Less than a year after his predecessor was removed from power in a military-led coup, Honduran President Porfirio Lobo says he has found out that some political opponents want to overthrow him, a statement from the president’s office reported.
Two high-ranking public officials were shot and killed in Mexico late Wednesday, making for four such attacks in the past two weeks. Three of the deadly assaults happened this week.
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.
Fidel Castro announced Saturday that Cuba will send another 300 doctors and health specialists to cholera-stricken Haiti, where the communist country has maintained a strong presence even before the devastating earthquake in January.
Twenty-two Colombian guerrillas were killed Sunday in an airstrike, the country’s defense minister said.
Aruba’s general prosecutor vowed Monday that investigators will keep working “to get to the bottom” of what happened to a Maryland woman last seen in early August, even after the only person held in connection with the disappearance likely leaves the Caribbean island.
Steel tubing has begun to be placed to reinforce the path that connects the 33 miners trapped in Chile to the surface, the final step before the extraction of the miners can begin, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said Sunday.
Heavy flooding and mudslides have claimed at least 21 lives in Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez declared a state of emergency in the state of Falcon, authorities said.
Heavy rain over several days has unleashed flooding and landslides in southern Peru, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of tourists stranded in the Andes near the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu, officials said.
A former bad-boy pop star will be sworn in Saturday as the president of Haiti, taking over an impoverished nation devastated by an earthquake last year.
Ecuador is the latest country to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Chile on Sunday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered 23 miles south of Concepcion in southern Chile.
An Antarctic cruise ship was under way again Wednesday after spending a day slowed by electrical malfunctions in rough weather and crashing cold waves, the organization that promotes the southernmost cruises said.
A man suspected of conspiring with a terrorist network responsible for the deaths of five U.S. soldiers in Iraq will learn Friday if he will be granted bail by a Canadian court.
A Chilean judge requested the extradition of a retired U.S. military officer Tuesday, accusing him of involvement in the 1973 killing of an American journalist that inspired an Oscar-winning movie.
Walid Makled Garcia, accused of being one of the world’s top drug lords, was extradited from Colombia to Venezuela on Monday, Venezuelan state media said.
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