A Guatemalan judge has ordered the country’s former dictator to stand trial on charges that he was responsible for atrocities committed during his rule.
The State Department told U.S. government employees in Monterrey, Mexico, on Friday to send their children elsewhere because of heightened security risks related to drug violence.
Security forces were burning the bodies of the dead this week in a Jamaican neighborhood ravaged by a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin, according to residents, who said their entire neighborhood had been a war zone.
Costa Rica will take its border dispute with Nicaragua to the United Nations and the International Court of Justice if a resolution is not found between them, Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla said Wednesday.
A statement from al Qaeda on Friday marking the death of Osama bin Laden included renewed warnings of terrorist attacks against U.S. interests around the world and suggested that a process to choose his successor is already under way.
Mexico’s Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a law allowing for adoption by gay couples in Mexico City is legal.
The Dominican Republic issued a hurricane warning for its southern coast as the Tropical Storm Irene spins west, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday.
Hurricane Jova weakened slightly as the powerful Category 3 storm closed in on Mexico’s Pacific coast, packing 120 mph winds.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the United States of an alleged drug kingpin continued Monday, with police saying a number of people had died in an attack on the suspect’s stronghold in West Kingston.
A pair of earthquakes rattled coastal Chile overnight, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Four people died and 22 remained missing after the collapse of three buildings in the historic center of Rio de Janeiro, Mayor Eduardo Paes said Thursday, according to CNN affiliate TV Record.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has been diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer affecting the immune system, Health Minister Esperanza Martinez said Friday in a news conference.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that he is breaking off relations with Colombia. His decision comes as the Organization of American States meets to discuss Colombian claims that Venezuela is protecting FARC and ELN rebels in its territory.
Mexican authorities issued a hurricane warning along parts of the country’s eastern coast Wednesday as Tropical Storm Arlene approached, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Brazilian firemen on Thursday said they had brought a large fire in a Sao Paulo shantytown under control after 37 trucks and 120 men were rushed to the area in the center of the city.
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