Laws must be obeyed, even if you’re the mayor of one of the largest cities in South America.
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.
Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter joined Twitter to set the record straight about an interview she did abroad, but ended up arguing with one of the communist island’s prominent dissidents online.
A popular Mexican poet who led a massive peace march in the nation’s capital last weekend says he’s chosen a new battleground for his fight for justice: Ciudad Juarez.
Tropical storm warnings were in place across large sections of the northern Caribbean early Wednesday as Emily advanced toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti, the National Hurricane Center said.
Police discovered Sunday the remains of five men discarded along the highway between Monterrey and Reynosa, in northern Mexico, Notimex reported. The state news agency said the bodies were naked, except for plastic bags.
Watches and warnings went up across the eastern Caribbean early Tuesday as Topical Storm Emily churned through the region, the National Hurricane Center said.
Paraguay’s president is expected to meet with human rights groups Sunday to clarify the effects of a law that temporarily suspends constitutional rights in the north of the country.
Ask Rosa Maria Cruz-Muller how many children she has, and she’ll answer you with a shrug. The answer is in the hundreds, perhaps thousands. The 53-year-old government employee has three biological children. The rest she rescued from the streets, took them home and gave them a new life … away from drugs, abuse and an early death.
The mayor of Piedras Negras, Mexico, and the secretary of public works and transportation in the state of Coahuila were killed in a plane crash Wednesday, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.
Brazilian rescuers intensified their search for victims in the rubble of three collapsed buildings in Rio de Janeiro Friday, though they are yet to find any survivors.
A high-level Venezuelan official wanted by Spain in connection with links to a Basque terrorist group was due to testify Wednesday in a Venezuelan court looking into his extradition, the South American nation’s top prosecutor said.
Fermin was a mechanic, not a coal miner, but on the morning of February 19, 2006 he had to go down into the Pasta de Conchos mine near here to fix a broken cart that couldn’t haul the coal out.
Chilean authorities said Friday that crews were trying to rescue at least 33 workers trapped inside a mine.
A grenade thrown by unknown attackers damaged a television station office in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday, but there were no reports of injuries, the country’s state-run Notimex agency reported.
Tensions rippled through Jamaica’s capital on Tuesday, with security forces squaring off against some residents who want to prevent the extradition of an alleged drug dealer to the United States.
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