From disaster — comes something good.
The Shining Path, the Maoist terrorist group that wreaked havoc in Peru in the 1980s, has admitted defeat and seeks to negotiate an end to its war with the government, one of the group’s top leaders told a nongovernmental organization.
Investigators in Mexico say they have arrested a security chief for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, an alleged drug kingpin who is wanted by both Mexican and U.S. authorities.
Now that 33 miners who have been trapped in the earth for 19 days have been found alive, the focus is shifting to their physical and mental health as they face a potentially long period before being rescued.
With no heir-apparent to Venezuela’s presidency waiting in the wings, politicians are jockeying for power as President Hugo Chavez undergoes medical treatment in Cuba, analysts said.
On the eve of a meeting of Mexico´s top prosecutors and judicial officials in Veracruz state, authorities Wednesday were still trying to determine who left 35 bodies in a busy thoroughfare there — and why.
The Booker Prize-winning author of “Life of Pi,” Yann Martel is one of Canada’s most recognized and outspoken writers.
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.
Search teams have recovered the last of 14 workers killed in an explosion at a mine in northern Mexico, the country’s labor secretary said Sunday morning.
Relief supplies were heading into Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from ships docked at a reopened pier Thursday, brought into the city on trucks traveling on a repaired gravel road leading from the port.
Colombia’s president says devastating flooding forced him to cancel his scheduled trip to the United Nations’ climate change conference this week — even though global warming itself could be causing the disaster his country faces.
An official with the justice department in Mexico’s Chihuahua state was killed Monday morning in Ciudad Juarez while on his way to work, a federal police spokesman told CNN.
At least 60 people have been charged in connection with one of Canada’s largest ever pornography busts, authorities said Thursday.
The toll from torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala moved higher Monday, with disaster officials reporting 44 dead, 56 injured and 16 missing.
Aid agencies are scrambling to respond to a resurgence of cholera cases in Haiti triggered by heavy rain.
Authorities in the Mexican north-central state of Durango have confirmed the discovery of 26 bodies in a mass grave. According to the Durango State’s Attorney’s Office, the bodies were found in a residential area in the capital city of the same name.
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