Aid and increased security were flowing Wednesday into hard-hit areas of Chile, but some residents complained that they still had not received food or water since Saturday’s massive earthquake killed more than 800 people.
A massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government was under way Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
U.S. diplomats on Friday called for the immediate release of an American who has been jailed in Cuba for months.
At least 106 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
A car bomb killed at least three people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the city’s mayor, Jose Reyes Ferriz, said Friday.
Jose Vega may be 70 years old but, he’s fit and wiry. He’s uncomfortable sitting still and is constantly on the move.
A third suspect has been arrested in the massacre of 15 people at a house party last month in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican official said Saturday.
Communications and supplies were flowing efficiently between rescuers and 33 trapped miners in Chile, authorities said Wednesday.
Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is asking for about $7 million from the country’s government for the years she spent as a hostage of leftist rebels.
Trinidad and Tobago made history Wednesday when it swore in Kamla Persad-Bissessar as the Caribbean nation’s first female prime minister.
About 300 indigenous people from eight ethnic groups have released about 300 workers who had been held hostage on the banks of the Aripuana River to protest construction of a hydroelectric dam over what they consider a holy site, Brazilian state media reported Monday.
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Colombian authorities have issued a red alert, the highest level, for the Galeras Volcano, because a non-explosive eruption occurred early Wednesday.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview published Tuesday.
A photo on a Facebook page shows them dressed in black suits, white shirts and stylish ties. They’re at some sort of dinner and they look straight into the camera, their young faces full of hope and promise and that assuredness reserved for those for whom the future stretches endlessly.
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