The death toll from heavy floods and mudslides in Mexico has increased to 38, a government agency announced Tuesday.
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.
Authorities in Aruba are holding a suspect in the disappearance of an American woman there, the prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Peru on Friday, leveling buildings and leaving some homeless.
Authorities in Peru have rescued the last of hundreds of travelers who had been stranded by flooding in a town near one of South America’s most popular tourist destinations, a government official said Friday.
The 33 miners trapped inside a Chilean mine since August 5 have been told “clearly,” for the first time, that they will be stranded in the mine for three to four months, given the current rescue plan timetable, Andre Sougarret, the head of the rescue operation, said Friday.
A suspect in the shooting death of a U.S. immigration agent in Mexico was detained by the Mexican military Wednesday, the country’s Defense Ministry said.
Venezuelan authorities have arrested a key ideological leader of the FARC leftist guerrilla group who is known as “The Singer” for his role as a musician promoting the rebel movement, officials said Wednesday.
A journalists’ organization has called on the Mexican government to rescue four journalists believed held hostage by a drug cartel.
A nation of desperate and grieving people showed the fervency of their faith Saturday in this earthquake-ravaged capital.
Colombia’s attorney general removed and disqualified Sen. Piedad Cordoba from the Congress for 18 years for having “promoted and collaborated” with the FARC guerrillas, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
Eight people were killed and three others were injured after a group of gunmen opened fire on a private bus in Honduras, officials said.
More than 50 years after the fact, Cuba has published the diary that Ernesto “Che” Guevara kept during the armed struggle that he waged alongside Fidel Castro from the Sierra Maestra mountains.
Mexico’s Sinaloa state has named a new target in the government’s war on organized crime: bars, restaurants and night clubs that play songs glorifying drug trafficking.
Nestor Kirchner, the former Argentinian president who arguably remained the most potent political force in the country, died unexpectedly Wednesday of an apparent heart attack.
Sixteen municipal police officers from the northeastern Mexican town of San Fernando have been arrested for allegedly protecting those responsible for the mass graves uncovered there, the country’s attorney general said.
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