Chavez still battling cancer, Spanish newspaper says
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Cancer has spread in Hugo Chavez’s colon, spine and bones, and the Venezuelan president could have only nine months to live, Spain’s ABC newspaper reported Monday, citing medical records provided by unidentified intelligence sources.
It can be an odd feeling, returning to a place you once lived. Odder still, when that place belonged to the man who trafficked you across continents.
One passenger was killed after an airplane crashed in bad weather and broke apart while attempting to land early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said.
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.
Peru declared a state of emergency in parts of the country after weeks of protests against a mining project, the Andina news agency reported.
Tropical Depression Karl continued dissipating across southern Mexico on Saturday, but threats of flash floods and mudslides remain, forecasters said.
A strong aftershock rocked Haiti on Wednesday morning just as much-needed medical aid was set to reach the earthquake-ravaged nation.
Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday proposed setting term limits for public office in a country where two brothers have ruled for more than 50 years.
The two remaining miners trapped underground in Ecuador since part of a mine collapsed last week have been found dead, the mine’s president said Wednesday.
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.
Gunmen shot dead the Sinaloa state director of Mexico’s security agency, the agency said Saturday.
The Mexican navy on Friday said it has arrested eight people in connection with two incidents in the past weeks where a total of 67 bodies were found in the coastal state of Veracruz.
Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is asking for about $7 million from the country’s government for the years she spent as a hostage of leftist rebels.
A Honduran reporter was found shot to death Tuesday in the city of San Pedro Sula, making him at least the eighth journalist killed in the country this year.
Several hundred people have died in heavy rains and flooding in Brazil, civil defense officials said Thursday.
A preschool teacher in northern Mexico was recognized for her courage after a video that went viral on the Internet showed her calmly leading the class in song as gunshots went off outside, state media reported.
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