The only thing that seemed to frighten Pedro Munoz that dark morning was that a guilty conscience would haunt him if he did nothing.
Cuba will soon free six more jailed dissidents, according to the Catholic Church, resuming its biggest release of political prisoners in more than a decade.
Mexico’s arrest of drug cartel suspects has become fairly commonplace. On Thursday, it was six suspected members of La Familia, based in Michoacan. A day earlier, it was a man identified as a top leader of the ruthless Zetas.
Nervous residents in Chile’s capital woke up Sunday morning to more aftershocks, a day after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the world in decades left large swaths of their city in ruins.
At least nine people died in shootouts over the weekend in northeastern Mexico, an area where two drug cartels have been waging a bloody war since January.
In this corner of Mexico, people don’t mention the devil by name. So if you hear the phrases “Triple X” (el Triple Equis) or “The Letter”, (La Letra) you know people are obliquely referring to the warring factions in one of Mexico’s most brutal drug war battlegrounds.
Mexican authorities have arrested a drug gang suspect in connection with dramatic shootings in Ciudad Juarez that killed 16 people, including three connected with the U.S. consulate, federal police said Friday.
A 16th person has died from burns suffered in a Sunday night arson attack on a mass transit bus in El Salvador, authorities said Friday. Two other people were shot to death in a separate attack on another bus around the same time.
I had been standing on the street with Jaime Lerner for less than one minute when a stranger stopped to greet him.
A graffiti message on a wall in Juarez, Mexico, warns of a car bombing if U.S. authorities do not look into alleged ties between Mexican federal police and drug traffickers, a police spokesman said Monday.
A tale of two Chiles began to emerge late Monday, with life starting to return to normal in Santiago, Chile, and northern parts of the country, while other areas struggled with lack of food and water and looters roaming the streets.
Juanita Castro Ruz, sister of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Cuban President Raul Castro, is undergoing radiation treatment in Miami, Florida, for lung cancer, her spokeswoman told CNN.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the central coastal area of Chile on Sunday, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Temuco, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday that Canada has paid off its share of Haiti’s debt to all international financial institutions to help the impoverished island nation recover from January’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake.
Winds and rain associated with Hurricane Igor lashed Bermuda on Sunday ahead of the storm’s arrival, forecasters said, as the island braced for a potential direct hit.
The U.N.’s human rights chief urged Mexican officials Friday to intensify their investigation into the disappearance of dozens of Central American migrants who were abducted while travelling north on a freight train.
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