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Union Calls Upon Pemex to Give Jobs to Children of Dead Victims of Blast
February 6, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The children of the employees killed in the explosion last week at the Mexico City headquarters of state-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, should be allowed to inherit their parent's jobs, oil workers union leader Carlos Romero Deschamps said. continue reading »
Mexican Authorities Have Line On Suspects Who Raped Spanish Tourists in Acapulco
February 6, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Authorities have "firm signs to find those responsible" for the rape of six Spanish tourists on the outskirts of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, the attorney general of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero said Tuesday. continue reading »
Mexican Government Denies U.S. Vetoed Defense Secretary Appointment
February 6, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The United States did not veto the appointment of Gen. Moises Garcia Ochoa as defense secretary, the Mexican government said. continue reading »
Protest in Mexico to Keep PEMEX Private In Spite of Shoddy Safety Record
February 6, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A series of peaceful protests will be held across Mexico in defense of state-owned oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, and against a supposed plan to turn the firm over to foreign oil companies, former leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said. continue reading »
Latin America News: Two Killed in Car Bombing in Colombia
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
At least two people died and three others were wounded Tuesday when a car bomb exploded in a rural part of the strife-torn Colombian province of Cauca, authorities told Efe. continue reading »
Another Death Attributed to Brazil Deadly Nightclub Fire, Death Toll Now at 238
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The number of fatalities from the discotheque fire in the southern Brazilian city of Santa Maria rose to 238 with the death in hospital of a 20-year-old man, authorities said. continue reading »
Shining Path Leader Tied to Narco Trafficking
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The last of Peru's original Shining Path guerrilla leaders had ties to drug traffickers and ordered the murders of a family that failed to make payments to the group, a witness told a Lima court, judicial officials said. continue reading »
Latin America News: Bolivia Bus Crash Leaves 7 Dead, 23 Injured
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Seven people died and 23 were injured Tuesday when a bus overturned on a road in southwestern Bolivia, police said. continue reading »
Bolivia Unveils World’s Largest Virgin Mary Statue
February 5, 2013 | by Catholic News Agency | Latino Daily News
The largest statue of the Virgin Mary in the world, dedicated to Our Lady of Socavon, was inaugurated at a Feb. 1 ceremony in the city of Oruro, Bolivia. continue reading »
Ecuador Presidential Campaign Suspended After 2 Die, 4 Wounded at Political Rally
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa's MAP party announced Tuesday that it is suspending the campaign for the Feb. 17 election after two people were killed and four others wounded in an attack on a rally where the head of state was due to speak. continue reading »
Latin America News: Brazil’s Petrobras Profit Decline 36 Percent
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
State-controlled oil giant Petrobras said it posted net income of 21.18 billion reais ($10.61 billion) in 2012, down 36 percent from the prior year. continue reading »
Brazilian Bus Attack Continue, Latest Set on Fire
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A bus was set on fire Monday morning by armed men and another was shot at in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, which has been experiencing a wave of violent attacks in recent days, police said. continue reading »
German National Sentenced to 4 Years in Ecuador For Stealing Galapagos Iguanas
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A court handed down a four-year prison term to a German citizen caught trying to smuggle four iguanas out of the Galapagos islands, the directors of Ecuador's Galapagos National Park said. continue reading »
French Spiderman Alain Robert Scales Habana Libre Hotel, Tallest Building in Cuba
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Alain Robert, known as the French spiderman, once again defied the danger of the heights by scaling the front of the Cuban capital's iconic Habana Libre Hotel, one of the tallest buildings on the island. continue reading »
PEMEX Blast Likely Caused by Accumulation of Gas, No Trace of Explosives Found
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The explosion that killed 37 people and injured more than 100 others last week at the Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, headquarters in Mexico City was caused by an accumulation of gas, officials said. continue reading »
Latin America News: Ecuador Seizes Peru Fishing Vessels for Border Violations
February 5, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Ecuadorian navy last week intercepted four Peruvian boats with 10 citizens of that nation aboard that were fishing in its territorial waters, the National Directorate of Aquatic Areas, or Dirnea, announced Monday. continue reading »
Son of Venezuelan Opposition Leader, Alejandro Fermin, Murdered
February 4, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Venezuela's interior minister said Monday that he ordered the director of the CICPC investigative police to personally take charge of the probe into the murder of the son of prominent opposition figure Claudio Fermin. continue reading »
Water Rates Expected to Rise by 40 Percent in Puerto Rico
February 4, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
An increase in water rates set to take effect this summer in Puerto Rico could be as much 40 percent, the president of state-owned utility AAA said Monday. continue reading »
Brazilian Mogul Antonio Ermirio de Moraes Relative and 4 Others Killed in Plane Crash
February 4, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Five people, including a grandnephew of businessman Antonio Ermirio de Moraes, were killed when a small plane crashed in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, emergency services officials said Monday. continue reading »
Death Toll from Deadly Brazil Fire Continues to Rise
February 4, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The death toll from the fire last month at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, a city in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state, has risen to 237, health officials said. continue reading »
