At least eight people have died in a cold snap in Argentina in the past several days, the nation’s state-run news agency reported.
As of Tueday night there were no confirmed fatalities and 11 possible missing persons as the result of a landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Gov. Ulises Ruiz told CNN.
A defiant Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa returned safely to the presidential palace late Thursday after spending hours held by police inside a hospital room outside Quito.
In a nationally televised address Monday, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner expressed her sorrow for the loss of her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner, and gave thanks for the outpouring of support that followed.
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe denied accusations Thursday that he ordered the government’s spy agency to wiretap his political opponents.
Virtually all of the miners who were trapped for 69 days in a Chilean mine last year have filed a lawsuit against the government, seeking more than half a million dollars each in damages.
Biologists suspect that unusually cold waters off the coast of Brazil were responsible for the deaths of more than 550 penguins that washed up on shore in the past 10 days.
Gilberto Angulos does not need to say a word to tell the tale of working 30 years in Chile’s mines. His broken body does all the talking for him.
The 33 miners trapped far below the surface of the Earth appear in mind and spirit to be as strong as “solid rock” and are working well together as a team, Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich said Thursday.
The director of a battered women’s shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was being held Wednesday on charges that she trafficked and prostituted the women she cared for and allegedly forced them to commit sex acts with strangers, local authorities told CNN.
Despite concerns of attacks against freedom of the press and opposition politicians, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his track record as leader of the South American country in an interview with CNN en Español.
Venezuela and Colombia renewed diplomatic relations after a meeting between their heads of state in Santa Marta, Colombia.
The painstaking process of hoisting 33 miners trapped nearly a half-mile below ground for more than two months in northern Chile was completed Wednesday night, less than a day after it began, ending a saga that gripped a nation that never gave up hope.
At least 59 people have been killed in and around the region of Mexico’s richest city, Monterrey, since the start of 2011, according to a tally kept by officials at the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, a spokesman told CNN Tuesday.
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