Latin America & Caribbean

27 January 2012 Last updated at 22:01 GMT

Nobel plea for Mexico journalists

A host of international writers including several Nobel laureates issue a joint statement condemning attacks on journalists in Mexico.

• Q&A: Mexico's drug-related violence
• Journalists' deaths 'unpunished'

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Funeral for Rio collapse victim

The funeral is held for the first of 14 confirmed victims of Wednesday's building collapse in Rio de Janeiro, as the search continues for about 12 missing people.

Paraguay president 'cancer free'

Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo is now free of cancer after successful chemotherapy treatment in Brazil, his doctors say.

• Guatemala ex-leader to face trial

  Ex-Guatemalan military leader Efrain Rios Montt is placed under house arrest after a judge rules he should be tried on genocide charges.

• Senate condemns UK over Falklands

  Argentina's Senate condemns a statement by the UK prime minister in which he criticised Argentina's attitude towards the Falkland islands. 934

• Zetas Mexico's 'biggest cartel'

• Brazil slum clearance row grows

• Suriname team find 46 new species BBC Nature

• Venezuela's Lopez exits poll race

• Ecuador court suspends libel case

• Six die in failed Mexico escape

• Allen Stanford fraud trial begins

BBC World Service

From BBC Mundo

• Vientos de cambio en el comunismo cubano

• Qué esperan los cubanos del congreso del Partido Comunista

• El Partido Comunista de Cuba celebra la primera conferencia de su historia

From BBC Brasil

• Tio relata temor por sobrinho desaparecido em desabamento no Rio

• Buscas no Rio se aproximam de área que concentrava mais vítimas

• Tio relata temor por sobrinho desaparecido em desabamento no Rio 

• COPIADO : www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/latin_america/