A Venezuelan military aircraft crashed Wednesday, but the two-person flight crew parachuted to safety and there were no known fatalities, a civil protection official said.
Chile’s president said Monday that conditions must improve in the country’s mining industry, just days after 33 miners were rescued from a collapsed mineshaft at a copper mine in the country’s remote Atacama Desert.
In December 2000, Jose Guevara, a former Venezuelan intelligence agent, was introduced by his second cousin to an international fugitive, the target of an international manhunt.
Colombian authorities have issued a red alert, the highest level, for the Galeras Volcano, because a non-explosive eruption occurred early Wednesday.
A 16th person has died from burns suffered in a Sunday night arson attack on a mass transit bus in El Salvador, authorities said Friday. Two other people were shot to death in a separate attack on another bus around the same time.
The head of the Vancouver Olympics organizing committee warned that an athlete could get “badly injured or worse” almost a full year before Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a practice run at the 2010 Winter Games.
The thirty-three miners trapped underground for more than two weeks in a Chilean mine are alive and in a shelter, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said on Sunday.
Haiti’s political crisis will not be resolved until well into spring as the nation’s election panel announced a timetable for a runoff and subsequent vote tally.
The Mexican government announced Wednesday it was strengthening its security operation in the country’s drug-riven northeast by sending more soldiers and federal police to the states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
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.
An American’s cartoon showing the eagle in the Mexican flag dead in a pool of blood is drawing criticism.
American aid worker Alan Gross is set to go on trial in Cuba on Friday in a case that plunged bilateral relations to a new low.
Gunmen opened fire at two different bars in northern Mexico, killing nine people and injuring 12, Mexico’s state news agency reported Sunday, citing the attorney general’s office.
A state of emergency in Ecuador has been extended to Friday, the country’s government announced, as investigators watch videos and review photographs to identify officers involved in last week’s police uprising. It was originally set to expire Tuesday.
Gay rights advocates in Colombia planned to protest Friday after the nation’s highest court rejected a lawsuit that could have legalized gay marriage.
Eleven children from the same extended family died over the weekend in a lake in Brazil after the boat they were in overturned, police said.
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