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.
Climate change is altering diets and lifestyles among Inuit people, according to a scientist who has studied the human face of global warming in the Arctic.
American artist C. Finley has taken it upon herself to perform interventions in the street. She doesn’t help addicts kick their habit, but wallpapers dumpsters, what she classes as “urban interventions”.
On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city, and large stretches of surrounding countryside, were devastated.
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Haiti’s former dictator, returned unexpectedly Sunday to the country after some 25 years in exile.
Mexican federal authorities say they have arrested a major trafficker of animals in danger of extinction and confiscated 196 birds and other wildlife.
Authorities in the northern Mexican city of Torreon said Saturday that they found 10 “mutilated” bodies inside the back of a truck, the state-run news agency reported.
Guatemalans voted Sunday in a presidential election that could put a retired army general in power.
Hate crimes from beatings to murders are rising in Honduras but investigations and prosecutions are rare with few victims receiving help, according to the gay community.
The cemetery was mazelike before the earthquake, but now it’s impossible to navigate, with many of the narrow passages blocked by rubble. It takes Vladimir Duthiers an hour to reach his destination.
Marianela Galli waited 34 years for the men who killed her family to be punished. On Wednesday night, inside a packed courtroom in downtown Buenos Aires, she learned their fates.
Prince William and his wife Catherine will make the northernmost stops of their Canadian tour Tuesday when they visit sites in the Northwest Territories.
News stories saying authorities thwarted a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Mexico are not true, the Mexican secretary of the navy said Tuesday.
Eleven more bodies were found in the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz Thursday, days after 35 bodies were found on a busy road in the same area, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
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