Chevron filed an appeal with Ecuador’s National Court to review a ruling that it must pay billions of dollars in damages for oil pollution in the Amazon rain forest.
The International Bridge between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, was closed Wednesday because of rising water on the Rio Grande, Laredo officials said.
Small but powerful Hurricane Paula was closing in on the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Tuesday after strengthening into a hurricane earlier in the day, forecasters said.
In the first four months of this year, more than 20,000 illegal migrants boarded the “train of death” at the railhead in Arriaga, southern Mexico, according to diplomats in the region. They all had one aim: “El Norte”, the United States.
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Day 1: Resolute Bay
The top security official in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon was found shot dead and burned inside a truck, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing state officials.
Venezuelan federal authorities on Thursday dispatched their “best investigators” to track the kidnappers of Major League Baseball catcher Wilson Ramos, the country’s justice minister said.
Nestor Kirchner, the former Argentinian president who arguably remained the most potent political force in the country, died unexpectedly Wednesday of an apparent heart attack.
The eye of Hurricane Igor may pass just to the west of Bermuda late Sunday, sharply increasing the likelihood of damaging winds, forecasters said Saturday.
The top prosecutors in Mexico and Guatemala set their sights on the Zetas drug cartel Wednesday, pledging to pool information and resources as their countries battle the notoriously violent criminal group.
Voters in Venezuela headed to the polls Sunday to decide 165 seats out of 167 in the country’s National Assembly.
The attorney for Gary Giordano has petitioned a court in Aruba demanding the immediate release of the detained American.
Cuba is set to further empty its jails, adding at least another nine inmates to a list of those it plans to free, a human rights leader said Monday.
A hurricane hunter aircraft found Wednesday that Hurricane Rina had “significantly weakened,” and had become a Category 1 storm, the National Hurricane Center said.
Ophelia strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane Friday, boasting winds of 115 mph as it barreled north-northwest across the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.
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