Cold temperatures cause death, damage in South America
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An intense cold front in southern Latin America continues to blanket the region, causing deaths, school and highway closures, and other woes.
A guard has been killed at a Mexican prison where authorities say the warden let out inmates nightly to commit drug-related slayings, the state-run news agency said.
The permanent council of the Organization of American States has approved a resolution asking troops to withdraw from the disputed border area between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Heavy rain over several days has unleashed flooding and landslides in southern Peru, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of tourists stranded in the Andes near the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, officials said.
Police discovered Sunday the remains of five men discarded along the highway between Monterrey and Reynosa, in northern Mexico, Notimex reported. The state news agency said the bodies were naked, except for plastic bags.
More than 3,500 people took refuge in 19 Veracruz state shelters and school classes were canceled Monday in 11 municipalities after flooding caused by Hurricane Karl, which made landfall Friday in southeastern Mexico, the government-run news agency said.
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An accused teen hit man has been detained in Mexico, authorities said Friday.
At least 19 people were killed in the central Mexican state of Queretaro on Monday when a bus crashed into a dump truck, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing local officials.
Bolivian President Evo Morales on Thursday defended his decision to end fuel subsidies, a move that caused gasoline and diesel prices to spike and led to protests in major cities since it was announced over the weekend.
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook Cuba on Saturday.
A spokesman for Colombia’s president says the country has never had any intention of attacking Venezuela.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will meet with Chilean President Michele Bachelet and her successor on Friday, to reassure the earthquake-battered nation of the international commitment to aid.
Haiti reported more cholera deaths Wednesday as chaos reigned in this country’s second-largest city and cases among people who had traveled from Haiti were reported in Florida and across the island in the Dominican Republic.
Biologists suspect that unusually cold waters off the coast of Brazil were responsible for the deaths of more than 550 penguins that washed up on shore in the past 10 days.
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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