Latin America

• Saturday, April 7th 2012 - 07:12 UTC

  Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter mass

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass in the eve of Good Friday after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba.

• Saturday, April 7th 2012 - 06:59 UTC

  Churches in Cuba celebrate Easter for the first time in over half a century

  

  Bells rang from Roman Catholic churches throughout Havana on Friday to remember the death of Jesus Christ as Cubans celebrated a holiday on Good Friday for the first time in more than half a century.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:57 UTC

  Furious Chile demands an apology from Argentina’s former military governor of the Falklands

  

  The Chilean political system reacted angrily and demanded official apologies from the Argentine government following statements from former General Mario Menendez who said “Chileans behaved as pigs during the Malvinas war” three decades ago.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 22:51 UTC

  “We were prepared for war with Chile”, not in Malvinas admits former Argentine military governor

  

  The former military governor of the Malvinas Islands during the Argentine occupation said that the negative outcome of the war for Argentina can only be attributed to “negligence and improvisation”.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:54 UTC

  Colombia “rolls up to show a leg” to honour thousands of anti-personnel mines victims

  

  Colombia, only second to Afghanistan as to the country most punished by antipersonnel mines held several ceremonies on Wednesday to remember and honour its 9.755 victims of which 2.044 have died.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 15:52 UTC

  Hundreds of dead dolphins in Peruvian beaches; offshore acoustic testing leading suspect

  

  Conservationists counted 615 dead dolphins along a 150 kilometer stretch of beaches in Peru, a wildlife group said Wednesday, and the leading suspect is acoustic testing offshore by oil companies.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:45 UTC

  Green light for huge controversial hydroelectric project in Chilean Patagonia

  

  Chile's Supreme Court Wednesday removed the last legal obstacle to building a giant 2.9 billion dollars hydroelectric complex in the Patagonian wilderness, rejecting a bid by environmentalists to block it.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 14:29 UTC

  Memorandum for Lady Thatcher on Chile’s support during Falklands’ conflict

  

  It is a well known and admitted fact that the Chilean regime of General Augusto Pinochet provided very useful intelligence to the British effort to recover the occupied Falkland Islands in 1982.

• Wednesday, April 4th 2012 - 08:37 UTC

  Colombian president calls on FARC to free the estimated 400 civilian hostages

  

  Ten government hostages (four soldiers and six policemen) held by a rebel group in Colombia for more than a decade were freed on Monday with great expectations but also skepticism because it is believed the same organization still has 400 civilian hostages.

• Tuesday, April 3rd 2012 - 22:28 UTC

  Ecuador will not attend Americas summit in solidarity with Cuba’s exclusion

  

  Ecuador's President Rafael Correa confirmed he will not attend this month's Summit of the Americas in Colombia, nor any other gathering that excludes Cuba or fails to address what he calls the region's most pressing issues.