The bodies of at least 20 people were found in various sectors of the municipality of Ciudad Madero, Mexico, south of Tamaulipas, state news agency Notimex reported Friday.
Venezuela will nationalize the exploration and mining of gold in the country, President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday.
Rogue national police who held Ecuador’s president captive for 11 hours last week talked about killing him, according to an audio recording the state-run Andes news agency said were police radio transmissions.
The death toll has risen to at least 1,344 in the cholera outbreak in Haiti that has sickened nearly 57,000 people, the Haitian government said Monday.
At least 19 people died and 23 were injured in a Tuesday morning crash between a truck and a bus on a highway near Chile’s capital, officials said.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared on the island’s state-run television for the second time in less than a week on Friday, using the forum to again blast U.S. foreign policy and warn against nuclear war in the Middle East.
The deadly cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 1,100 lives in Haiti has now spread to yet another vulnerable community: the largest prison in the country.
About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday.
In patches across the Haitian capital, many earthquake survivors are not waiting for an international clearing and rebuilding effort to begin. They are pulling out shovels, wood and cement to slowly repair and rebuild themselves.
Wyclef Jean will announce exclusively on CNN’s “Larry King Live” Thursday night that he intends to run for president of Haiti, a source close to the Haitian recording artist said Tuesday.
Once one of Central America’s most notorious military strongmen, former Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker Manuel Noriega has been a prisoner since being toppled from power in 1990 in a U.S. invasion.
A former minister of disgraced Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who had been in hiding for 10 years, turned himself in to authorities, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
An independent study of global temperature records has reaffirmed previous conclusions by climate scientists that global warming is real.
Bolivia’s president pledged that his government will build new houses for thousands of people who are homeless after a “mega-mudslide” triggered by heavy rainfall in the nation’s capital, state media reported.
Venezuela will name a government representative to the board of opposition broadcaster Globovision, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in speech Tuesday.
The United States and Venezuela don’t agree on many foreign policy issues, but both countries say a newspaper report claiming that Iran is building a missile base in the South American nation is not credible.
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