http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Americas AP 60 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:03:37 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/665182.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/665182.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:36 EDT The San Juan Star, Puerto Rico's Pulitzer Prize-winning English-language newspaper, closed Friday, the owner said, blaming the union for not agreeing to benefit cuts and layoffs to offset declining revenue. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664903.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664903.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:26 EDT Brazil will spend US$160 million by the end of next year on the development of a nuclear-propelled submarine to protect the oil reserves found recently off its coast, the defense minister said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664566.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664566.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:15 EDT A 3-year-old U.S. girl kidnapped in Guatemala was freed on Thursday after police raided the home where she was being held and killed five suspects in a gunbattle, authorities said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664567.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:15 EDT Bolivian President Evo Morales scheduled a national referendum on a hotly disputed new constitution allowing presidential re-election and aiming to empower a long-marginalized indigenous majority. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664549.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664549.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:02 EDT A gang leader accused of orchestrating two village massacres that left 23 people dead was killed in a shootout after authorities raided one of his hideouts, police said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664548.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664548.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:02 EDT President Fernando Lugo has apologized on behalf of Paraguay to victims of the 1954-1989 dictatorship of the late Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664508.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664508.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:43 EDT Bolivia's leftist president is heading for Libya and Iran to strengthen ties with the two oil powers from Africa and the Middle East. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664360.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/664360.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:57 EDT Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday and moved through the Cayman Islands, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/663037.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/663037.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:04 EDT An Argentine court convicted two former generals on Thursday for the murder of a senator during the country's seven-year military dictatorship and sentenced them to life in prison. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/662451.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/662451.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:00 EDT Deadly Gustav drenched Jamaica and menaced the Cayman Islands on Friday, and on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, forecasters said for the first time there's a better-than-even chance that New Orleans will get slammed by tropical storm-force winds. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/662562.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/662562.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:42 EDT More than 200 oil-slicked penguins have washed up dead on the beaches of a popular Brazilian resort, and officials say they are searching for a cause. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/662227.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/662227.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:40 EDT Brazil is considering a "significant increase" in defense spending to help the fast-growing power guard its seas and forest borders from unspecified threats, the country's strategic affairs minister said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/660632.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/660632.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:22 EDT Tropical Storm Gustav surged toward hurricane force on Thursday as it drove toward Jamaica and aimed for the Cayman islands, prompting evacuations of tourists and offshore oil workers. In its wake, impoverished Haitians scrambled for food. Meanwhile, New Orleans kept nervous watch, three years after Katrina's destruction. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/661766.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/661766.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:32 EDT A federal judge on Wednesday ordered election officials to add an English translation to Spanish-only ballots for November elections. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/661376.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/661376.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:28 EDT Cuba has ordered jailed punk rocker Gorki Aguila, an outspoken critic of Fidel Castro and the communist government, to stand trial on Friday for "social dangerousness," a charge that could carry up to four years in prison. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/661155.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/661155.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:26 EDT Argentina will meet all its debt obligations in 2008 and 2009, its Cabinet chief said Wednesday, addressing investor concerns that political tensions could reduce its budget surplus and slow its debt payments. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/660832.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/660832.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:18 EDT Mexico's Supreme Court was poised Wednesday to uphold legal abortion in the capital despite deep opposition elsewhere in the heavily Catholic country. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/660197.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/660197.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:11 EDT Lawmakers loyal to President Hugo Chavez want to allow the nationalization of fuel distribution, the government's latest move to bring Venezuela's economy under increased state control. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/658659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/658659.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:33 EDT Hurricane Gustav triggered flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people before weakening to a tropical storm, but forecasters said Wednesday it's still a major threat to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/659590.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/AP/story/659590.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:32 EDT The Japanese firm Modec said Tuesday that it won a contract with Petrobras to build a floating production and storage facility that will drill for oil off the coast of Brazil in the nation's giant Tupi field.