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Chile’s Atacama Desert is no place to live. At night it’s a freezing moonscape and when the sun comes up it becomes as hot as a burning skillet.
The commissioner of Mexico’s National Migration Institute has resigned, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
As huge numbers of desperate Haitians struggled Friday in what could be their last hours of life, the supplies many needed remained stuck in planes, ships, and cargo holds, unable to get to them.
Once a star soccer player, Frankie Lobos loves being out on the field, in the open air.
An Organization of American States commission condemned Monday the slayings last month of three Honduran political activists opposed to a military-led coup that removed the elected president in June.
Two prominent Cuban dissidents who had refused to leave prison were released against their wishes on Saturday as the Cuban government continues to free opposition activists arrested during a notorious crackdown in 2003.
The International Bridge between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, was closed Wednesday because of rising water on the Rio Grande, Laredo officials said.
A court sentenced former Uruguayan President Juan Maria Bordaberry to 30 years in prison on Wednesday for the coup that consolidated his power in 1973 and for human rights violations.
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.
Across Mexico, young girls dream of escaping their small towns for the big cities. They dream of a good job and a better life in the United States.
Fermin was a mechanic, not a coal miner, but on the morning of February 19, 2006 he had to go down into the Pasta de Conchos mine near here to fix a broken cart that couldn’t haul the coal out.
Hundreds of Mexican federal police officers from two opposing groups clashed in Ciudad Juarez over the weekend over allegations of corruption within their ranks.
Mexico’s navy on Wednesday announced the arrests of 30 members of the Gulf drug cartel following several armed confrontations in the northern state of Tamaulipas.
Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is asking for about $7 million from the country’s government for the years she spent as a hostage of leftist rebels.
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.
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