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Daniel Rouzier clutched a mahogany rosary and a pair of latex gloves in his left hand, his face covered in a sterile mask.
Colombians went to the polls Sunday in a tight presidential race that many didn’t expect would be so close just a few months ago.
Authorities believe assassins targeted a pregnant woman and two other people connected with a U.S. consulate who were killed in drive-by shootings over the weekend, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said Monday.
Decades after The Beatles first surged onto the international music stage, fans in Argentina are flocking to a new museum dedicated to the ‘Fab Four’ that opened in the country’s capital this week.
The death toll from flooding in northeastern Brazil rose to 57, civil defense officials said Tuesday.
The first of 52 political prisoners to be released in Cuba are scheduled to arrive Tuesday in Spain on two commercial flights, a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman told CNN on Monday.
Disturbances broke out Thursday on the streets of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, as national police protested the government’s cancellation of bonuses and promotions, images on the official Ecuador TV showed.
A Mexican military cargo plane crashed Wednesday on takeoff from Monterrey International Airport, killing five people, the state-run Notimex News Agency reported, citing Mexico’s secretary of defense.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon and several Cabinet members plan to make a high-profile visit Thursday to Ciudad Juarez, the bloody border city that has become a central battleground in the nation’s war on drugs.
The world’s eco-systems are at risk of “rapid degradation and collapse” according to a new United Nations report.
The Pan American Health Organization announced Tuesday it is increasing its planning to treat 400,000 cholera cases within the next year, up from a previous estimate of 270,000 over several years as a result of the outbreak in Haiti, an official said Tuesday.
Mexican authorities are still searching for 20 missing men who were reportedly abducted by gunmen while looking for a place to stay in the resort town of Acapulco, state media reported.
More than six months since the earthquake in Haiti, family dogs and pigs paw through garbage and rubble in search of food, putting them at risk of infections, abscesses and parasites, according to animal welfare groups.
Officials in Argentina’s Mendoza province have authorized chemical castration for rapists after a significant increase in sexual assaults last year.
Colombians will head to the polls Sunday to cast their votes in a runoff presidential election.
A Peruvian court has granted parole to a U.S. citizen who has been imprisoned since 1995 for aiding leftist rebels.
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