Colombian TV stations aired proof-of-life videos Monday of five hostages being held by Marxist guerrillas.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon defended his anti-drug policy on Thursday, saying he regrets that many people have died in its wake, but would not apologize for having sent federal forces into the streets to combat crime.
A Rosary service and funeral were scheduled this week for Jaime Zapata, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed in Mexico last week.
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More than 200 protesters were arrested in demonstrations across Chile on Thursday in connection with a national strike, the South American country’s government said.
Three Salvadoran gang members were arrested Monday in connection with the killing of French filmmaker Christian Poveda last June, police said.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Tuesday a high-level drug-trafficking suspect wanted in the United States will be extradited to Venezuela, which also has asked that he be turned over to authorities in that country.
About 100 people remained missing underneath a landslide in a suburb of Medellin, Colombia, a Red Cross official said Wednesday.
On the heels of a successful intervention between Colombia and Venezuela, Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said Wednesday that his country looks to become more of a regional “bridge builder” in Latin America.
Chilean authorities on Saturday arrested a 23-year-old man accused of sparking a wildfire that has consumed more than 27,000 acres of a national park, officials said.
As Tropical Storm Arlene steadily chugged toward the east-central coast of Mexico on Wednesday, Mexican authorities issued a hurricane watch that stretches from the country’s eastern municipality of Tuxpan northward to La Cruz, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Rescue operations were set to continue Thursday in Peru after a possibly overloaded ferry capsized in the Amazon River, killing at least 12 of the officially listed 152 people on board, the state-run Andina news agency reported.
A top Nation of Islam official was arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism and is being held in a Georgetown detention center, police said.
A grenade thrown by unknown attackers damaged a television station office in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday, but there were no reports of injuries, the country’s state-run Notimex agency reported.
He had grand plans on how to rebuild his broken land, but Haitian President Michel Martelly can’t even get over the first hurdle: forming a government.
A weakened Tropical Storm Tomas could re-intensify into a rare November hurricane, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
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