In the latest sign of compromise between Cuba and the island’s church leaders, Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church says the government has agreed to free one jailed dissident and relocate six others to prisons closer to their homes.
After hiking along the Amazon River for more than two years, Ed Stafford is suddenly in a rush.
The parents of a 15-year-old American girl are seeking to get their daughter back after she ran away with her boyfriend to Brazil, where authorities handed her over to the boyfriend’s family.
A man who local police believe was responsible for a fatal car bombing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is in custody, a municipal police spokesman told CNN Sunday.
Guatemala’s Constitutional Court removed the country’s new attorney general Thursday night — just days after the president appointed him to the post.
The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped by 34 inmates since January, the island’s unofficial commission on human rights and national reconciliation reported Monday.
A drive-by shooting killed a Juarez, Mexico police officer and wounded two others early Friday, according to the Juarez mayor .
About a dozen or so of the 33 miners freed in Chile this week after spending more than two months underground returned Sunday to the mouth of the mine to offer thanks during a private Mass.
An intense cold front in southern Latin America continues to blanket the region, causing deaths, school and highway closures, and other woes.
Gunmen killed at least 10 people in two separate attacks in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, state media said.
As Haiti struggles to cope with the aftermath of last week’s devastating earthquake, there was a call Wednesday for a modern-day Marshall Plan to build a new nation out of the country’s ruins.
Hurricane Rick weakened to a Category 3 storm early Monday as it churned toward Mexico’s Pacific coast, forecasters said.
Tropical Depression Karl continued dissipating across southern Mexico on Saturday, but threats of flash floods and mudslides remain, forecasters said.
There’s a post-9/11 atmosphere in Kingston, Jamaica, local residents say, after a failed police assault on the stronghold of a suspected drug kingpin wanted by the United States.
Authorities in Peru have rescued the last of hundreds of travelers who had been stranded by flooding in a town near one of South America’s most popular tourist destinations, a government official said Friday.
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