Relief supplies were heading into Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from ships docked at a reopened pier Thursday, brought into the city on trucks traveling on a repaired gravel road leading from the port.
The family of a former Mexican presidential candidate and senator asked authorities Friday to stand back from the case to allow negotiations for his release.
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.
American artist C. Finley has taken it upon herself to perform interventions in the street. She doesn’t help addicts kick their habit, but wallpapers dumpsters, what she classes as “urban interventions”.
On the edge of Ecuador’s Amazon Basin, the Upano River gives life to a vibrant agricultural sector that keeps the economy of the southeastern city of Macas beating. Bananas, papayas and coffee are some of the foods farmed by the largely indigenous population.
The U.S. Coast Guard is sending helicopters Monday to assist the Mexican Navy in its search for the occupants of a tourist boat that capsized off Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.
Mexico’s arrest of drug cartel suspects has become fairly commonplace. On Thursday, it was six suspected members of La Familia, based in Michoacan. A day earlier, it was a man identified as a top leader of the ruthless Zetas.
Patients arrive at the front gates of St. Nicholas Hospital hunched over and groaning, only to be greeted by chaos and confusion.
Guatemala’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday filed an extradition request with Spain so that former Guatemalan interior minister Carlos Vielmann may face charges of alleged extrajudicial killings.
The two people who died Thursday night when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic were friends who had left their homes and family in Florida this week to help deliver aid to the people of Haiti, a son of one of the victims said Friday.
Venezuela has asked Interpol to arrest the owner of the only TV station still openly critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez, the government announced Friday.
In Sao Paulo’s affluent Butanta neighborhood, a green haven in the heart of the notoriously polluted megalapolis of Sao Paulo, Guilherme Amaral Nunes, 25, and partner Luiz Ramirez, 51, enjoy a brief respite from the limelight.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the United States breached international law by executing a Mexican national.
Thirty-three miners trapped underground in Chile sent a note on Sunday saying they are alive, raising hopes for the first time in the nearly three weeks since the mine collapsed, but officials cautioned it could take months to rescue the workers.
A photographer for El Diario newspaper in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, was gunned down Thursday, the paper said on its website. A second photographer was injured in the shooting.
Opponents and supporters of Venezuela’s current government have planned marches on Sunday — the anniversary of a popular revolt that overthrew dictator Marcos Perez in 1958.
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