Five Mexican states are monitoring the Gulf oil spill, Mexico’s top environment official said, according to the state-run news agency Notimex.
A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, killing at least 147 people and triggering tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific basin.
Haiti’s ruling party is no longer supporting its presidential candidate, whose disputed second-place finish led to violent post-election demonstrations on the streets.
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, made its own history Tuesday as its homicide rate reached 3,000 deaths for the year — 10 times the number of killings annually that the border city counted just a few years ago.
Businesses reopened Friday in the Haitian capital after the threat of heavy rain and potential flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Emily failed to materialize.
Venezuela and Colombia renewed diplomatic relations after a meeting between their heads of state in Santa Marta, Colombia.
A Rosary service and funeral were scheduled this week for Jaime Zapata, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed in Mexico last week.
Two measures that critics say will give Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez more leeway to clamp down on opposition voices were approved by the Venezuelan National Assembly.
Gunmen opened fire Saturday in a downtown bar in the tourist district of Guadalajara, Mexico, killing six people and wounding another 37, the Jalisco state prosecutor said.
Police in Jamaica have more than 500 people in custody, the government said Wednesday, after a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin resulted in violence that left dozens of people dead.
Seven Colombian national police officers were killed Sunday in an attack by suspected guerrillas in northern Colombia, defense ministry spokesman Javier Flores told CNN.
New pictures of former Cuban President Fidel Castro emerged in Venezuelan state media on Thursday in an effort to dispel rumors that the health of Castro, 85, had taken a turn for the worse.
The signal of one of Mexico’s largest television networks faded to black for almost an hour as a symbolic protest of violence against journalists.
Flamboyant carnival musician Michel Martelly edged out former Haitian first lady Mirlande Manigat in a pivotal presidential runoff vote held last month, according to preliminary results released Monday.
In the first four months of this year, more than 20,000 illegal migrants boarded the “train of death” at the railhead in Arriaga, southern Mexico, according to diplomats in the region. They all had one aim: “El Norte”, the United States.
Brazil on Wednesday suspended Chevron’s oil exploration rights in the country until it can explain the cause of a recent oil spill in deep water off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, and its response to the accident.
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