Mexico’s government will present a new strategy for preventing the kidnapping of migrants Tuesday, the nation’s interior ministry said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has declared a state of emergency for the South American nation’s electricity supply and announced a series of billing sanctions and rewards based on a customer’s energy use.
After weakening to a Category 1 storm, Hurricane Rina plodded westward Wednesday evening at 6 mph (9 kph) on a path toward Mexico’s tourist beaches, its threat a real one to people on the Yucatan Peninsula but far diminished from what it had been earlier in the day.
Thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet (701 meters) below ground in Chile are depending on food, medicine and supplies being dropped to them through a 4-inch-wide tube.
Disturbances broke out Thursday on the streets of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, as national police protested the government’s cancellation of bonuses and promotions, images on the official Ecuador TV showed.
Mexico celebrates its bicentennial Wednesday, an event known as “El Grito,” the shout for independence first credited to a Catholic priest who demanded freedom from Spain. For many Mexicans today, though, it’s a quiet shout of despair.
Brazilian federal prosecutors have filed a suit against Chevron and oil rig operator Transocean Ltd for 20 billion reais, about $11 billion, in response to an oil spill in deep water off the coast of Rio de Janeiro last month.
The Ecuadorian government on Tuesday declared the U.S. ambassador in that country, Heather Hodges, persona non grata and asked her to leave as soon as possible, the state-run Andes news agency reported. The decision was based on a State Department cable made public by WikiLeaks, it said.
Category 2 Hurricane Karl headed toward the Mexican coast with 100 mph (160 kph) winds with higher gusts and could become an intense Category 3, the National Hurricane Center said.
With his ribs showing and his skin practically hanging off him, Pierre Wisny is painfully thin.
The bodies of four men kidnapped from a wedding in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, have been found in the bed of a pickup truck in the city, municipal police said Tuesday.
A number of Latin American countries have rushed to offer their support to Argentina in its long-running territorial dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.
Officials in a northern Mexican city plagued by violence say a new course will take a fresh approach toward protecting citizens: Training people to handle and shoot guns.
The trial of U.S. government contractor Alan Gross, accused of trying to destabilize the Cuban government, ended Saturday, but no verdict was immediately given.
Rescuers will use machines Sunday to try to reach 33 workers trapped in a caved-in mine, emergency officials said.
Sizing up the magnitude of Mexico’s obesity problem is as simple as visiting a clothing manufacturer. At Arush, a clothing factory in Mexico City, the changing demand has modified production. Buyers, including Mexican giant retailers like Soriana and Liverpool, are increasingly asking for “large” and “extra large” sizes, which have all but replaced production of “small” and “medium.”
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