An Argentine pilot accused of participating in “death flights” during the nation’s “dirty war” in the 1970s and ’80s has been extradited from Spain and will face charges Friday, the government’s Judicial News Service reported.
The United Nations stabilization mission in Haiti condemned Tuesday violent anti-U.N. clashes that broke out the previous day in two northern Haitian cities, charging that the riots may be politically motivated.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, landed in Havana Monday for a private visit aimed at lowering tension between the Cold War enemies and seeing firsthand the economic reforms sweeping the communist island.
Two men have been arrested in Brazil for allegedly selling a weapon to the gunman who opened fire at a Rio de Janeiro school last week, killing 12 students before turning the gun on himself.
One month ago, the San Jose copper and gold mine in Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners far underground. For the next 17 days, their families had no idea whether they were alive or dead.
In the 10 weeks since an epidemic erupted in Haiti, cholera has killed more than 3,000 people — partly because the distribution of health supplies remains a logistical nightmare.
An Ecuadorian appeals court upheld an $8.6 billion ruling against oil giant Chevron stemming from claims that the company had a detrimental impact on Amazonian communities where it operated.
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A top lieutenant in a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in northern Mexico, federal police said in a statement Wednesday.
Small but powerful Hurricane Paula was closing in on the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Tuesday after strengthening into a hurricane earlier in the day, forecasters said.
Mexican authorities uncovered a mass grave containing at least 17 bodies, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing federal and state officials.
Pascal Clemens arrived in Acapulco 17 years ago. The native of Germany who owns a real estate company in the Mexican beach resort says he immediately fell in love with the place. His original plan was to move to New York, but he couldn’t get enough of the sunny beaches, friendly people, cool breezes, and above all, the spectacular weather in Acapulco.
Teams of rescuers in Haiti’s capital rushed to the city’s Caribbean Market on Tuesday after a machine used to clear rubble caused a secondary collapse, trapping at least one Haitian in the rubble.
Officials in Costa Rica worked Friday to mop up the damage after heavy rain and mud slides buried homes and killed at least 23 people in the Central American country, authorities said.
Paola Concha is openly homosexual and is not afraid to speak about her sexual orientation publicly. But the 28-year-old Ecuadorian woman says her family didn’t feel the same way.
The call came in the morning of July 30 to the offices of the Association of Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, a local organization in the province of the same name in southern Colombia. A woman asked for group’s boss and, at being asked to identify herself, threatened the person who answered the phone.
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