Days after the Venezuela Central Bank announced that inflation in the past year had climbed to 54 percent, Maduro said that five locations at a major appliance chain, Daka, were having their merchandise confiscated to be resold at a "fair price".

Maduro stopped short of saying that the Hawker plane, which bore a Mexican license plate, was involved in drug trafficking, but he referred to his government's successes on that front after the passage of a May 2012 airspace-defense law.

Maduro lit the Nativity lights at the Miraflores presidential palace over the weekend after his government announced it would pay Christmas bonuses two months early.

Maduro said more than 6,000 of his 1.4 million followers' accounts had been suspended in an attack carried out by Twitter and "the international right wing". Twitter won't comment on the matter.

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, claims that an image of late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has made its way on the wall of a construction site.

“Right now, the image isn’t there," he said. "Just as it appeared, it disappeared. So you can all see that what you all say is true: Chávez is everywhere. Chávez is you. Boy, girl, woman, artisan, worker."

The president of Mexico is going to pardon a school teacher convicted of killing 7 police officers in 2000.

Fusion, the new Latino-oriented cable channel, has landed President Obama as their first interview. The interview will air at 7 p.m. on Monday.

Mexico's former president Vicente Fox says espionage is a common thing. Every country does it and Felipe Calderón shouldn't be so "shocked" that the NSA spied on him.

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the president of Argentina, is undergoing brain surgery, according to the hospital Fundación Favaloro in Buenos Aires. The operation is to remove blood that had accumulated under a membrane that covers the brain after a head injury in August.

In a speech at the Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan, Calderón defended his record as president, saying that deregulating reforms passed during his 2006-2012 term were to thank for the continued growth of Mexico’s economy.

President Obama is blaming the House GOP for holding the government hostage and causing the government shutdown.

A former animator with Disney, turned historian believes he has discovered a rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg.

The letter, signed by Carlos Slim and two other heads of large Mexico corporations, names names. A construction-materials transportation syndicate as well as a new rapid-transit bus project have been infiltrated by organized crime, accuse the firms.

Just before President Barack Obama delivered his remarks at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Brazil’s president issued a scathing rebuke of the National Security Agency’s spying programs and called on the UN to establish a new global legal system to protect the “neutrality of the network, guided only by technical and ethical criteria”.

President Obama urged the American people to demand congress pass new gun control legislation while giving a memorial speech for those killed in the Navy Yard shooting.

Correa, who was in Cuba to take a tour of homes for Hurricane Sandy victims built by Ecuadorian military engineers, said he spoke with Fidel Castro for two hours and praised him as the "living history of Latin America".

Hiroshi Yamauchi, former President of Nintendo, has died of pneumonia at the age of 85. Yamauchi is credited with launching Nintendo from a trading card company to a video game giant.

The president of Brazil has canceled her trip to the U.S after allegations the NSA was spying on the Brazilian people.

In Peña Nieto’s first eight months on the job, murder rates have fallen sharply. But kidnapping and extortion has gone up significantly, suggesting that the Mexican president’s security record may be more of a mixed bag than he’d like to admit.

The television journalists showed frustration on his social network for not granting an interview to the Hispanic network.

CBS correspondent Charlie Rose interviewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about the use of chemical weapons on Syrian civilians.

President Obama plans to take executive action on gun control.

Nintendo’s president shares his thoughts on the launch lineups for PS4 and Xbox One.

The President of Colombia is ready to begin peace talks with the rebel group ELN.

Twitter users went into overdrive on Wednesday, reacting to a video of a speech made by Nicolás Maduro in the Venezuelan state of Miranda in which the president made what ranks among his worst verbal gaffes.

Four destroyer ships are waiting in the Mediterranean Sea for the order from President Obama to attack Syria.

Farmers strikes in Colombia have reached its' second week. Protesters are angry over the President's free trade agreement with the US and the EU.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was skewered along with a handful of other Latin American and Spanish political figures on “La Isla Presidencial” (“The Presidential Island”), a popular Venezuelan animated show. Last Friday, Maduro panned the show’s acerbic take on him.

The Obama administration has spoken out against breed specific legislation.