A Mexican journalist who was also a former local official was shot dead Tuesday in the country's central Puebla region, authorities said. Marco Aurelio Ramirez, 69, was killed in broad daylight as he ...

Three justices on Brazil's Supreme Court have voted against allowing state-owned oil company Petrobras to go ahead with the planned sale of eight refineries, according to the court's website.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, hospitalized in Cuba with cancer, will be unable to be sworn in to another term Thursday, his vice president said Tuesday. Brazil said it would not intervene in the ...