Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

Nestor Kirchner, the former president of Argentina and husband of the current president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has died suddenly of a heart attack. Kirchner was rushed to a hospital in the city of El Calafate with his wife at his side, and was...

Thousands of people filled the Plaza de Mayo as they lined up to pay their respects to former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, whose body lay in state at the presidential palace Thursday, one day after his death from an apparent heart attack. Some...

Brazilians partied on the beaches of Rio and Brazilian stocks rose with anticipation Monday morning as results from Sunday's runoff election confirmed Dilma Rousseff as the South American nation's first female president. Rousseff, who has never held...

Argentines lined the rainy streets of Buenos Aires on Friday to honor former President Nestor Kirchner as the black hearse carrying his remains made its way through the city. The funeral procession traveled to Jorge Newbery airport, where an honor guard...

A secret U.S. diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks reveals requests by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on the mental health and decision-making style of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The cable bearing Clinton's name...

The global fall-out over the leaked U.S. diplomatic cables continues to trickle into Latin America, where leaders are responding to a variety of disclosures that reveal frank opinions on governments with whom the United States has sometimes had tense...

Former President Nestor Kirchner, the husband of Argentina's current leader and a frequently mentioned possible candidate to succeed her, died unexpectedly Wednesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 60. Kirchner, who guided the country from 2003 to...

Today's One-Line News Briefs Guatemala City — Guatemalan lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, who accused President Alvaro Colom of his slaying in a video made before Rosenberg’s death May 10, actually contracted hit men for his own slaying, U.N. investigators...

The DNA testing of children adopted during the dirty war period is an effort to find closure for surviving victims of the military junta responsible for as many as 30,000 deaths between 1976 and 1983. But the Herrera family says their proceedings have...

The law allows gay married gay couples to adopt children and inherit wealth. With its passage, Argentina joins only the Mexican Federal District (or Mexico City) in Latin America allowing same-sex marriage, in addition to the region's former colonial...

A British oil rig began drilling near the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic on Monday, an area Argentina considers its territorial waters. Argentina claims sovereignty over the islands, as well as the surrounding waters where Britain's Desire...

The tiny club of female presidents in Latin America will grow by one with the election in Costa Rica of Laura Chinchilla. She won the presidency in a landslide victory Sunday and takes office May 8. The socially conservative, pro-business former vice...