Mexico garbage dump explosion damages 100 homes, government says
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Gas accumulation triggered by intense heat caused a garbage dump explosion Tuesday in central Mexico, damaging about 100 homes but leading to no known fatalities, the state-run news agency reported.
At least 28 people were killed and 52 injured after an oil pipeline exploded in central Mexico, the country’s state-owned oil monopoly said.
Gunmen killed at least 10 people in two separate attacks in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, state media said.
One of Mexico’s most-wanted fugitives, an original member of the violent Zetas drug cartel, has been arrested in southern Mexico, officials said Tuesday.
A state of emergency in Ecuador is scheduled to end at midnight Tuesday, the country’s government announced, as investigators watch videos and review photographs to identify officers involved in last week’s police uprising.
Mexican authorities tried to cover up the shooting death of an American who they said fled a military checkpoint, a Mexican investigation into the incident concluded.
At least 14 people were killed in 48 hours in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, including the Tuesday deaths of a municipal police officer and a newspaper vendor who police believe was targeted because of her job.
Two miners were killed and a third was injured in a dynamite explosion at a copper and gold mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert, not far from another mine where 33 miners were trapped for 69 days.
Four Americans were killed in a small plane crash in northwestern Mexico, the president of the volunteer organization Flying Samaritans said Saturday.
A car bomb exploded early Saturday on an interstate in the central state of Hidalgo, Mexico, fatally wounding a police investigator and injuring three others, according to Mexico’s attorney general’s office.
Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean told CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Thursday he is running for president of Haiti.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his months-long hunger strike Thursday after the nation’s Roman Catholic Church announced that 52 political prisoners will be released soon, his doctor and other dissidents told CNN.
A U.S. citizen was shot to death Sunday in a confrontation with the Mexican military at a checkpoint in Guerrero state, U.S. and Mexican officials said Monday.
At least 16 migrants, including a woman, were being held for ransom by human smugglers in Tijuana, Mexico, according to a migrant who was freed, authorities said late Wednesday.
Leticia Lima was buried up to her neck in mud. Her forehead was crushed and her teeth knocked out.
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