Floods and landslides triggered by the first tropical storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season have killed at least 96 people in Central America.
Officials say more than 80 people have been killed in Guatemala alone, including four children swept away in a landslide.
Deaths have also been reported in El Salvador and Honduras. Mexico has also been hit by Tropical Storm Agatha.
More than 74,000 people in the region have been forced to flee their homes.
The storm pounded Central America and Mexico Saturday and Sunday. Agatha made landfall near the Guatemala-Mexico border Saturday with winds of 75 kilometers per hour.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reports the storm is moving toward the western Caribbean Sea. Heavy rains continue over portions of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
Thousands of people in Guatemala had already been evacuated due to the eruption of the Pacaya volcano, which has killed at least one person. The volcano, just south of Guatemala City, began spewing lava and rocks Thursday. The eruptions have shut down the country’s main airport.
Explosive eruptions shook two huge volcanoes in Central and South America yesterday, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes and disrupting air traffic as ash drifted over wide regions.
If Swiss mathematician Roger Kaufmann’s calculations are anything to go by, it looks like Spain and Brazil are most likely to meet each other at the finals of the World Cup.
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Brazil’s World Cup squad began training yesterday amid a crush of excited supporters and reporters.
Eleven Latin American countries, advocates of a total ban on whaling, began a three day meeting in Costa Rica yesterday to hammer out a common position ahead of the next conference of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in June.
To celebrate this year’s major sporting event Volunteer Latin America is giving everyone the chance to win £150 and an official World Cup match football.
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Argentine Federico Aubele is first and foremost a guitar player. But inspired by artists as diverse as avant-garde tango composer Astor Piazzolla, Wes Montgomery, and Thievery Corporation, he set out to create a solo record that crossed electronica, dub, and Latin guitar music while capturing the sound and feeling of Buenos Aires. The resulting album, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires – actually produced by Thievery Corporation and released on their label, ESL – is like the reverse image of trip-hop. Aubele’s songs are atmospheric, driven by sampled beats, and even employ scratching in some cases, but unlike trip-hop, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires is sunny, free-spirited, and celebratory. Always at the centre of tracks like “Ante Tus Ojos” and “Despertar” is Aubele’s hypnotic guitar. Around that he collages an entire band worth of instruments and samples and, finally, sultry female vocals sung by friends of Aubele from Buenos Aires. The format seems ultimately liberating, allowing Aubele the ability to masterfully apply solid hip-hop beats to jazzy Latin numbers and to allow what could be Argentine folk songs to drift into the realm of electronic ambience and dub (the beautiful “Diario de Viaje”). Gran Hotel Buenos Aires is a wholly brilliant album and Federico Aubele may be to Argentina what Sigur Rós is to Iceland: the most forward-thinking and experimental artist to capture the sound of his homeland’s cultural, symbolic, and physical geography. 
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