Detained Americans say they had good intentions in Haiti
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Ten Americans charged with trafficking in Haiti defended their plan to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic, saying their intention was to get them to a temporary shelter.
For months, the men waited in isolation, struggling to survive. They forced themselves to eat the flesh of dead friends to sustain themselves.
Six of the suspected gunmen responsible for the killings of 72 migrants in Mexico have been identified, Mexican authorities said Monday, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
At least 81 people were killed and several more injured in a fire that broke out after a riot at a prison in Chile, officials said Wednesday.
Five Mexican states are monitoring the Gulf oil spill, Mexico’s top environment official said, according to the state-run news agency Notimex.
Colombia laid out its case against Venezuela Thursday in front of the Organization of American States.
The confirmation of five cholera cases in Haiti’s capital is a “very worrying development,” a U.N. spokeswoman told CNN.
Two students from the University of Texas at El Paso were shot and killed Tuesday night in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Chihuahua state investigators said late Wednesday.
There have been no reports of major damage or injuries in the wake of a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, according to the country’s leader.
American-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, believed to be one of Mexico’s most ruthless drug traffickers, was captured Monday, Mexican authorities said.
Guatemala’s government has declared a state of siege and sent hundreds of troops to a northern province where officials say a Mexican drug gang is overtaking towns and threatening residents.
An American attorney representing Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier said Saturday that the former dictator returned to Haiti in hopes of recovering millions frozen in Swiss bank accounts and channeling them through a U.S. intermediary to help rebuild his troubled homeland.
A fourth earthquake in 24 hours rattled coastal Chile early Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Pediatrician Elizabeth Bellino was supposed to start work in Africa this week. Instead, she found herself trying to save lives Wednesday at a field hospital in Haiti’s capital.
Mexico saw the first public protests this weekend over the government’s decision to allow cultivation of the first genetically modified corn, which environmentalists and others say could ruin the nation’s native crop.
Gunmen opened fire on two U.S. immigration agents in Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring the other, officials said.
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