An American’s cartoon showing the eagle in the Mexican flag dead in a pool of blood is drawing criticism.
Victims of the violence brought on Colombia for decades will be eligible for repatriations and, in some cases, restitution of land taken from them, thanks to a sweeping pair of laws passed by the Colombian Senate.
Irene strengthened to a hurricane early Monday as it swirled across Puerto Rico, making it the first in the Atlantic season this year, forecasters said.
A three-judge panel court on Tuesday acquitted Baltimore Orioles pitcher Alfredo Simon of charges in the shooting death of a man in his hometown.
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.
The U.S. government will be hit with a class action lawsuit on behalf of 700 Guatemalans who were infected with syphilis unless it offers a way to settle claims before Friday, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said.
Hurricane Jova carried sustained winds up to 125 mph as the storm bore down on Mexico’s Pacific coast Monday.
At least three bodies were found Saturday as the search continued for a military plane with 21 people aboard that went missing Friday off Chile’s Pacific coast, near the Juan Fernandez islands, CNN Chile reported.
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.
Hurricane Irene whipped the northern coast of the Dominican Republic early Tuesday as the slowly strengthening storm continued its march through the northern Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said.
Security forces in Jamaica plan to renew a push Monday to arrest an accused drug lord at the center of violence that has now killed 76 people, the country’s police commissioner said.
The moment I arrive at the Lighthouse I find the answer to the question that has been nagging me since we arrived — how does any one person make a difference in the face of such an enormous tragedy?
Haiti has an opportunity to address the worst crimes of its past in prosecuting former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, a leading human rights monitoring agency says.
When Jimmy Carter arrived on his last visit to Cuba in 2002, Fidel Castro himself was on the tarmac to greet the former U.S. president.
For the second time in less than week, Venezuela has announced the nationalization of a manufacturing plant, this time a privately owned steel mill.
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