Posts Tagged Latin America and Caribbean

Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies

Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes greets the audience during a conference of Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa in Mexico City, Thursday, March 3, 2011.In this Thursday, March 3, 2011.file photo, Mexican author Carlos Fuentes greets the audience during a conference of Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa in Mexico City. Fuentes, Mexico's most celebrated novelist and among Latin America's most prominent authors, died on May 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83.

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Chandler turns down US for World Cup qualifiers

CHICAGO (AP) — Defender Timmy Chandler has declined an invitation to attend the United States’ training camp ahead of its opening qualifiers next month for the 2014 World Cup.

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Column: Olympic first, a home from home in London

Memorabilia marking Britain's Queen Elizabeth II's upcoming Diamond Jubilee celebrations decorate a shops front window as people walk in a shopping center in east London, Monday, May, 14, 2012. In 116 years of globe-trotting, the Olympic Games have landed in 22 cities, including London in 1908 and '48. But never have they visited a city so global and so globally connected as the cultural, linguistic, culinary and human soup that 21st century London has become. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

LONDON (AP) — Excited, likely jet-lagged, bursting with ambition and surely a little nervous, too, the thousands of Olympians speaking a multitude of tongues will find and settle into their rooms at London’s new, purpose-built Olympic Village this July. And, in what is now Olympic tradition, they will celebrate their presence by draping their nations’ flags from the windows and balconies.

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Monday, May 14, 2012

AP-CNBC Poll: Half of Americans say Facebook appeal will fade, IPO shares overpriced

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Monday, May 14, 2012

Obama campaign says Romney’s record at Bain offers window into how he’d run the country

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