While the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has sparked debate in America on the merits of deepwater drilling, 90 miles away Cuba’s offshore plans are quietly taking shape.
This holiday season, the Colombian military is trying a unique angle to get guerrillas to lay down their arms: It is creating Christmas trees deep in the jungle in hopes the holiday spirit will tug the rebels back home.
Brazilian rescuers intensified their search for victims in the rubble of three collapsed buildings in Rio de Janeiro Friday, though they are yet to find any survivors.
Aid agencies were scrambling Thursday to move as many people as possible into storm shelters as Tropical Storm Tomas approached Haiti with the potential to deal a disastrous blow to a nation still struggling to its feet after a devastating January earthquake.
Seven Cuban former political prisoners started new lives Tuesday in Spain, saying they see their release as the next step toward bringing democracy to their island nation.
Slashing red tape or ignoring ordinarily required paperwork, officials in the United States and the Netherlands have cleared the way for scores of Haitian orphans to leave their earthquake-ravaged homeland, according to officials from the two countries.
On the day of the funeral of a prominent social activist in Chihuahua, Mexico, a business she had ties with was burned down by a group of armed men, according to witnesses.
Vladimir Saint-Louis is glad to be back in business months after January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti shut down his large athletic complex in the heart of Port-au-Prince.
Mexico celebrates its bicentennial Wednesday, an event known as “El Grito,” the shout for independence first credited to a Catholic priest who demanded freedom from Spain. For many Mexicans today, though, it’s a quiet shout of despair.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will head back to Cuba on Saturday to undergo more medical tests, state media reported.
A special military task force is scheduled to occupy three of Rio de Janeiro’s most notorious slums on Sunday in an effort to gain control of the communities from drug gangs.
Five Cuban-American members of Congress expressed concern Friday over reports that the Obama administration is planning to announce rules loosening restrictions on travel and economic aid to Cuba. They asked the president to reconsider.
Bolivia’s president pledged that his government will build new houses for thousands of people who are homeless after a “mega-mudslide” triggered by heavy rainfall in the nation’s capital, state media reported.
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.”
Mexico will accelerate the purge of corrupt elements within its federal attorney general’s office, President Felipe Calderon said Friday, as he reaffirmed his conviction to fight the country’s drug cartels with all the nation’s might.
A new hurricane emerged Saturday in the eastern Pacific Ocean, prompting the National Hurricane Center to urge those along Mexico’s southwestern coast to track its progress as it crept toward shore.
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