Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is the president with the lowest approval rate in South America. She has the 20% followed by her Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo, with 25%.

Officials readied storm shelters along Mexico’s Caribbean coast Saturday and told fishermen and tour operators to pull in their boats amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it neared the resort city of Cancun.

Nicaragua’s San Cristobal volcano has let off a series of explosions, spewing gases and showering ash on nearby towns.

Manuel Zelaya, deposed Honduran president said yesterday in Guatemala that he would not abandon the struggle for returning in office and noted that the de facto regime of Robert Micheletti has failed in his attempt to gain international recognition.

The leader of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro, spoke in public for the first time since October 2007, as his phone conversation with the president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega was broadcast live.

“The Honduran people are not prepared to accept dictators of any kind,” Zelaya said through a megaphone on arriving at the border.

Deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya defied interim Government in his country, which has issued an arrest warrant against him, on having crossed a few meters inside the militarized border then returned to Nicaragua. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)