Tropical Storm Agatha unleashed torrential rains over Guatemala, southeast Mexico and much of El Salvador, triggering flash floods and mud slides.
The cemetery was mazelike before the earthquake, but now it’s impossible to navigate, with many of the narrow passages blocked by rubble. It takes Vladimir Duthiers an hour to reach his destination.
A four-day transit strike that created a traffic nightmare in the Colombian capital and brought protesters into the streets was resolved Thursday, officials said.
Hurricane Ophelia weakened to a Category 2 storm as it churned toward Canada Sunday, but forecasters warned it will still bring heavy winds as it nears land.
It was the life they dreamed of and they were finally living it in the temperate mountains of Central Mexico. Eduardo Garcia Valseca, a Mexican businessman, and his American wife Jayne, had rehabilitated an old, abandoned ranch near a quaint, colonial town.
A former Uruguayan military officer suspected of participating in Argentina’s “Dirty War” was extradited from Brazil to Argentina to face charges, the state-run Agencia Brasil reported.
A small passenger plane crashed Monday into a hill outside the capital of Honduras, killing all 14 people aboard, officials said.
Officials are expected to distribute on Wednesday copies of a 25-minute video that the miners sent for their relatives.
A Guatemalan judge has ordered an American couple to give their adopted daughter back to her birth mother.
Hurricane Igor ballooned into a major Atlantic Ocean hurricane on Sunday with top winds of 135 mph (215 km/h), but remained far from land, forecasters reported.
Three brothers recuperated Thursday afternoon in a once-open field now speckled by the bright blue tarps of a cholera rehydration clinic in the Haitian town of Bercy, where an outbreak has sickened hundreds of people.
After Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Georges Nader picked up Hector Hyppolite’s oil-on-cardboard painting like a father would a wounded child. He could barely hold back his tears.
Chilean business executive Roberto Baudrand was found dead in his Havana apartment on Tuesday, the Cuban government announced in a statement Friday.
Brandon Fisher has the deep orange hue of someone who has a sunburn on top of a sunburn. The creases under his eyes are evidence of how little sleep he has had lately.
Fifteen suspects were killed Tuesday in a shootout with soldiers in the tourist town of Taxco, Mexico, the national defense secretary said in a news release.
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