Three suspects have been arrested in the August slaying of 12 indigenous Awa people in southwestern Colombia, the military announced Tuesday.
I wake up with the light, just before 6 a.m., and reach for my vitamin pills hanging above my hammock. I get out of bed and peer through the gloom to see if Cho is up yet and has started the fire. If so, I will probably go to the river and check the fishing net to see if we have a catch.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa claimed victory in a referendum on government and social reforms that critics have charged is a thinly disguised attempt to consolidate more power.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde paid a visit to Brazil’s capital Monday, making overtures toward developing nations to support her bid to become the first female president of the International Monetary Fund.
Colombia’s main leftist rebel group shot and killed four hostages held for more than a decade, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday, vowing to fight the rebels with everything in reach.
The first Atlantic hurricane of 2011 strengthened to a Category 2 late Monday as it stormed through the Caribbean, churning just north of the Dominican Republic.
Four people died and at least 30,000 residents were affected in southern Mexico as a result of heavy rain and winds from then-Tropical Storm Frank, which has now intensified into a hurricane, the government-run Notimex news agency said Wednesday.
Cuba’s Fidel Castro on Tuesday said he would publish a new book in August on the fighting more than 50 years ago between his ragtag rebels and the 10,000-strong army under former dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Rescue operations were set to continue Thursday in Peru after a possibly overloaded ferry capsized in the Amazon River, killing at least 12 of the officially listed 152 people on board, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
The mayor of a small town in western Mexico and his personal secretary were found dead Monday in the official’s truck, the government-run news service said.
Venezuela’s new prisons minister believes that 40% of the country’s inmates do not belong behind bars, the El Nacional newspaper reported.
The message is clear: No security, no classes! And thousands of teachers in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco are taking that message to the streets. Their goal is to make clear to the government that they’re fed up with the violence that is terrorizing Mexico.
For 10 years passionate sailing enthusiast Thomas Lemon has been building boats that seem to defy all logic.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited Wednesday with Alan Gross, an American contractor sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison, and urged the government to free him.
Members of Venezuela’s opposition lashed out Sunday against the government’s decision to investigate a newspaper that published an explicit photograph of bodies at a morgue.
A short but severe storm with high winds and heavy rain has killed five people in Haiti’s earthquake devastated capital, the United Nations said.
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