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Fidel Castro warns of bleak future, touts memoir
(Reuters)
Reuters - Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its worst situation ever as Cuban television aired on Monday part of a six-hour event last week touting his newest memoir.
Top Colombian warlord arrested in Venezuela
(AP)
AP - Venezuela says it has arrested on murder and drug trafficking charges the last major Colombian far-right paramilitary warlord still at large.
Candidacy tests Mexico's culture of machismo
(AP)
 AP - Mexico's conservative ruling party is gambling that this country known for machismo is ready for a female president and have chosen a devout Roman Catholic and popular former congresswoman who says she sympathizes with the causes of the poor.
Panama Indians seek release of detained protesters
(AP)
 AP - Indigenous groups in Panama are demanding the release of anti-mining protesters detained when police used tear gas to clear blockades of the Pan-American highway.
Suspected kidnappers of Mexican diplomat arrested
(AP)
AP - Police have arrested two men and a woman suspected of participating in last week's kidnapping of Mexico's ambassador to Venezuela and his wife.
At least 18 dead in shipwreck off Dominican Republic
(Reuters)
Reuters - Dominican officials were investigating the capsizing of an overloaded immigrant smuggling boat that killed 18 people and rescue teams were searching on Monday for 20 or more people missing off the Dominican Republic coast, authorities said.
Ex Panama dictator Noriega 'stable' in hospital
(AP)
 AP - Doctors in Panama say former dictator Manuel Noriega is "stable" after being hospitalized for extreme hypertension.
Peru's giant jungle fish hooks conscientious gourmets
(Reuters)
Reuters - Move over Chilean sea bass, Peruvians are raising a giant Amazon fish and sending it abroad to answer growing cries for sustainable seafood in haute cuisine.
Mexico conservatives back woman presidential candidate
(Reuters)
Reuters - Voters from Mexico's ruling conservative party selected their first woman presidential candidate on Sunday, choosing a former education minister to battle the opposition's nominee, who has a big lead in the polls.
17 dead, 13 rescued after migrant boat capsizes
(AP)
 AP - Rescuers scouring the white-capped waters off the Dominican Republic's coast have found 17 bodies and 13 survivors from a boat overloaded with migrants that capsized almost two days ago, officials said.
Ex-Panama strongman Noriega hospitalized, stable
(Reuters)
Reuters - Manuel Noriega, Panama's drug-running military dictator of the 1980s, was taken from prison to a public hospital on Sunday after suffering a possible stroke, but a top health official said he was stable.
Opposition angered as Chavez celebrates coup
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mounted a lavish celebration on Saturday to mark the 20th anniversary of the failed coup that helped launch his political career, as opposition leaders slammed the event as a blemish on the country's democracy.
Chavez and allies back Argentina on Falklands
(AP)
 AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leaders in the left-leaning ALBA bloc backed Argentina on Saturday in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
Chavez: Iran sanctions hurt joint auto venture
(AP)
AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that international sanctions on Iran are impeding some of his country's business deals with Tehran.
Argentines seek peaceful resolution in Falklands
(AP)
 AP - London's tabloids and British leaders are depicting Argentina as dangerous and belligerent 30 years after its invasion of the Falkland Islands. Argentines say Britain should consider its own history of waging war around the globe, and acknowledge that the islands and seas around them rightfully belong to Argentina.
"Iron Lady" film draws sympathy for Thatcher in Argentina
(Reuters)
Reuters - Long reviled in Argentina for leading Britain to war over the Falkland Islands, Margaret Thatcher's portrayal as a vulnerable, elderly woman suffering from dementia in new film "The Iron Lady" has won her newfound sympathy with Argentine moviegoers.
Mexican aid lags for starving Tarahumara Indians
(AP)
 AP - It's been months since Maria Luisa Gonzalez and her husband have been able to harvest anything from their drought-parched land or catch fish in a lake that's become little more than a muddy puddle.
Chavez celebrates 20th anniversary of coup attempt
(AP)
 AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrated the 20th anniversary of the failed coup attempt that launched his political career on Saturday, presiding over a military parade while fighter jets and helicopters roared overhead.
5 norteno musicians, 4 others killed in Mexico
(AP)
 AP - Mexican authorities say a masked man opened fire against a band playing popular norteno music in a Chihuahua city dance hall, killing five musicians, four customers and injuring 10 others.
Fidel Castro presents 2-volume memoir
(AP)
 AP - Fidel Castro spent six hours presenting a two-volume memoir to an audience at a Havana convention center, state media said Saturday. It was a rare appearance for the retired and increasingly reclusive former Cuban leader.
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