Cuban migrants held for ransom in Mexico rescued, government says
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Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation’s Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.
A British navy ship abandoned and lost in Canadian Arctic waters since the mid-19th century has been found in relatively good shape at the bottom of a bay, the Canadian government says.
Tropical Storm Paula, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, has formed in the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the central coastal area of Chile on Sunday, some 70 kilometers (45 miles) northwest of Temuco, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injury.
Erasing the scars of bullets and violence is the motivation of Alberto Gonzalez Pena, the new mayor of Ciudad Mier, Mexico, a small town just across the border from Texas.
Gunmen shot and killed the mayor of the Mexican town of Guadalupe as his wife and child watched, the mayor of nearby Ciudad Juarez told CNN.
Chile’s Atacama Desert is no place to live. At night it’s a freezing moonscape and when the sun comes up it becomes as hot as a burning skillet.
A nation of desperate and grieving people showed the fervency of their faith Saturday in this earthquake-ravaged capital.
A missing 4-year-old Mexican girl, whose body was found under a mattress in her bedroom, died of asphyxiation, officials said.
Whether he’s out on the ocean monitoring stingrays in the Caribbean, or back on land painting in his studio, Guy Harvey spends all his time surrounded by fish.
Better known for affordable denim than modern art, GAP founders Don and Doris Fisher amassed a collection of over 1,000 works by artists like Andy Warhol over 35 years.
The drive into Concepcion couldn’t have been more dramatic. We turned the corner through a dense morning fog onto a main street and a small crowd moved into the streets against traffic. It’s just two days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake toppled walls and collapsed buildings, but people are looting.
As of Tueday night there were no confirmed fatalities and 11 possible missing persons as the result of a landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Gov. Ulises Ruiz told CNN.
A college student at one of Mexico’s top universities gets kidnapped. His abductors use his cell phone to text a friend: “Meet me here.”
A meeting that U.S. diplomats had requested with relatives of some Cuban political prisoners has been put on hold, dissidents said Monday.
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