The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped by 34 inmates since January, the island’s unofficial commission on human rights and national reconciliation reported Monday.
Federal authorities have arrested one of the alleged leaders of a drug cartel thought to be behind the attack and arson last August at a Monterrey casino that left 52 people dead, Mexico’s news agency reported.
The number of Mexican migrants returning to their country — mainly from the United States — has increased dramatically in the last five years compared with the previous five years.
Haiti’s former first lady will face President Rene Preval’s handpicked successor in a presidential runoff in January, the country’s Central Election Commission reported Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is pledging to run for re-election next year, dismissing speculation that cancer treatment would force him out of the political arena.
The body of Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, the mayor of the city of Santiago in Nuevo Leon state, was found Wednesday, two days after he was abducted, Mexico’s interior ministry announced.
Brazilian rescue workers dug through rubble in search of survivors Thursday morning, hours after three buildings collapsed in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro, Mayor Eduardo Paes told reporters.
A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting new misery on the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
As the players run on to the court, the excitement begins to build in the arena full of fiercely loyal basketball fans. It’s a small arena with capacity for only 1,200 people, not counting standing-room-only tickets. As the members of the team are introduced, fans jump up to cheer them on, clapping and chanting, full of team spirit. “I’ve been yelling my heart out!” says a fan who arrived early for the game.
Two fugitive brothers wanted in the much-publicized slaying of a Guatemalan lawyer last year were being held at a military base Tuesday, one day after they surrendered to authorities from a special United Nations commission, the Guatemalan Defense Ministry said.
Thousands of people were pushing for rescue efforts in Haiti to continue Sunday, after a 24-year-old man was pulled alive from the ruins on Saturday, 11 days after the nation’s devastating earthquake.
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.
An American citizen jailed in Havana over a year ago has been charged with “acts against the independence and integrity” of Cuba and could face up to 20 years in prison, Cuban state media reported Friday.
The death toll has risen to at least 1,344 in the cholera outbreak in Haiti that has sickened nearly 57,000 people, the Haitian government said Monday.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is expected to win re-election in a landslide on Sunday.
The bodies of four men kidnapped from a wedding in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, have been found in the bed of a pickup truck in the city, municipal police said Tuesday.
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