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.
Argentina’s ambassador to the United States, Hector Timerman, will become the new foreign minister, replacing Jorge Taiana, who resigned Friday, the government said.
Richard Villaroel holds up a red plastic bottle cap no bigger around than two of his fingers. Three-quarters full of canned tuna or salmon — that’s how little he ate every day in the Chilean mine that caved.
Like cholera itself, Haiti’s protests against the United Nations spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, as angry people took to the streets on Thursday, demanding the global body get out of their country.
Child slavery has escalated six months after a devastating earthquake demolished the Haitian capital and left a generation of orphans, according to an advocate who works in the Caribbean nation.
Blind violinist Romel Joseph laid in what he called his “grave” for 18 hours.
Eduardo Ravani Jr. was photographing a wedding reception early Saturday at Las Terrazas dela Reina on the hills overlooking Santiago, Chile, when the party disc jockey told him: “Hey, I think the building is moving.”
The shooting death of a Mexican journalist last week was not due to his work but was related to a “personal problem,” a Chihuahua state attorney’s office spokesman said Monday.
One passenger was killed after an airplane crashed in bad weather and broke apart while attempting to land early Monday on the island of San Andres, Colombia, officials said.
It’s 7:55 a.m. and miner Javier Avarca arrives in the early morning chill to the San Jose mine in Chile to begin a 12-hour shift.
Six miners were killed and two were injured in an accident at an illegal gold mine in eastern Venezuela, the country’s minister of basic industry and mines said Tuesday.
An oil drill that rescuers are using to reach the trapped miners in Chile could provide a faster solution than the other two methods they have employed.
The first time I heard anything about people living in the sewers in Colombia was back at the beginning of the ’90s. The sewage system running under Bogota’s streets was filled with packs of kids living waist-deep in human waste and taking in copious amounts of glue and crack in order to cope.
Countries and aid groups large and small worked Thursday to help survivors in quake-ravaged Haiti in an international effort rivaling the response to the 2004 Asian tsunami.
A top Panamanian official was negotiating Friday with banana plantation strikers, one day after violent confrontations with federal troops in Bocas del Toro province left one protester dead and more than 100 injured, a government spokesman said.
The United Kingdom has “no doubt” about its sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, a British government minister said Tuesday.
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