Chocolate replaces cocaine in some areas of Peru
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Argentina’s ambassador to the United States, Hector Timerman, will become the new foreign minister, replacing Jorge Taiana, who resigned Friday, the government said.
The mother of a Cuban political prisoner who died after a prolonged hunger strike a year ago was released Saturday after being briefly detained ahead of the first anniversary of her son’s death.
The Haitian government has launched a new effort to thin out the tent cities around Port-au-Prince that are home to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by last month’s earthquake.
Venezuela’s health minister said Thursday that 37 people have been treated for cholera in the South American nation, state-run media said.
Mexican officials announced Wednesday that they have arrested the presumed leader of a group of killers involved in this month’s shooting death — apparently carried out by mistake — of a U.S. immigration agent in Mexico.
Cuban President Raul Castro told legislators Saturday that the country’s economy would undergo significant change in the coming year, but added that the measures aimed to bolster socialism — not make Cuba a capitalist nation.
Tropical Storm Hermine dumped rain on the San Antonio area Tuesday before bringing tornado watches and at least one tornado warning to central and north Texas.
Utility crews struggled early Tuesday to stem the flow from a sewage line near Arizona damaged by suspected drug smugglers who were attempting to dig a tunnel under the Mexico-U.S. border, officials said.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
Rescuers in Chile have just another 89 meters (292 feet) left to drill and are expected to break through into the area where 33 miners are trapped by Saturday, Chilean Mines Minister Laurence Golborne said Thursday.
A survivor of a massacre in Mexico that left 72 dead advised other would-be migrants to stay at home to avoid a fate like the one he and his companions met.
The 33 miners trapped inside a Chilean mine have shown their families a glimpse of what their routines are like, thanks to a video they made.
A traffic crash in Bolivia has killed eight people, police said Saturday.
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