President Michelle Bachelet toured devastated areas in central and southern Chile on Thursday, five days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 800 people.
The battle over same-sex marriage in Latin America has moved to Chile, where the nation’s Roman Catholic archbishop said this weekend such unions are an “aberration.”
Devastating floods in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state have killed more than 800 people, according to new government figures.
More than 100 people were injured, 12 of them critically, when a metal platform at a soccer stadium collapsed during a youth tournament in Lima, Peru, the state-run news agency Andina reported.
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.
The Mexican military arrested 10 people associated with the Sinaloa drug cartel after three decapitated bodies were found near Juarez, Mexico, a Mexican military operations spokesman told CNN late Wednesday.
An elite group of scientists is heading to one of the coldest places on Earth to carry out vital research on global warming.
The Venezuelan government has issued an arrest warrant against the president of one of the last independent TV stations in that country.
Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon was recuperating Tuesday from quintuple bypass open-heart surgery a day earlier, a hospital official said.
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The supply line to Haiti is clogged by airport congestion and blocked roads, forcing thousands of earthquake survivors to scrounge for food and emergency aid. But the head of the United Nations is calling for calm among the increasingly desperate populations.
Mexico has received the support of parliamentary leaders from 10 nations in opposition to Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, the Mexican Senate president said Wednesday.
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa is injecting his cachet as a newly minted Nobel Prize winner into the political sphere, in a strong criticism of the political aspirations of the daughter of a disgraced former president.
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