Cuba’s Roman Catholic cardinal says he is in discussions with President Raul Castro to liberate some of the country’s jailed dissidents.
An international scientific panel will investigate the cause of a cholera outbreak in Haiti, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Friday.
Thousands of families living on mountain slopes or on riverbanks face extreme risk of being washed away in the heavy rains and flooding that have killed nearly 500 people in Rio de Janeiro state, authorities say.
The Brazilian government “remains highly sensitive to public claims suggesting that terrorist or extremist organizations have a presence” or are active in the country, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
Mexico’s top security official says the Sinaloa drug cartel was likely behind the kidnapping of a group of four journalists, two of whom were freed in a police rescue.
A man who became a local hero after killing three armed men while defending his Ascension, Mexico, residence during an attempted home invasion last month was killed Tuesday — and authorities are investigating whether the two incidents are related.
Costa Rica has taken its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court, repeating claims that its territory has been invaded.
Some of the families camped outside the San Jose mine, waiting for rescuers to reach 33 workers trapped underground, fear Chilean President Sebastian Pinera may be playing politics with the rescue operation in an effort to boost his popularity.
Colombian TV stations aired proof-of-life videos Monday of five hostages being held by Marxist guerrillas.
Five days after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the fear of going back inside has subsided. But the plazas and the parks are still full.
The Chihuahua attorney general’s office said Friday it is investigating whether the car in which two photojournalists were shot Thursday in northern Mexico belonged to a human-rights activist who may have been the intended target.
Mexican authorities uncovered a mass grave containing at least 17 bodies, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing federal and state officials.
Tropical Storm Paula was moving along the north coast of western Cuba on Thursday, bringing heavy rain and high winds to the island nation despite being downgraded from hurricane status, forecasters said.
A trial started Wednesday for a former Costan Rican president and eight others accused of taking bribes to award a $150 million government mobile phone contract.
Two students from the University of Texas at El Paso were shot and killed Tuesday night in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Chihuahua state investigators said late Wednesday.
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