SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Marc Anthony, Juan Luis Guerra, Wisin & Yandel sang with them on a recent tour.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Brazil will welcome about 600,000 tourists for the World Cup in 2014, which also will create 330,000 jobs, according to Alcino Rocha, the ministry of sport's special assessor of soccer.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentine oil company YPF plans to import 50 million liters (13.2 million gallons) of gasoline because the nation's demand can't keep up with its supply,

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - With its 21.4 million planted hectares (52.87 million acres), Brazil is the world's second-largest transgenic producer behind the United States,

SANTIAGO, Chile - Sebastián Piñera's presidency began in a similar manner as outgoing President Michelle Bachelet's term ended: with the earth shaking.

Panama City, Panama – After just 6 months , Mercatrade.com becomes the largest and most successful regional trade portal helping companies all over the world do business with Latin America.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - Rice, one of the main ingredients in Brazilians' daily diet, will be used for yet another purpose - to make electronic microchips.

WASHINGTON D.C., U.S.A. - Argentine director Juan José Campanella still can't believe it.
But it's not fiction.
His "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" ("The Secret in Their Eyes") won the Academy Award for best foreign language film.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - She's been the Dominican Republic's little girl for a while, even before the successful movie Avatar or now, when her face, digitalized and dyed blue, is on front pages all over the world.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - There was a time when Latin American fans could only follow their favorite artists on radio, in magazines, or on TV.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - All 2,500 employees of national airline Air Jamaica will lose their jobs on April 12 because the company will not exist, according to the government-owned company's chief executive officer

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - Colombia's oil exports increased to US$10.27 billion last year, making the industry account for just more than a third of the nation's total foreign trade, according to a report by the energy and mines ministry.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - He took up arms as a young man in search of social change.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - José Mujica, whose presidential term started on March 1, said his primary goals would be to stop governmental austerity, reduce poverty and improve the education and cultural knowledge of his people

SANTIAGO, Chile - The United States and Europe promised financial support to Chile as teams of international relief workers descended on the South American nation

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - The palm of your hand is the country's financial system's new ally for bank transactions at ATMs.

CANCÚN, Mexico - The 24 countries that took part in the Rio Group Summit agreed to create a "community of Latin American and Caribbean states," a regional bloc that would not include the United States or Canada.

SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile's Sebastián Piñera experienced international diplomacy for the first time since the president-elect was voted into office when he attended the Rio Group Summit

RID, Spain - Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants consumers worldwide to help Haiti's economy by purchasing goods made in the country, according to Agence France-Presse.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration is being questioned by its citizens over the steep price hikes of staple foods, especially meat.