“I was caught because I was an illegal,” explained a bicycle taxi driver as he gripped the rusted blue handle-bars of his vehicle in Havana’s Central Park. “And because I’d been here several times before, I was deported back.”
A crash Tuesday morning between a passenger bus and cargo truck killed six people and injured at least 20 near Mexico’s capital, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
A top Panamanian official was negotiating Friday with banana plantation strikers, one day after violent confrontations with federal troops in Bocas del Toro province left one protester dead and more than 100 injured, a government spokesman said.
At least five men were killed when attackers wielding assault rifles raided a bar in this violence-plagued Mexican border city over the weekend, authorities said.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
Cuba is releasing two more political prisoners who will be sent straight from prison to exile in Spain, the Roman Catholic Church said Friday.
The ability of oceans to soak up atmospheric carbon dioxide is being hampered by climate change, according to a new scientific study.
An operation to retrieve two Colombian hostages held by the FARC rebel group will resume Tuesday, the Red Cross said, but the government denied that it had authorized such a move.
The World Bank has canceled Haiti’s $36 million debt, the institution announced Friday.
Thousands of families living on mountain slopes or on river banks in Brazil face “extreme risk” of being washed away in heavy rains and flooding that have killed more than 400 people, authorities said Thursday.
Venezuelan state television has showed the skeletal remains of one of Hugo Chavez’s heroes as the country’s president called for an investigation into his death.
A Cuban court Tuesday commuted the sentence of the nation’s only prisoner facing the death penalty, and instead sentenced him to 30 years in prison, according to the official Cubadebate website.
An investigation continued Monday into a helicopter crash that killed six people, including prominent Mexican businessman Moises Saba Masri, the state-run Notimex news agency said.
An 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest was found stabbed to death in his church in the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, CNNMexico.com reported Thursday, citing state police.
Daisy Cuevas suddenly became an international celebrity after touching on a hot topic during Michelle Obama’s visit to her school last week.
A broad array of international donors pledged nearly $10 billion in long-term assistance to Haiti’s earthquake recovery efforts during a daylong conference at United Nations headquarters.
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