Mexican massacre survivor returned to Ecuador, officials say
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The sole survivor in last week’s massacre of 72 Central and South American migrants in northern Mexico has been released from a hospital and returned to his native Ecuador, Mexican officials said Monday.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the U.S. of a suspected drug kingpin continued Monday, with shots fired at police officers as they sought to clear roads in Kingston, police said.
One phone call brought the 41-year-old memory back to George Hopkins instantly, flooding him with the terror of having a .38-caliber pistol jabbed into his face.
Tropical Storm Richard is moving steadily toward the Bay Islands of Honduras, bringing strong winds and heavy rains to the popular tourism destination, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said early Sunday.
Authorities were working to determine Saturday what caused a helicopter crash that killed nine people in southeastern Mexico.
The death toll attributed to Hurricane Tomas, which swept through the West Indies island of St. Lucia last weekend, rose Tuesday to 12 and Prime Minister Stephenson King issued a declaration of disaster.
The editor and owner of a Venezuela newspaper under investigation by the government of President Hugo Chavez defended the editorial decision to publish a graphic photo that spurred the inquiry.
Lava and ash from Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano forced the closure of Guayaquil Airport until Saturday afternoon, an airport spokesman said Friday.
Ecuador is the latest country to recognize an independent Palestinian state.
A gunman clashed with soldiers in three separate incidents in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, leaving 13 people dead, the state news agency reported Saturday.
The 33 miners trapped inside a Chilean mine since August 5 have been told for the first time that they could be stuck underground for as long as four months, the head of the rescue operation said Friday.
Six miners were killed and two were injured in an accident at an illegal gold mine in eastern Venezuela, the country’s minister of basic industry and mines said Tuesday.
Once it clears the Yucatan Peninsula, Tropical Storm Karl could emerge in the Bay of Campeche and became a hurricane by Friday, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday evening.
After 69 days and a cost as high as $20 million, 33 miners have finally been extracted from the bowels of the earth. To roaring applause, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera placed a metal cap on top of the rescue hole early Thursday morning — and marked the end of a rescue operation that captivated the globe.
Venezuela will name a government representative to the board of opposition broadcaster Globovision, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in speech Tuesday.
In a rare interview, Fidel Castro gives new details about his health four years ago when emergency surgery forced him out of power, saying he didn’t think he would make it and still has difficulty walking.
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