The president of a Venezuelan TV station that has been critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday at an airport on charges that he abused his right to free speech.
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?
Five Mexican states are monitoring the Gulf oil spill, Mexico’s top environment official said, according to the state-run news agency Notimex.
Hurricane Rina gained strength off the coast of Central America late Monday, kicking out maximum sustained winds of 80 mph, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported.
Bolivian President Evo Morales reinstated 17 of his 20 ministers and replaced three in a Cabinet shakeup Sunday, the state-run ABI news agency reported.
An American citizen jailed in Havana over a year ago has been charged with “acts against the independence and integrity” of Cuba and could face up to 20 years in prison, Cuban state media reported Friday.
A brazen daylight shooting in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday afternoon left four people dead and injured two others, including a 5-year-old boy, a Juarez municipal police spokesman told CNN.
Thirty one countries have abolished the death penalty but China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Yemen remain amongst the most frequent executioners, according to a new report from Amnesty International released Monday.
Torrential rain and massive floods that have been pounding Colombia this year have not let up, and dozens of people are dead amid widespread destruction, the Colombian Red Cross said Wednesday.
It was the soccer foul seen round the world — a knee to an opponent’s groin. It didn’t earn a red card and a sending off for Bolivian President Evo Morales, but it was caught on video and — and this viral world of Youtube — got him a lot of unwanted attention.
An investigation continued Monday after a subway shooting in Chile’s capital left at least three dead and four injured over the weekend.
A top Nation of Islam official arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism was released by police Friday afternoon and is demanding a formal apology, he and his lawyer there told CNN.
A “major gunbattle” between drug traffickers and Mexican federal police broke out Saturday evening in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just 30 yards from the U.S. border at El Paso, Texas, causing U.S. authorities to cordon off a section of the city, according to a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman.
Authorities in the Mexican city of Santiago have confirmed that four banners were left recently at various schools with threatening messages. The banners were anonymous, but local officials think organized crime is responsible.
While an estimated 10,000 women are victims of human trafficking in Mexico’s capital, there were only 40 investigations of the crime and three convictions in the city last year, according to a report issued this week.
Jubilation may have met the first man pulled from the collapse Chilean mine shaft, but it was the second man rescued whose image was splashed across news websites.
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