An unusually brilliant moon rises over Mexico City, Monday, March 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez throws the ball during an exhibition softball game in Caracas, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Employees of Radio Caracas Television, RCTV, protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 after the government forced the channel, critical of President Hugo Chavez, off the cable networks. (AP Photo/Leonardo Ramirez)
A dancer performs during a Caribbean Series baseball game between Venezuela and Dominican Republic in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Dominican Republic won the game 3-2. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez holds a sword which he announced was used by Venezuela’s independence hero Simon Bolivar at a military parade in Fort Tiuna in Caracas, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Chavez commemorated the anniversary of a failed coup that catapulted him to fame 18 years ago. (AP Photo/Leonardo Ramirez)
Miss Venezuela 2009 Marelisa Gibson, right, Miss Dominican Republic, Ada Aimee de la Cruz, second from right, Miss Puerto Rico, Mayra Matos, third from right, and Miss Mexico Karla Carrillo, left, applaud during the opening ceremony of the Caribbean Series in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Employees of the Exito hypermarket shout slogans to protest Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez’s decision to expropriate the store in front of an Exito hypermarket in Caracas, Monday, Jan 18, 2010. Chavez said on Sunday his government would seize control of the French-owned hypermarket chain accusing it of price speculation following the country’s currency devaluation. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
The Tungurahua volcano erupts in Cotalo, in Ecuador’s Andes region, early Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. The Tungurahua has been active since 1999. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
Soldiers seize a shop, accused of raising prices, in Caracas, Monday, Jan. 11, 2009. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to seize businesses that raise prices as a result of last week’s devaluation of Venezuela’s currency. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
An officer of Venezuela’s consumer protection agency checks prices as soldiers look on at a supermarket, accused of raising prices, in Caracas, Monday, Jan. 11, 2009. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to seize businesses that raise prices as a result of last week’s devaluation of Venezuela’s currency. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A customer, carrying a microwave oven, leaves a store in Caracas, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said Friday the bolivar will now have two government-set rates: 2.60 to the dollar for transactions deemed priorities by the government, and 4.30 to the dollar for other transactions.
A bull charges into an amateur bullfighter after he fell in San Jose, Costa Rica, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)
In this photo distributed by the press office of Tierra del Fuego government, Alex Freyre, right, and his partner Jose Maria Di Bello, both HIV positive, show their wedding certificate after their marriage at the civil registry of Ushuaia, in southern Argentina, Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. The couple’s union is the first gay marriage in Latin America. (AP Photo/Government of Tierra del Fuego)
Shamans hold doves and a photo of President Barack Obama during a ritual for world peace in 2010, in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
