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World News / South America6/22/2011 14:49Officials: Brutal Mexican drug gang weakened
A cult-like drug cartel that challenged a rival gang by rolling severed heads onto a disco dance floor in western Mexico was so divided and cash-strapped of late that it had sought to form an alliance with its former enemy2
World News / South America6/14/2011 17:39Mexican gaming tycoon cleared of weapons charges
A federal judge dismissed weapons charges against a flamboyant gambling magnate-turned-politician on Tuesday3
World News / South America4/26/2011 21:40Venezuela oil tax to net billions before Chavez vote
New Venezuelan taxes on windfall oil revenue will let socialist President Hugo Chavez boost spending on popular social programs by billions of dollars ahead of his re-election bid next year.4
World News / South America3/27/2011 21:44Leftist former soldier rises in Peru election poll
A left-leaning former army officer has risen quickly into contention for Peru's presidency and may even be leading the tight five-person race for the first-round vote on April 10, according to a poll released Sunday.5
World News / South America1/17/2011 22:54Troops building bridges in Brazil slide zone
Brazil's army on Monday sent 700 soldiers to help throw a lifeline to desperate neighborhoods that have been cut off from food, water or help in recovering bodies since mudslides killed at least 665 people.6
World News / South America1/16/2011 00:35Brazil slide survivors left to fend on own
Pointing at the cliff of crumbling red clay, Renato Motta de Lima described a landscape that now existed only in memory.7
World News / South America1/15/2011 00:43Help in short supply after deadly Brazil mudslides
Fernando Perfista dug out the body of his eldest child from the mud, then searched for the 12-year-old's three siblings. He sheltered the boy's remains in a refrigerator to keep dogs at bay.8
World News / South America1/13/2011 21:50476 die in Brazil slides, survivors relate horrors
The power was out, but lightning flashes illuminated the horror as villagers watched neighbors' homes vanish under a wall of mud and water, turning neighborhoods into graveyards.9
World News / South America12/6/2010 21:5823 bodies recovered in Colombian landslide
Rescue workers recovered 23 bodies but said more than 100 people remained missing and feared dead Monday following a landslide that buried a poor Medellin suburb amid Colombia's heaviest rains in decades.10
World News / South America12/5/2010 22:25Landslide in northwestern Colombia buries 50 homes
A landslide following weeks of drenching rains buried more than 50 homes in northwestern Colombia, killing at least two people and likely leaving dozens trapped beneath mud and rubble, officials said Sunday.