- Mexico's electoral agency fines boxer over logo (AP)
AP - Mexico's election commission says its members have unanimously voted to fine a Mexican boxer for wearing a political party's emblem during a match broadcast last year. - Haiti police: 1 dead, 120 injured in Carnival fete (AP)
AP - A police spokesman in Haiti says one person has been killed and 120 others revelers have been injured in accidents and in street clashes during Carnival festivities. - Chavez surgery throws Venezuela into uncertainty (AP)
AP - President Hugo Chavez has never been one to share decision-making authority. Now, the voluble socialist strongman and acerbic critic of the U.S. may have no choice but to designate a successor.
- Argentine commuter train crashes, killing 49 people (Reuters)
Reuters - A packed commuter train crashed at a Buenos Aires station during Wednesday's morning rush hour, killing 49 people and injuring more than 600 in Argentina's worst rail disaster in three decades.
- Argentine train slams into station, killing 49 (AP)
AP - The first two cars were packed as usual for the morning rush, so tightly that people stood pressed flesh to flesh, sandwiched between bicycles and the few seats, many without so much as a strap to hold onto. - EU report says Nicaragua vote lacked transparency (AP)
AP - A European Union observer team says there were irregularities in Nicaragua's presidential elections in November. - Chavez surgery rocks Venezuela ahead of election (Reuters)
Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist leader's passionate supporters.
- Inmates start fire inside Mexico prison (AP)
AP - Inmates set fire to mattresses and trash Tuesday after officials announced that three prisoners would be moved from the prison where 44 gangs members were massacred this week to a maximum security jail in western Mexico. - US team says Honduras prison fire was an accident (AP)
AP - U.S. investigators concluded Tuesday that the deadliest prison fire in a century was accidental, and may have been caused by a lit match, cigarette or some other open flame.
- Jamaica gang feuds driving rise in murder rate (AP)
AP - Jamaica is developing a new policy to battle crime as gang violence drives the homicide rate higher, the country's top security official said Tuesday. - Cuban videos warn communists off corruption (Reuters)
Reuters - Cuban President Raul Castro's full-court press on corruption has gone the local equivalent of viral, as videos with bribery confessions by foreign and Cuban businessmen make the rounds of the communist-run island's state companies. - Wolf reintroduction in Mexico off to rocky start (AP)
AP - The reintroduction of Mexican gray wolves to a mountain range just south of the U.S.-Mexico border as part of an effort to re-establish the endangered species is off to a rocky start. - Chile says Peru border to reopen by late Wednesday (AP)
AP - Chile's government says it will reopen the border with Peru by Wednesday night, following heavy rains that displaced land mines and floated some onto the Pan-American Highway. - Guatemala judge steps down in ex-dictator's case (AP)
AP - A Guatemalan judge overseeing the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt stepped down Tuesday, accepting a defense request.
- Investigators say prison fire likely caused by cigarette (Reuters)
Reuters - A devastating prison fire that killed 360 inmates in a Honduran penitentiary was likely caused by a candle or cigarette that set a mattress alight, investigators said on Tuesday. - BWI charter flights to Cuba postponed until fall (AP)
AP - Anyone hoping to catch a flight to Cuba next month from Baltimore's airport will have to wait until the fall. - US seeks half off ex-Haitian drug lord sentence (AP)
AP - A once-powerful Haitian drug lord imprisoned in the U.S. deserves half off his 27-year sentence because he provided key assistance in the convictions of at least a dozen other corrupt officials from his country and high-level cocaine traffickers, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday. - Inmate massacre highlights Mexico jail corruption (AP)
AP - Nine guards have confessed to helping Zetas drug gangsters escape from prison before other Zetas slaughtered 44 rival inmates, a state official said late Monday, underlining the enormous corruption inside Mexico's overcrowded, underfunded prisons.
- US, Mexico agree to cooperate on energy (AP)
AP - The United States and Mexico agreed Monday to work together when drilling for oil and gas below their maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Mexican prez sister accused by former ruling party (AP)
AP - The sister of Mexican President Felipe Calderon was hit with accusations of possible corrupt practices Monday
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