Eight people, including members of a local politician’s staff, were killed when a small plane crashed in Mexico, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Sunday. The politician, Roberto Borge Angulo, who is running for governor in the state of Quintana Roo, was not on the plane, the agency said.
The Brazilian government “remains highly sensitive to public claims suggesting that terrorist or extremist organizations have a presence” or are active in the country, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
Cuba’s Roman Catholic church has identified 12 more jailed dissidents who are expected to be freed in what would be the largest Cuban prisoner release in more than a decade.
Breathlessly, they came, carrying suitcases, plastic bags and just about anything that would hold the few belongings they still had.
When the cell phone rang, the words “private number” flashed on the screen. Marisol Valles Garcia knew who was calling. The threatening, mysterious voice on the other end of the line had hounded her for almost four months.
Haiti’s capital seemed to spring back to life Wednesday, more than a week after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened many parts of the city and killed tens of thousands.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has put the brakes on a controversial road project through a national park in the Amazon rainforest where indigenous communities live.
Four people were killed when a car bomb exploded in front of a police station in southern Colombia on Thursday, an official said.
An American couple in Belize struggled Tuesday to figure out their future, their dreams literally up in smoke after a mob of indigenous Mayans burned down their animal sanctuary in the belief the foreigners fed two missing children to crocodiles on their property.
A Brazilian cameraman died in a Rio de Janeiro slum while covering a police raid targeting organized drug militias, police said Sunday.
More aftershocks rocked parts of Chile early Thursday, five days after a massive earthquake that killed more than 800 people.
A weakened Hurricane Ophelia spun well off the coast of New England on Sunday night, appearing to pose no danger to the U.S. mainland but prompting threats to Newfoundland as it headed north-northeast.
At least six people died in a collision between two trains and a bus in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Tuesday, the state-run Telam news agency reported, citing the city’s fire chief.
Hundreds of troops and police officers headed to northern Honduras Tuesday after at least 11 people died in two days of clashes, authorities said.
One passenger was killed when an airplane crashed in bad weather and split into two when landing early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said.
Mexico’s government must create jobs and improve education to help fight drug trafficking, the country’s senate president said in an interview with CNN en Espanol.
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