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Long lines formed under the watchful eye of American and multinational troops as a wide-scale food distribution effort reached capacity Thursday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Mexican officials announced Wednesday that they have arrested the presumed leader of a group of killers involved in this month’s shooting death — apparently carried out by mistake — of a U.S. immigration agent in Mexico.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro initially rejected a colostomy procedure when he fell ill in 2006, putting his own life at risk, according to an unnamed medical source quoted by U.S. diplomats in cables released by WikiLeaks.
For this installment of the Vice Guide to Film series, VBS co-founder Shane Smith traveled to Texas, Tijuana and Mexico City to immerse himself in the seedy, fast-paced, and vastly prolific and amusing world of films inspired by — and often funded by — Mexico’s ultraviolent drug cartels, a genre known as narco cinema.
An intense cold front in southern Latin America continues to blanket the region, causing deaths, school and highway closures, and other woes.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is scheduled to make his third visit in a little over a month Tuesday to the troubled border city of Juarez, where three people associated with the U.S. Consulate were killed over the weekend.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo underwent minor surgery Wednesday to remove a swollen lymph node from his groin, the head of state announced on his web page.
A world mesmerized by a 68-day tale of true grit expects a joyful ending Tuesday in a desolate patch of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
Fidel Castro on Friday accused the United States of “torturing” a Cuban agent imprisoned there, saying Cuba is being pressured to release its spies.
A helicopter rescued 18 people from a city in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state after rains caused devastating flooding and mudslides in the mountainous region, the country’s Air Force said.
The Venezuelan National Assembly took up debate on Internet regulation just days after President Hugo Chavez called for online restrictions in televised remarks.
The United Nations stepped up its defense Thursday of its beleaguered boss with high-level staffers speaking out in support of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Rescue workers in Ecuador believe they are closing in on two of the four miners who were trapped underground after a part of a mine collapsed last week, the state news agency reported Tuesday.
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