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A USGS map highlighting seismic hazards in Peru

Photo: USGS

Earthquake Strikes Peruvian Coast

Survey says quake happened Monday shortly after midnight local time, 280 kilometers south-southeast of Lima

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Death Toll Rises to 17 in Brazil Buildings Collapse

Officials say rescue workers pulled more bodies from rubble Saturday, three days after office buildings collapsed in Rio de Janeiro

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas (file - January 17, 2012).

Chavez Hopes for Better Relationship With US

Venezuelan president says he hopes if President Barack Obama is re-elected two leaders can shake hands and have 'a great relationship'

Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt speaks with the media after a judge placed him under house arrest, at the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City January 26, 2012.

Guatemala to Try Ex-Dictator for Genocide

Judge rules Efrain Rios Montt should answer charges or responsibility for mass killing of indigenous people during civil war

Christ the Redeemer statue overlooks Rio de Janeiro, 2007 (file photo).

5 Dead in Brazil Buildings Collapse

Brazilian rescue workers continue their search for people who may be trapped in rubble in downtown Rio de Janeiro

Chef Gilberto Cetina Jr. and coauthor Katharine Diaz look at their new cookbook called Sabores Yucatecos, or Yucatan Flavors

US Immigrant Restaurateurs Share Dishes of Mexican State

The Cetinas share their family recipes in a cookbook, 'Sabores Yucatecos,' or Yucatan Flavors. The book is coauthored with Katharine Dia

A Haitian woman waiting for a taxi in Port-au-Prince looks at earthquake damage on January 9, 2012. According to the UN some 50 percent of the rubble left by the January 12, 2010 earthquake still litters the Haitian capital.

Haiti Warned to Expect More Major Earthquakes

Experts say 2010 earthquake may be start of a new period of strong seismic activity

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega greets supporters at the swearing-in ceremony for his second term as president at the Revolution Square in Managua, Nicaragua, January 10, 2012.

Irregularities in Nicaragua Election Prompt US Aid Review

US Secretary of State Clinton says November 6 re-election of President Ortega was 'setback to democracy,' had major irregularities

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (file - Nov.3, 2011).

Argentine President Returning to Work After Thyroid Surgery

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to return to work Wednesday following a cancer scare

Ramona Rivero, of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White, places flowers in a vase near a condolence book for the late dissident Wilman Villar in Havana, Cuba, Friday Jan. 20, 2012.

Cuban Prisoner Dies After Hunger Strike

Activists say jailed dissident Wilman Villar Mendoza, 31, died following seven-week-long hunger strike

Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., speaks with reporters in Washington. (File Photo)

US Senator Seeks Release of American Jailed in Cuba

Dick Durbin will talk with Cuban officials to gain of release of USAID contractor Alan Gross

Peru's Vice President and Congressman Omar Chehade resigns, (File).

Peruvian Vice President Resigns

Resignation of Omar Chehade came ahead of a vote on recommending moving forward with impeachment proceedings against him

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