It was once a proud center of learning, a bastion of Creole language and culture. But now students say that their potential for knowledge, like so many of their classmates, is buried under the rubble of The Faculty of Applied Linguistics in Port-au-Prince Haiti.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to meet with Mexico’s foreign minister in bilateral talks Monday.
A prison riot in Venezuela left eight dead and 16 injured, the country’s penitentiary director told CNN en Español on Wednesday.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the United States of an alleged drug kingpin continued Monday, with police saying a number of people had died in an attack on the suspect’s stronghold in West Kingston.
It was reality television at its best.
Tropical Storm Tomas — which killed at least five people on St. Lucia — “could pose a significant threat” to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this week, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.
Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that the Communist Party will hold a long-delayed congress next April as the country struggles to reshape its Soviet economic model.
Marisol Valles Garcia, the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, who took office when she was just 20 years old, is in the United States, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN Monday.
Cuban state media this week expressed outrage at a rumor of the death of Fidel Castro, and even pinpointed the Twitter account they say sparked the fuss. But the account’s owner, a Spaniard named David Fernandez, says Cuba has it wrong.
Tropical Storm Ophelia was gaining strength Thursday in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of Puerto Rico and could become a hurricane in the next 24 hours, the National Hurricane Center reported.
At least 30,000 children in Mexico are involved in some sort of organized crime, according to a nationwide alliance of civic and social organizations.
Since I began exploring the ocean as a marine scientist 50 years ago, more has been learned about the ocean than during all preceding history.
As Haiti still struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake that struck 15 months ago, former President Bill Clinton is once again headed there.
As Haiti struggles to cope with the aftermath of last week’s devastating earthquake, there was a call Wednesday for a modern-day Marshall Plan to build a new nation out of the country’s ruins.
Hurricane Tomas killed six people and left a trail of destroyed homes in Haiti as it continued moving away from land Sunday.
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