Seventeen people were killed and 10 injured in an attack on a party in Torreon, Mexico, the state-run news agency Notimex reported, citing a representative of the federal attorney’s general office.
More than 11 days after doctors in Cuba performed emergency surgery on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the official information released about his condition could fit on one side of an index card.
At least nine people died when two trains and a bus collided in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, police said.
Two people were killed and one more injured when gunmen opened fire at a political rally in southern Mexico on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
Colombian TV stations aired proof-of-life videos Monday of five hostages being held by Marxist guerrillas.
A passenger on the Air Canada flight in which a young Asian man boarded disguised as an elderly man says she tried to warn the crew about the mask but was rebuffed.
The commissioner of Mexico’s National Migration Institute has resigned, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo underwent minor surgery Wednesday to remove a swollen lymph node from his groin, the head of state announced on his web page.
Authorities were investigating Sunday after a gunshot wound to the face killed the governor of Argentina’s Rio Negro province, state media reported.
A team of forensic experts who testified in a high-profile trial that saw former members of the Guatemalan army convicted of crimes against humanity have received death threats for their participation, Amnesty International said Friday.
Cuban state media this week expressed outrage at a rumor of the death of Fidel Castro, and even pinpointed the Twitter account they say sparked the fuss. But the account’s owner, a Spaniard named David Fernandez, says Cuba has it wrong.
Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church on Monday announced the names of three more political prisoners soon to be released from jail, raising the total number to 39 following a deal brokered by church leaders and Spain’s Foreign Ministry back in July.
From a bat christened “yoda” to frogs with inflating noses dubbed “Pinocchio.”
A popular Mexican poet who led a massive peace march in the nation’s capital last weekend says he’s chosen a new battleground for his fight for justice: Ciudad Juarez.
Federal and state representatives of the office of Mexico’s attorney general met Friday with the families of the 16 partygoers shot dead Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, a police spokesman told CNN.
Mexican authorities over the weekend found 55 bodies inside a mine ventilation shaft that was used as a mass grave in the city of Taxco, officials said Monday.
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