Freed from Haiti, missionary returns ‘with mixed emotions’
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After more than a month in a Haitian jail, an American missionary was free Monday night, looking forward to a hot shower and a long night in bed on home soil.
A tale of two Chiles began to emerge late Monday, with life starting to return to normal in Santiago, Chile, and northern parts of the country, while other areas struggled with lack of food and water and looters roaming the streets.
Officials in Brazil say they fear the death toll may rise after four days of flooding left at least 33 people dead and thousands homeless.
Rescuers searched for survivors Monday as crews sought to deliver food and water and prevent looting after the fifth strongest earthquake in some 100 years ravaged central and southern Chile.
At least 11 passengers were killed and eight others injured Sunday night when assailants set fire to a mass transit bus in San Salvador, El Salvador, police said.
Imagine you’re a 19-year-old corporal in the Colombian army when Marxist guerrillas attack your unit, kill 22 of your colleagues and capture you and 18 others.
Leftist rebels are expected to release two Colombian soldiers — one of whom has been held for 12 years — this weekend, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday.
Eight of the 10 Americans once detained in Haiti landed late Wednesday at Miami International Airport, according to CNN affiliate WFOR.
Seven people, mostly tourists, were killed Thursday when a small plane crashed in southern Peru near the famous Nazca Lines, the official Andina news agency reported, citing Nazca police.
Cuba has begun moving some of its jailed dissidents to prisons that are closer to their homes, according to Elizardo Sanchez, head of Cuba’s independent Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation.
A number of Latin American countries have rushed to offer their support to Argentina in its long-running territorial dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
A candidate for governor for the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo was detained Tuesday — accused of providing protection to two drug cartels, the country’s federal attorney general’s office said.
The Dominican consul general Wednesday rejected the claim from an American church leader that she thought her paperwork was in order when she attempted to take 33 Haitian children out of the country, saying he had told her it was not.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was meeting Tuesday morning with his emergency Cabinet as flooding in two northeastern states killed at least 40 people and left more than 100,000 homeless, the Agencia Brasil state news agency and civil defense officials reported.
In a dirt field 20 minutes outside of Leogane’s city center, desperation surfaces in the form of fear, anger, thanks. All at once.
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