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When we landed in Rio Gallegos, Argentina it didn’t take me long to spot Richard Fenton.
Efforts to rescue 33 miners trapped in Chile for nearly two months have riveted people around the world. Many have sent messages of hope and encouragement. Here are excerpts, as posted online by the Chilean Mining Ministry:
Traversing Mexico’s highways as a bus driver has always been a dangerous job, says Enrique, whose route takes him from central Mexico to Tamaulipas, on the border with the United States.
Richard Villaroel holds up a red plastic bottle cap no bigger around than two of his fingers. Three-quarters full of canned tuna or salmon — that’s how little he ate every day in the Chilean mine that caved.
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A nation of desperate and grieving people showed the fervency of their faith Saturday in this earthquake-ravaged capital.
An American school founder who young Haitian men once hailed as a savior was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing them.
A man and his 8-year-old son were shot and their car set on fire late Wednesday in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, a municipal police spokesman said.
Pascal Clemens arrived in Acapulco 17 years ago. The native of Germany who owns a real estate company in the Mexican beach resort says he immediately fell in love with the place. His original plan was to move to New York, but he couldn’t get enough of the sunny beaches, friendly people, cool breezes, and above all, the spectacular weather in Acapulco.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has a new Twitter account name — FelipeCalderon. Not terribly catchy but an improvement over his previous moniker — presidente_FC.
Brazilian officials have said they will continue to crack down on farms accused of forcing workers into slave-like conditions, the country’s labor ministry said after authorities rescued nearly 150 workers.
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.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met Tuesday with his emergency Cabinet as flooding in two northeastern states killed at least 42 people and left more than 115,000 homeless or displaced, the Agencia Brasil state news agency and civil defense officials reported.
On the job for barely three months, the new police chief of Ciudad Juarez — the globally recognized hotspot in Mexico’s drug wars — predicts bold changes in his new border home.
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