At least 27 people are dead in Jamaica’s capital amid an all-out police assault on a suspected drug lord’s stronghold, a protracted push that began Monday and persisted Tuesday, the government reported.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck Wednesday in southern Canada, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Conflicting reports emerged Tuesday about the status of one of the operations to rescue 33 workers trapped in a collapsed mine in Chile.
Journalism advocates and the U.S. government voiced opposition Wednesday to legislative moves in Venezuela that they said could lead to draconian restrictions on the news media and further strengthen the position of President Hugo Chavez.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, who has been living in exile in South Africa for seven years, has been issued a new passport to return home, the Haitian interior minister said Wednesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he might be willing to return his decree powers early, lashing out at critics who contend the move was just a blatant grab for more power.
Mario Santos likely never made it to the United States.
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s historic leader, gave his successor and younger brother Raul a vote of confidence on Sunday with praise for a speech promoting a radical overhaul of the economy and term limits for political offices.
Venezuela’s government is urging a television station to stop airing a Colombian soap opera featuring a character named “Venezuela” who has a tiny dog named “Little Hugo.”
A popular Mexican poet who led a massive peace march in the nation’s capital last weekend says he’s chosen a new battleground for his fight for justice: Ciudad Juarez.
At least 13 people, including children and adults, were killed Thursday in a school shooting in Rio de Janeiro, CNN affiliate Record TV reported, citing civil police.
Watches and warnings went up across the eastern Caribbean early Tuesday as Topical Storm Emily churned through the region, the National Hurricane Center said.
Mexican authorities have had significant successes against drug traffickers, President Felipe Calderon said in his fourth annual state-of-the-nation speech Thursday, noting that three major kingpins have been captured or killed in the past year.
Colombian authorities have proof that high-ranking leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, live in Venezuela, the Colombian government said Thursday.
I am not pretending that this is a war zone or an expedition to the outer reaches of civilization.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
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