The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Haiti has risen to more than 150 confirmed deaths, according to health officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Two miners were killed and a third was injured in a dynamite explosion at a copper and gold mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert, not far from another mine where 33 miners were trapped for 69 days.
Some of the families camped outside the San Jose mine, waiting for rescuers to reach 33 workers trapped underground, fear Chilean President Sebastian Pinera may be playing politics with the rescue operation in an effort to boost his popularity.
Drilling has begun as part of an effort to reach the 33 miners who have been trapped underground in Chile for more than three weeks, authorities said Tuesday.
Ten Americans accused of illegally trying to take children out of Haiti met with people they thought were a Haitian policeman and a Dominican official the week before being stopped at the border, said interpreters who worked with the group.
A leader of the Gulf drug cartel — Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, also known as “Tony the Storm” — died during a clash with security forces in the border city of Matamoros, Alejandro Poire, security spokesman for the Mexican government, said Friday.
For one trapped miner in a collapsed mine in Chile, “Hope” weighs only 7 pounds.
Hurricane Richard weakened to a tropical storm over northwestern Guatemala early Monday as it pelted at least four Latin American nations with heavy winds and rains, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Even as much of Haiti struggles to recover from last year’s devastating earthquake, scientists have found some survivors who are coming back from the edge.
More than half of the passengers survived after an airplane crashed Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, government officials said.
President Hugo Chavez’s ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela won the most seats in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but lost the supermajority that has allowed for quick passage of many of Chavez’s programs and controversial measures.
Peru’s president says Yale University has agreed to return artifacts to the South American country — a move that could end a lengthy dispute over relics excavated nearly a century ago.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos declared a state of calamity in 28 of the nation’s 32 states Thursday due to heavy rains and flooding that have affected 1.2 million people.
They delay televised football matches in Brazil and have even brought forward prayer meetings where they are watched abroad.
A weapon that was used in the fatal attack on a U.S. immigration agent in Mexico originated in the United States, Mexico’s state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing a U.S. official.
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