Heavy rains, landslides kill at least 36 in Guatemala
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Torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala have killed at least 36 people, and could claim as many as 100 lives, the country’s emergency services agency said Sunday.
They filled the grounds in front of the collapsed cathedral in Haiti’s capital. To remember. To cope. To pray.
A gubernatorial candidate in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, was killed by gunfire Monday morning near Ciudad Victoria, a top government official reported.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha continued to grow Tuesday, with 152 reported killed in Guatemala, 16 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
Tomas weakened to a tropical storm Sunday and was churning in the Caribbean after pounding the island of St. Vincent with gusty winds and heavy rain, the National Hurricane Center said.
The battle over same-sex marriage in Latin America has moved to Chile, where the nation’s Roman Catholic archbishop said this weekend such unions are an “aberration.”
An empty chair will represent Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas Wednesday when the European Parliament awards him a top human rights prize.
Police in La Paz, Bolivia, fired tear gas Wednesday to disperse merchants participating in a two-day protest against a proposed law with tough sanctions for selling contraband.
The Christian Motorcyclists Association came to Haiti to distribute motorcycles to pastors. Instead, angry Haitians, some of them on motorbikes, ended up attacking the 11 American missionaries when they tried to flee this city aboard a big, yellow bus.
A photo on a Facebook page shows them dressed in black suits, white shirts and stylish ties. They’re at some sort of dinner and they look straight into the camera, their young faces full of hope and promise and that assuredness reserved for those for whom the future stretches endlessly.
In rural Guatemala, all it takes is a few minutes for tons of heavy mud to plow into a vulnerable hillside community and swallow its people and their homes.
As Tunisia adjusts to a new government, Selma Beji is cautiously optimistic about the future — and freedoms — of her fellow Tunisians.
Christopher Winfield said he tried to raise the alarm about an alleged thrill-kill cult inside the U.S. military in Afghanistan but that his calls went to voice mail and his warnings were ignored.
A young woman was found decapitated in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, late Tuesday, local officials told CNN.
Haiti’s economy is getting a boost thanks to a venture with one of Korea’s largest companies that promises to bring 20,000 garment industry jobs to a new industrial park in the north of the country.
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