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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.
About 300 indigenous people from eight ethnic groups have released about 300 workers who had been held hostage on the banks of the Aripuana River to protest construction of a hydroelectric dam over what they consider a holy site, Brazilian state media reported Monday.
On a visit to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, President Felipe Calderon apologized to the families of 15 people killed in a massacre last month and promised residents that their input would form part of the strategy against drug-related violence.
At least eight people have died in a cold snap in Argentina in the past several days, the nation’s state-run news agency reported.
Guatemala’s national police chief and the country’s top anti-narcotics official have been arrested in connection with the drug trade, Attorney General Amilcar Velasquez announced.
The death toll in a mudslide that buried a bus on a Guatemalan highway rose to 28 Sunday, the nation’s emergency services agency said.
A lead investigator and another official looking into the massacre of 72 migrants whose bodies were found this week in northern Mexico are missing, President Felipe Calderon said Friday.
Nervous residents in Chile’s capital woke up Sunday morning to more aftershocks, a day after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the world in decades left large swaths of their city in ruins.
The death toll climbed to 16 Monday in the attack by heavily armed gunmen at a party in Mexico early Sunday, Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.
The International Bridge between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, was closed Wednesday because of rising water on the Rio Grande, Laredo officials said.
The Haitian ambassador to the U.S. said Thursday he has not been able to contact a single minister in his government since Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in his country.
More than six months since the earthquake in Haiti, family dogs and pigs paw through garbage and rubble in search of food, putting them at risk of infections, abscesses and parasites, according to animal welfare groups.
Communities in northeastern Mexico found themselves flooded and isolated Tuesday as Mexico’s National Water Commission tried to manage high levels at area reservoirs due to Hurricane Alex.
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Four hostages rescued from Marxist guerrillas in Colombia over the weekend were reunited with their families Monday in Bogota, the nation’s capital, a broadcast on CNN affiliate Caracol TV showed.
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