Chilean officials were awaiting the arrival of a main drill and other equipment to begin boring a rescue shaft in a months-long operation to reach 33 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three weeks.
The death toll from Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile has risen to 708, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is not on the ballot in this Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but he nonetheless casts a large shadow over the vote.
A strike in southern Chile over a hike in natural gas prices ended Tuesday after the federal government and city leaders reached an agreement.
In what authorities described as an ambush-style, noontime attack by armed gunmen, three police officers were killed Wednesday in downtown Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, while patrolling outside an elementary school, a municipal police spokesman told CNN.
Chilean business executive Roberto Baudrand was found dead in his Havana apartment on Tuesday, the Cuban government announced in a statement Friday.
Freed Cuban political prisoners and their families are invited to “explore their options” for possible immigration to the United States, a U.S. official told CNN on Tuesday.
Mexican marines have captured an alleged top leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, handing authorities a major victory in their fight against powerful drug organizations, the government said Sunday.
Officials are expected to distribute on Wednesday copies of a 25-minute video that the miners sent for their relatives.
Two people were killed and one more injured when gunmen opened fire at a political rally in southern Mexico on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
On the edge of Ecuador’s Amazon Basin, the Upano River gives life to a vibrant agricultural sector that keeps the economy of the southeastern city of Macas beating. Bananas, papayas and coffee are some of the foods farmed by the largely indigenous population.
Two people were confirmed dead when an airplane carrying at least 47 passengers and crew members crashed Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, but there were survivors, government and hospital officials said.
Violence against journalists in Mexico continues with impunity and has resulted in self-censorship that threatens Mexicans’ right of freedom of expression, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report released Wednesday.
The Canadian coast guard began ferrying passengers on Sunday from a cruise ship that ran aground on an unmapped rock.
Moments after Saturday morning’s earthquake in Chile, the Internet and its social networks came alive with earthquake and tsunami information.
Venezuela has asked Interpol to arrest the owner of the only TV station still openly critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez, the government announced Friday.
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