex Faces $52 Million Fine for Monopolistic Practices
February 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Fixed-line giant Telmex faces a fine of 657 million pesos (some $52 million) for monopolistic practices, Mexico's Federal Competition Commission, or CFC, said Thursday. continue reading »
Nissan to Invest $220 Million in New Auto Plant in Mexico, 1,200 New Jobs to Be Created
February 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Jatco, a unit of Japanese automaker Nissan, said it planned to build a $220 million plant in western Mexico to manufacture 400,000 automobile transmissions annually. continue reading »
Mexican Authorities Investigate Whether Homophobia Played a Role in Murder
February 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Investigators are looking at homophobia as a possible motive in the slaying of a young man whose body was found in Puebla, a state in central Mexico, prosecutors said. continue reading »
Chilean Telescope Captures Seagull Nebula
February 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The MPG/ESO telescope at the La Silla Observatory in northern Chile has captured a new image of the wings of a "cosmic seagull," the European Southern Observatory announced Wednesday. continue reading »
Latin America New: Spanish Investment in Region is “Secure”
February 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Spanish investment in Latin America "is secure" and is producing good results, Spain's secretary of state for International Cooperation and Ibero-America said here Wednesday. continue reading »
Colombian Army Investigates Car Bombs that Killed 2, Wounded 2
February 7, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombia's army said two car bombs - not one, as was initially reported - were used in attacks in the conflict-ridden province of Cauca that left two dead and two others wounded. continue reading »
