Dissidents: U.S. calls meeting with Cuban political prisoner families
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U.S. diplomats have called a meeting with relatives of Cuban political prisoners who have refused to fly to Spain as part of an agreement to win their freedom, dissidents said Monday.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on Monday castigated Venezuela for its recent record on freedom of expression in a letter sent to the country’s foreign minister.
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.
A world mesmerized by a 68-day tale of true grit expects a joyful ending Tuesday in a desolate patch of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Through the afternoon downpour a horse plods along a muddy mountain path. I can smell him almost before he rounds the bend. He’s weighed down with more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of freshly-picked marijuana.
A prison riot in northern Mexico left two inmates dead and 10 wounded, the state-run Notimex news agency said.
Some headlines are hailing her as the bravest woman in Mexico. Marisol Valles Garcia, all of 20 years old, says she’s just tired of everyone being afraid.
Colombian Sen. Javier Caceres, a former president of Congress, was arrested Tuesday for alleged links to right-wing paramilitary groups.
A suspected leader of a Mexican drug cartel was arrested in Tijuana, Mexico, along with four other alleged cartel members, the Mexican military said.
Mexican police arrested five heavily armed men and one woman near Cancun as the nation marked its bicentennial year.
Chileans gathered in a candlelight vigil early Sunday morning to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that killed 521 people and left thousands homeless in the South American nation.
Tropical Storm Matthew made landfall over Nicaragua Friday afternoon and pushed through to Honduras, bringing with it a threat of heavy rain, flash floods and mudslides.
Dilma Rousseff, who was elected as Brazil’s first female president on Sunday, once told reporters that as a typical Brazilian girl in the 1950s she dreamed of becoming a ballerina.
Spanish oil company Repsol is in “the exploration stage” of oil drilling off of Cuba’s northern coast, prompting a controversy in south Florida over fears of a potential spill.
Three teens, one a U.S. citizen, were killed in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez this weekend, a spokesman with the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office said Monday.
Canadian authorities are investigating an “unbelievable” incident in which a passenger boarded an Air Canada flight disguised as an elderly man, according to a confidential alert obtained by CNN.
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