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What was trumpeted as an expected photo-finish in last Sunday’s presidential election in Colombia turned out to be not so close, something that caught the two leading campaigns off guard, their respective candidates told CNN.
Rescue workers in Ecuador believe they are closing in on two of the four miners who were trapped underground after a part of a mine collapsed last week, the state news agency reported Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has deployed troops to areas near the Colombian border and says he is reviewing plans for a potential war as tension between the two nations rises.
The powerful earthquake that rocked Haiti “destroyed” much of Port-au-Prince, the country’s first lady reported, as the widespread devastation in the country’s teeming capital came into full view Wednesday as dawn broke.
Matthew weakened into a tropical depression Saturday but continued to drench Central America, bringing with it a threat of flash floods and mudslides, forecasters said.
Haiti’s government appeared Tuesday to have lost control of Cap Haitien, where demonstrators angry over what they see as the United Nations’ role in starting the ongoing cholera epidemic controlled many of the streets for a second consecutive day.
President Evo Morales sought Wednesday to drum up support for his move over the weekend to end subsidies on the price of gasoline, a decision that resulted in the largest gas price increase in 30 years and led to protests in some cities.
There may be light at the end of a nearly completed tunnel for the 33 men trapped since August 5 almost half a mile below ground, with rescuers expected to reach them within a day, Chile’s mining minister said Friday afternoon.
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.
This city’s drug underworld is littered with “poseurs” — lowlife triggermen pretending they’re the real hard cases.
The chief of the national police in Ecuador, Freddy Martinez, said Friday that he was resigning effectively immediately.
Fermin was a mechanic, not a coal miner, but on the morning of February 19, 2006 he had to go down into the Pasta de Conchos mine near here to fix a broken cart that couldn’t haul the coal out.
Eleven inmates died in a fight at a Mexican prison Tuesday afternoon, the public safety ministry in Durango state said.
She is coming to power holding the hand of a powerful man. Replacing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil on January 1 is 63-year-old Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to govern this South American country of more than 200 million people.
Raymond Thomas is a jolly man who laughs easily and likes to say “Forget it” a lot.
Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson has died at age 48, the government of the Caribbean island confirmed Saturday.
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