Health minister declares trapped Chilean miners strong as ’solid rock’
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The 33 miners trapped far below the surface of the Earth appear in mind and spirit to be as strong as “solid rock” and are working well together as a team, Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich said Thursday.
The Venezuelan National Assembly took up debate on Internet regulation just days after President Hugo Chavez called for online restrictions in televised remarks.
Mexican police arrested five heavily armed men and one woman near Cancun as the nation marked its bicentennial year.
A candidate for governor for the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo was detained Tuesday — accused of providing protection to two drug cartels, the country’s federal attorney general’s office said.
President Barack Obama called Monday for a new era of partnership between the United States and Latin America, acknowledging the region’s increasing importance and stability that serve as a model for the world.
Venezuela will name a government representative to the board of opposition broadcaster Globovision, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in speech Tuesday.
Eleven children from the same extended family died over the weekend in a lake in Brazil after the boat they were in overturned, police said.
The bodies of two of four miners believed trapped in a collapsed mine in southern Ecuador have been found, officials said Saturday.
Eight of the 10 Americans once detained in Haiti landed late Wednesday at Miami International Airport, according to CNN affiliate WFOR.
He comes from one of the most seductive cities on earth and makes art that demands to be touched, yet Ernesto Neto wishes the world was less sexy.
In most places, when 16 people are gunned down, the local media reports the incident without missing a beat.
A large oil drilling platform arrived Thursday at the Chilean mine where 33 trapped miners are awaiting rescue.
The mayor-elect of a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz was abducted and killed Monday, the government-run news agency reported.
A Swiss law that took effect Tuesday blocked millions of dollars held in bank accounts belonging to former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who made a stunning return to his homeland last month.
Faced with international criticism over hunger-striking dissidents, President Raul Castro on Sunday said Cuba refused to give in to blackmail and accused the United States and Europe of launching “the most ferocious” media campaign against the island nation in decades.
The sun had not risen yet on that February day in 1986 when Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s eight-vehicle motorcade of luxury cars and jeeps arrived at the Port-au-Prince airport, then named for his father.
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