Haitian envoy: No contact with ministers since quake
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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.
Three human heads and three decapitated bodies with notes aimed at high government officials were found Thursday morning in different parts of Guatemala’s capital, national police said.
A day after being rescued following 69 days trapped in a collapsed mine in Chile, all 33 men were briefly together again in a room at the hospital where they have been undergoing tests — and in some cases treatment — since their rescue, a hospital official said.
Ten Americans accused of illegally trying to take children out of Haiti met with people they thought were Haitian and Dominican authorities the week before being stopped at the border, said interpreters who worked with the group.
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and sentenced to life in prison by a federal court Wednesday for human rights abuses during his rule.
An alleged gang member who police say was behind 80 percent of the killings in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, over the past 16 months, was arrested over the weekend, officials said.
Cuba is releasing two more political prisoners who will be sent straight from prison to exile in Spain, the Roman Catholic Church said Friday.
Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that the “Cuban model” no longer works, an apparent admission of failings in the communist economic model introduced by his revolution more than 50 years ago.
Chile’s mining minister expressed optimism Thursday that the 33 miners trapped since early last month 2,300 feet below ground here will be rescued in early November.
At least 30 armed men invaded a drug-treatment center in northern Mexico late Thursday night and killed 19 patients and wounded four others, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Friday.
A Colombian rebel group is expected to release two hostages Friday, according to a former senator who helped coordinate the humanitarian mission to free them.
Bruno de Souza, Flamengo’s goal keeper, turned himself in to police Wednesday for questioning related to the kidnapping and murder of a woman believed to have been the goalie’s former lover, Rio de Janeiro police said.
Two international bridges between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, were closed Wednesday because of rising water on the Rio Grande, Laredo officials said.
A missing 4-year-old Mexican girl, whose body was found under a mattress in her bedroom, died of asphyxiation, officials said.
Mexico’s ambassador to the United States said his country will do everything it can to apprehend those who shot two U.S. immigration agents this week, killing one of them.
President Evo Morales sought Wednesday to drum up support for his move over the weekend to end subsidies on the price of gasoline, a decision that resulted in the largest gas price increase in 30 years and led to protests in some cities.
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