CARACAS (Reuters) - A blackout cut power to much of Venezuela on Friday afternoon, snarling traffic in the capital Caracas and other major cities and interrupting a televised speech by the president in the country's second nationwide electricity outage in a year.
BUENOS AIRES/CARACAS (Reuters) - Some of Latin America's most prominent leftists are accusing football's world governing body FIFA of banning star striker Luis Suarez as a ploy to sideline his Uruguayan team from a World Cup brimming with Latin flavour and European flops.
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's President Ollanta Humala reappointed his finance minister in a major cabinet reshuffle late on Monday that also replaced the mines minister and made the current housing minister his fifth prime minister.
LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's finance and mines ministers presented their resignations to President Ollanta Humala following a cabinet spat over the minimum wage that has already pushed the prime minister from power, sources told Reuters on Monday.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party and allies took 10 percentage points more votes than opposition rivals in Sunday's election for mayors that was a test of strength for President Nicolas Maduro, final results showed on Friday.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Slum dweller Juan Carlos Villamizar bid farewell to Hugo Chavez on Friday, crediting the late Venezuelan leader with saving his life in the same poor district where Chavez saw the birth of his own political rise.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's Hugo Chavez will be embalmed and put on display
CARACAS (Reuters) - Saluting, clenching fists and making the Roman Catholic sign of the cross over Hugo Chavez's casket, Venezuelans crowded on Thursday to see their deceased leader one last time and pledge that his socialist revolution will not die.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Saluting, clenching fists and making the Catholic sign of the cross over his open casket, Venezuelans flocked on Thursday to see their deceased leader one last time and pledge that his socialist revolution will not die.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Grieving and stunned supporters of deceased Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took to the streets on Tuesday weeping, chanting slogans and vowing to continue their hero's revolution.