US-Venezuelan citizen Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson was paid to testify that a cash-stuffed suitcase he smuggled into Argentina from Venezuela was for the successful presidential campaign of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, alleged a top Argentine Cabinet minister.
Uruguayan peace keeping forces are under instructions from United Nations to protect the Congolese city of Goma, which is threatened by advancing rebels led by Laurent Nkunda, according to statements from Alain Le Roy, head of UN peace keeping operations.
The campaign for the re-election of Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez has triggered a controversy inside the ruling coalition with, for the first time, a serious public exchange between the leader and a member of Congress.
Ramifications of the suitcase scandal involving Venezuela, Argentina and a Miami federal court have reached Uruguay, where a local judge has requested information from the Central Bank on accounts from some of the characters named in the trial.
Mexico's Home Secretary and other top officials have been killed after the small jet they travelling in went down in the centre of Mexico City. The first reports from the Mexican government currently in a full war against the drug barons, said there were no indications, so far, of a terrorist attack.
Leaders across Latinamerica Wednesday welcomed the election of Barack Obama as the president of the United States and prospects of better relations with Washington.
Kenya has declared Thursday a public holiday to celebrate the election of Barack Obama to the US presidency. Mr Obama's father was from Kenya and his victory has prompted jubilation across the country.
Two Spanish men appeared in the Falkland Islands court on Monday morning in connection with Thursday's seizure of one million pounds worth of cocaine from the fishing vessel 'Venturer', reported the Islands radio station.
A United States federal court in Miami has found a Venezuelan businessman guilty of acting as an illegal foreign agent in US territory to cover up a political scandal involving Argentina.
Taiwan and China held their first high-level talks in Taipei in 60 years on Tuesday, with communications, transport and food safety high in the agenda.