http://www.laht.comLatin American Herald Tribuneen-usCopyright 2012 Latin American Herald Tribunehttp://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506825&CategoryId=13002Mexican Hugo Sanchez, a one-time Real Madrid player, has been named the new coach of Mexico’s Pachuca, the team said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506823&CategoryId=13003U.S. philosopher Martha Nussbaum was named Wednesday as this year’s recipient of the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences for her contribution to the humanities, the philosophy of law and politics, and for her ethical conception of economic development.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506817&CategoryId=14089The small Mexican-registered plane that crashed last weekend in Ecuador was carrying $1.3 million, police said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506816&CategoryId=23558The body of journalist Alfredo Villatoro, who was kidnapped last week, was found in the southern section of Tegucigalpa, Honduran Security Minister Pompeyo Bonilla said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506803&CategoryId=13303La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y Alimentación (FAO), en su informe mensual de precios de los alimentos en América Latina y el Caribe, observa una tendencia a la desaceleración de las tasas de inflación general y de alimentos en la región.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506554&CategoryId=14090Nearly 300 people broke into a jail in the northeastern Brazilian town of Tapiramuta, dragged a suspected murderer out of his cell and burned him to death, Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper said Tuesday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506553&CategoryId=10718A bomb targeting former Interior Minister Fernando Londoño killed his driver and a bodyguard and wounded 39 others Tuesday in the Colombian capital, police said, amending earlier official comments that spoke of five dead and 29 injured.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506552&CategoryId=12395Four people were arrested Tuesday for blocking the entrance to Chicago’s federal immigration court during a protest against deportations of undocumented immigrants.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506551&CategoryId=12395Thousands of people packed into Madrid’s emblematic Puerta del Sol square on Tuesday for a pot-banging protest to mark the first anniversary of the founding of the May 15th Movement, representing Spaniards who are “indignant” about austerity policies amid recession and 24 percent unemployment.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506550&CategoryId=12393The Colombian government notified France that it will do what is necessary to enable leftist rebels’ plan to release a French journalist who fell into guerrilla hands, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506549&CategoryId=12396With a booming business preparing and selling food products, Mexican immigrant David Martinez practices just the kind of entrepreneurship the Chicago municipality seeks to promote among immigrants.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506547&CategoryId=13003Carlos Fuentes, a towering literary figure in the Spanish-speaking world, died Tuesday at a hospital in the Mexican capital. He was 83.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506546&CategoryId=13003Radio Ambulante, an online radio project that enables thousands of stories from every corner of the Western Hemisphere where Spanish is spoken to be told and listened to, premiered Tuesday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506545&CategoryId=13003Lissette Alvarez presented Tuesday in the United States her 50th album “Soles” (Suns), whose title cut means something very special for the Cuban singer.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506544&CategoryId=14093Spanish oil major Repsol sent a letter to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez formally proclaiming a dispute over Buenos Aires’ nationalization of the company’s YPF unit, the first step toward invoking international arbitration.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506543&CategoryId=14090A section of a historic house in downtown Rio de Janeiro collapsed Tuesday for unknown reasons, but no one was injured because the structure was empty, Brazilian emergency services officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506541&CategoryId=14091Mexico is experiencing a surge in violence, with journalists among the victims, amid a presidential campaign, with no end in sight to the killing as rival cartels battle each other and impunity prevails in the country.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506540&CategoryId=14510Cuba’s universities reduced admissions by 26 percent in the 2011-2012 academic year, the National Statistics Office, or ONE, said Tuesday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506539&CategoryId=14919The attorney for a 53-year-old American man who is on hunger strike in the Bolivian prison where he has been held for 11 months without formal charges said that he sent a complaint to the U.S. Embassy in La Paz because of the scant progress being made on his case.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506538&CategoryId=12393Colombia’s attorney general confirmed the arrest of 12 politicians in the Caribbean province of Magdalena on charges they won electoral support from right-wing paramilitaries by promising to funnel public money to the gunmen.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506537&CategoryId=14091The government of Mexico’s Morelos state has asked the federal Attorney General’s Office for assistance in investigating the murder of journalist Rene Orta Salgado, whose body was found over the weekend in the trunk of his automobile, state officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506535&CategoryId=13003More than 3,000 Ecuadorian archaeological finds including the most impressive works of the Manteño civilization are kept in the storerooms of a Washington museum, from which the government in Quito said it wants them removed so people can have a better appreciation of Ecuador’s history.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506534&CategoryId=14091The government of the western Mexican state of Michoacan has dropped charges against 10 Michoacan University of San Nicolas de Hidalgo, or UMSNH, students arrested April 28 after protests that resulted in the torching of two state vehicles, officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506533&CategoryId=14091Seven journalists and media outlets have been attacked in Mexico in the past few days, with officials or people linked to politicians possibly involved in three of the incidents, the Foundation for Freedom of Expression, or Fundalex, said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506531&CategoryId=14091The dismembered bodies of two men were found buried in trash bags at a house in Temixco, a city in the central Mexican state of Morelos, prosecutors said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506511&CategoryId=13303Entre los flagelos que afectan actualmente a todo venezolano, sin distingo de clase social, raza, credo o filiación política, están la violencia y la delincuencia generalizada.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506186&CategoryId=12393Leaders of a dozen organizations that are part of a new leftist political movement calling itself Marcha Patriotica have been threatened by right-wing paramilitaries, one of the people targeted said Monday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506184&CategoryId=10718Former Sen. Piedad Cordoba and the International Committee of the Red Cross agreed on Monday to form a delegation to receive a French journalist captured last month by leftist FARC rebels while embedded with Colombian security forces, but neither Paris nor Bogota commented on the proposed release.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506183&CategoryId=14094Several activists from the Chilean contingent of Greenpeace unfurled a giant sign Tuesday on the front of the Santiago office of Brazilian energy firm CGX to protest the “illegality” of a coal-fired power plant the company plans to install in northern Chile.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506182&CategoryId=14094A 46-year-old woman who took a baby from the maternity ward at a Santiago hospital on Mother’s Day was arrested Monday, Chilean authorities said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506181&CategoryId=12395The case of an undocumented Mexican in South Carolina who is fighting deportation with support from U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) will put the validity of the authorities’ new discretionary policy to the test.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506180&CategoryId=14091Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has grabbed second place from conservative Josefina Vazquez Mota in the race for Mexico’s presidency, but Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, candidate Enrique Peña Nieto remains the frontrunner, poll results published Monday by the El Universal newspaper show.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506179&CategoryId=14510Five people died and several others were injured Monday when a bus turned over on a highway in the eastern Cuban province of Holguin, official media said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506178&CategoryId=12393Seven FARC rebels deserted the guerrilla group in a region on the Colombian-Ecuadorian border and surrendered to military troops while handing over more than 1.25 tons of explosives and other war materiel, the army’s ANE news agency reported Monday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506169&CategoryId=14095Three men charged with drug trafficking and one accused of sexual abuse escaped over the weekend from a Peruvian jail under circumstances still under investigation, Quillabamba police chief Ronald Bayona said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506167&CategoryId=14091A total of 136 tons of drug precursors were seized in Lazaro Cardenas, a port on Mexico’s Pacific coast, where the substance arrived from China, the Navy Secretariat said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506165&CategoryId=12395The mother of a brilliant student in Colorado was set free after authorities suspended her scheduled deportation for a year, apparently in response to a mobilization by pro-immigrant groups.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506164&CategoryId=13002A 31-year-old man died at a hospital in the Argentine city of Rosario over the weekend after being shot following the match between Newell’s Old Boys and Union de Santa Fe, hospital spokesmen said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506163&CategoryId=14510The fire last month that ravaged an agency offering charter flights to Cuba from Miami was set deliberately, authorities determined.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506161&CategoryId=23558The man who managed the leftist FMLN’s successful campaign for the mayoralty of the central Salvadoran town of El Rosario was gunned down by unknown assailants, police said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506156&CategoryId=14091The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, a defender of the rights of Central American migrants, has suspended his humanitarian work indefinitely after receiving death threats, Mexican media reported.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506154&CategoryId=13003Jessica Sanchez, one of the three finalists of “American Idol,” gave a performance for hundreds of fans in her hometown of Chula Vista before the grand finale.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506145&CategoryId=14092An 8-year-old boy died over the weekend when he was swept away by the current of a rain-swollen stream in the northern Dominican Republic, emergency services officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506143&CategoryId=14094A magnitude-6.4 earthquake shook the northern Chilean regions of Arica, Parinacota and Tarapaca on Monday without leaving any victims, though it did cause some minor damage and utility service failures, authorities said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506141&CategoryId=14093Searchers recovered the bodies of six of the seven crewmen killed when an Argentine-flagged sand barge sank over the weekend after colliding on the Parana River with a Paraguayan-flagged tugboat, Argentine officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506140&CategoryId=13002A total of 32 people were injured in the fire that broke out over the weekend in the garage of the Williams Formula One team after the Spanish Grand Prix at the Catalunya Circuit in northeastern Spain, emergency services officials said Monday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506139&CategoryId=14091The body of Mexican reporter Rene Orta Salgado was found over the weekend by police in the trunk of his car in the central state of Morelos, prosecutors said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506107&CategoryId=13303Todo triunfo de un venezolano en el exterior debería ser digno de encomio, incluyendo los deportivos de cualquier disciplina.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=506001&CategoryId=10717The Caracas Stock Exchange went down compared to last week closing at 259,869, 5.76% lower than last week’s levels.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505770&CategoryId=13002Switzerland’s Roger Federer defeated Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 Sunday in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open, becoming the first player to win three titles at the Spanish capital’s Masters 1000 tournament.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505768&CategoryId=14510Spain considers it “necessary to end the trade, economic and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States” since it “violates the basic rules of international trade,” the Spanish government said in response to a question posed in Parliament.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505767&CategoryId=12393A total of 55 people, including 32 police officers, were injured in two accidents in Colombia’s Boyaca and Huila provinces, officials said Sunday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505766&CategoryId=10718At least 49 mutilated bodies were found on the side of a highway in Cadereyta, a city in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, Federal Police spokesmen said on Sunday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505765&CategoryId=13003Brazilian supermodel Isabeli Fontana told Veja magazine that she planned to marry Rohan Marley, son of legendary reggae singer Bob Marley, in Ethiopia, the birthplace of the Rastafarian movement.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505764&CategoryId=14919A 53-year-old U.S. citizen jailed in Bolivia for 11 months without formal charges has been on hunger strike since mid-April to draw attention to his case, U.S. media reported.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505763&CategoryId=14089At least 12 people, including two babies, were killed and 26 others injured when a public transit bus plunged into a ravine early Sunday in Chimborazo, a province in Ecuador’s central Andean region, police said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505762&CategoryId=12393The bodies of two missing 4-year-old girls have been found and it appears that they were raped, Colombian police said, adding that two suspects are under arrest.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505761&CategoryId=14091The National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, is investigating the attack last week on journalist Gerardo Ponce de Leon in Hermosillo, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Sonora, commission president Raul Plascencia said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505622&CategoryId=13002Williams’ Pastor Maldonado became the first Venezuelan driver to win a Formula One race after holding off Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505408&CategoryId=13002Williams’ Pastor Maldonado became on Saturday the first Venezuelan driver to gain a top starting spot in Formula One after McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was sent to the back of the grid for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix when his team failed to put enough fuel in his car.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505401&CategoryId=12395Spanish protesters took to the streets Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of their launch of an anti-austerity movement and to recall that their “indignation” remains intact and that they now have more reasons to protest than ever.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505400&CategoryId=13002Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro fell short in his bid to reach his first Mutua Madrid Open final, losing 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6) to Czech Tomas Berdych on Saturday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505399&CategoryId=12395Mitt Romney, the near-certain Republican presidential nominee, said Saturday that “marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman,” after President Barack Obama spoke in support of gay marriage earlier this week.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505398&CategoryId=13003Colombian pop star Shakira set a new record on social networks this week as the number of her fans on Facebook zoomed to 50 million.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505397&CategoryId=14090Brazilian police on Saturday found the dead body of a suspected major drug dealer in the slums of Rio de Janeiro shortly after a shootout.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505395&CategoryId=14093Seven people have gone missing after Argentine- and Paraguayan-flagged vessels collided in the Parana Delta, Argentine coast guard officials said Saturday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505394&CategoryId=14091Some 250 Cubans have been detained in difficult, dubious conditions at the Tapachula migrant station in southeastern Mexico awaiting judgment on their legal status, the independent National Human Rights Commission, or CNDH, said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505393&CategoryId=14091Police in the western Mexican state of Jalisco have arrested four suspects in the massacre of 18 people whose bodies were found this week outside the city of Guadalajara, officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505392&CategoryId=13002Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and automotive designer who created the famous Cobra sports car, died at a Dallas hospital, his company said. He was 89.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505391&CategoryId=14094Chile’s Supreme Court has blocked a hydroelectric plant project in the Patagonia region, accepting an appeal filed by environmental groups.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505390&CategoryId=13003Luis Miguel, the Mexican singer who best embodies the romantic ideal on both sides of the Atlantic, put the finishing touches on his first concert tour of Spain in five years with a show in the Spanish capital.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505370&CategoryId=14510The United States has rejected an apparent Cuban offer to exchange imprisoned American contractor Alan Gross for five Cuban intelligence agents convicted of espionage in Florida more than a decade ago.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505369&CategoryId=10718Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home from Cuba after an 11-day absence for cancer treatment, saying his latest round of radiation therapy had ended successfully and he is very optimistic about his recovery.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=505000&CategoryId=13003Female pilot Evelyn Bryan Johnson, known as “Mama Bird,” died in Morristown, Tennessee, The Knoxville Sentinel said Friday. She was 102.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504999&CategoryId=13002Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro continued his steady progress through the draw at the Mutua Madrid Open, brushing aside Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-3, 6-4 Friday to reach the semifinals.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504998&CategoryId=23558Costa Rica’s migration court rejected on Friday a request for asylum from a Cuban who has spent the past 50 days at San Jose’s Juan Santamaria International Airport.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504996&CategoryId=10718The former military chief of Colombia’s AUC militia federation, extradited four years ago to the United States on drug charges, said Friday he and his now-demobilized organization supported and financed the 2006 re-election campaign of then-President Alvaro Uribe.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504995&CategoryId=12395Surrounded by Hollywood stars, President Barack Obama was the leading character in an exclusive fundraiser held at George Clooney’s California home, where he admitted that his reelection will be more complicated than his victory in 2008.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504994&CategoryId=14091The Mexican Attorney General’s Office said Friday that it is prepared to pay up to 16.5 billion pesos ($1.23 billion) in rewards for information leading to the rescue of 11 kidnapping victims and the arrests of their captors.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504993&CategoryId=12395The federal government’s Secure Communities program, which expedites the deportation of undocumented immigrants under police custody, has become an issue in the sheriff’s race here in Travis County, Texas.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504992&CategoryId=14091Mexico’s independent National Human Rights Commission plans to investigate the arrest of nearly 300 college students last month in the western city of Morelia.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504990&CategoryId=12396Spain’s conservative government on Friday approved a new financial-sector overhaul – the second in three months – to shore up banks saddled with risky real-estate assets, alleviate concerns about their solvency and restore market confidence.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504989&CategoryId=13003For Rashel Diaz, host of the Telemundo morning program “Levantate” (Get Up), reporting on the “ins and outs of fashion” among the stars who strut the red carpet at the beginning of any event is a tremendous professional challenge.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504988&CategoryId=23558Two people were killed and three others wounded in a clash between Honduran security forces and drug smugglers in the Caribbean coastal area of Ahuas, Honduran police said Friday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504987&CategoryId=14091Mexican authorities announced Friday the arrest of the Los Zetas drug cartel’s reputed chief enforcer in the Gulf state coast of Veracruz on suspicion he masterminded last month’s brutal murders of four navy personnel and a civilian.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504985&CategoryId=14090Three people convicted in the 2002 murder of a Brazilian mayor who was also leader of the now-governing Workers Party were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 18 to 24 years.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504983&CategoryId=14092The academic director of Spain’s Cervantes Institute noted the problems involved in establishing public bilingual education in Puerto Rico, where Spanish is the mother tongue of the vast majority.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504982&CategoryId=14090Brazil’s four largest wireless carriers have filed applications challenging plans for an auction of 4G spectrum currently scheduled for June, telecoms regulator Anatel said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504981&CategoryId=14095Nineteen people were killed and seven others injured when a bus plunged into a ravine in the northern province of Chachapoyas, Peru’s National Police said on Friday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504980&CategoryId=13003Singers Romeo Santos and Prince Royce broke records this year in the number of nominations garnered for the Premios Juventud awards with 11 and 10 respectively, Univision Network said in a live online broadcast.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504979&CategoryId=14510Cuba said it plans to invest up to $450 million over the next few years in a program to increase domestic rice production, which remains insufficient to meet the demand on the island, state television reported.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504978&CategoryId=14510Prominent Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer has been released in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba after being held for 29 hours.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504976&CategoryId=14091Five people were killed in a clash with army soldiers and state police on a highway in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504962&CategoryId=13303This Wednesday, May 9, SoiTV broadcast the statements of Luis Velásquez Alvaray, another former justice who has fallen into Chavismo’s bad books and who is also in exile.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504957&CategoryId=13303Este miércoles 9 de mayo SoiTV trasmitió las declaraciones de Luis Velásquez Alvaray, otro ex magistrado caído en desgracia con el chavismo y también en el exilio por las acusaciones de corrupción.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504564&CategoryId=14092At least 25 workers were poisoned on Thursday when they inhaled propane gas that leaked from some tanks located at a tobacco processing plant in the town of Licey al Medio in the northern Dominican province of Santiago.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504562&CategoryId=14091Mexico’s central state of Puebla has announced the cancelation of Spanish infrastructure company OHL’s concession to build and operate a 35-kilometer (22-mile) highway.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504560&CategoryId=13003The Mexican and Filipino communities in the San Diego neighborhood of East Lake have rallied behind the success of Jessica Sanchez, who is hoping to be one of the three finalists on “American Idol.”http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504559&CategoryId=14091Hundreds of mothers and other relatives of the “disappeared” held a protest in this capital on Thursday – Mother’s Day in Mexico – to demand justice.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504557&CategoryId=14091Regional wireless giant America Movil, controlled by Mexican multi-billionaire Carlos Slim, said Thursday it has agreed to acquire a 100 percent stake in U.S. wireless carrier Simple Mobile, Inc., a unit of T-Mobile USA.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504556&CategoryId=12395The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it has filed suit against Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and its flamboyant head, Joe Arpaio, for discriminating against Hispanics.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504555&CategoryId=14095Peru’s defense and interior ministers resigned Thursday as Congress prepared a motion to censure the government for a military operation that resulted in the deaths of 10 soldiers and police, the office of the Cabinet chief said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504554&CategoryId=13002Spain’s Fernando Verdasco pulled off a stunning third-set comeback to defeat Rafael Nadal 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 Thursday in the third round of the Mutua Madrid Open, his first win over his countryman in 14 matches.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504553&CategoryId=14510Cuba currently has 1,618 restaurants and 5,207 lodgings within the non-state-run sector after the reforms implemented by the government of Raul Castro to increase the scope for private enterprise, the official daily Juventud Rebelde reported Thursday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504551&CategoryId=13003A team of U.S. archaeologists announced Thursday the discovery of the oldest Mayan calendar to date, a ninth-century artifact amid the ruins of an ancient city in Guatemala.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504550&CategoryId=23558At least 80 tons of drug precursors were seized in two separate operations in Guatemala and one person was arrested, the National Civilian Police, or PNC, said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504548&CategoryId=10718The historic and politically risky announcement by President Barack Obama supporting same-sex marriage comes at a time when the largely Catholic Hispanic community is also evolving its opinion on the matter, experts consulted on the subject said on Thursday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504547&CategoryId=13002Spain’s Princess Letizia said in her speech on Thursday opening the International Seminar on Language and Journalism that sportswriters play a unique media role as “emotional guides” who not only inform but also “arouse passions.”http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504546&CategoryId=12395Spain’s Civil Guard has taken down a gang that employed extremely violent tactics in robbing drug dealers, arresting 15 suspects, officials said Thursday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504545&CategoryId=14091Three Mexican brothers were sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to conspiring to operate an interstate prostitution ring that relied on women who were smuggled in from Mexico and Central America and coerced into working for the trio.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504544&CategoryId=13003Hispanic film star Eva Mendes is proud of her career after many initially said of her that her look was not “commercial,” she told Efe at the U.S. screening of the comedy “Girl in Progress.”http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504543&CategoryId=12396Home sales fell 22.7 percent to 25,464 units in March, compared to the same month in 2011, marking 13 consecutive months of drops, the Spanish National Statistics Institute, or INE, said Thursday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504541&CategoryId=12393At least seven police officers were killed and 12 others wounded early Thursday in an attack by FARC guerrillas on a camp for officers taking part in a coca-eradication campaign near Colombia’s northeastern border with Venezuela, officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504539&CategoryId=13003Mexican rock band Molotov, known for taking overtly political stances on social issues in its songs, says it now prefers to seek more subtle and intelligent ways to convey its message.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504533&CategoryId=13003Spain’s Princess Cristina received a personal guided tour of the “Joan Miro: The Ladder of Escape” exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504530&CategoryId=14093A court in Buenos Aires arraigned a woman on domestic violence charges after she hit her 7-year-old grandson for bringing home a bad report card, the Argentine press said Thursday.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504529&CategoryId=14091Mexico registered record hotel occupancy of 185,550 reserved rooms during the January-April period, up 7.6 percent compared to the same period in 2011, the Tourism Secretariat said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504528&CategoryId=13002Mexico’s under-23 national soccer team will compete in a tournament this month in Toulon, France, fielding a squad of 20 players under consideration for the Olympic roster.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504527&CategoryId=14095An officer was killed and 18 others were injured when a police helicopter crashed in the jungle during an anti-drug operation in Mazamari, a district in central Peru, officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504526&CategoryId=14091The remains of 18 people, including some who were beheaded and all of whom were mutilated, have now been found by a highway near the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, officials said.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504512&CategoryId=13303This Monday, May 7, the Basic Law on Work, Male Workers, and Female Workers (LOTTT) decreed by Hugo Chávez under the Special Powers Act was published in an extraordinary edition of the Gaceta Oficial.http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=504511&CategoryId=13303El lunes 7 de mayo salió en Gaceta Oficial Extraordinaria la Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trabajadores y las Trabajadoras (LOTTT), decretada de manera inconsulta y unilateralmente, vía Ley Habilitante por Hugo Chávez.