Despite concerns of attacks against freedom of the press and opposition politicians, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defended his track record as leader of the South American country in an interview with CNN en Español.
As state authorities in Mexico asked federal prosecutors to take over the case of a 14-year-old accused of working as a drug-cartel hit man, the head of a children’s rights organization criticized authorities’ handling of the teen’s detention.
Five police officers and a transit worker have been arrested in the abduction and killing of a mayor this week in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, the state’s governor, Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, announced Friday.
The sun had not risen yet on that February day in 1986 when Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s eight-vehicle motorcade of luxury cars and jeeps arrived at the Port-au-Prince airport, then named for his father.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves Cuba for Ecuador on Thursday, on the final stop of his five-day Latin American tour.
The steeple clock at Port-au-Prince’s St. Pierre Catholic Church is stopped at 4:53, the hour at which a devastating earthquake struck Haiti nearly one week ago.
Tropical Storm Arlene picked speed as it set its eye for a Thursday morning landfall along Mexico’s eastern coast, the National Hurricane Center reported.
One of the seven missing oil workers found alive in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend has died, Geokinetics, a Texas-based geophysical service company, said on Monday.
A tropical storm formed in the Caribbean Friday and is expected to move across the coast of Belize Saturday afternoon or night.
Sebastian Pinera was sworn in Thursday as president of Chile, taking over a country battered by a recent earthquake but with a strong economy and stable social institutions.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha continued to grow Tuesday, with 152 reported killed in Guatemala, 16 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
Colombia’s main leftist rebel group shot and killed four hostages held for more than a decade, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday, vowing to fight the rebels with everything in reach.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Saturday that he was hours away from a third phase of chemotherapy, state media reported.
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Seven Colombian national police officers were killed Sunday in an attack by suspected guerrillas in northern Colombia, defense ministry spokesman Javier Flores told CNN.
Rescue workers in Ecuador believe they are closing in on two of the four miners who were trapped underground after a part of a mine collapsed last week, the state news agency reported Tuesday.
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