The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has been asked to investigate whether Panama tortured an Ecuadorian citizen who was being held as an illegal immigrant, an official hemispheric human rights organization said.
A former U.S. congressman was among a group of American attorneys accompanying former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier as he spoke in the country’s capital Friday.
A five-hour shootout between Mexican navy fighters and alleged members of the “Zetas” cartel left 15 people dead and several wounded, the official Notimex news agency reported Friday.
A Colombian rebel group is expected to release three hostages Sunday — one more than previously announced — according to a former senator who helped coordinate the humanitarian mission to free them.
A bus traveling south of Ecuador’s capital lost control Sunday, killing 42 people and injuring 11 others, officials said.
Jamaican authorities declared a state of emergency in Kingston after gang members supportive of an alleged drug lord wanted by the United States attacked police stations and blockaded a large swath of the city.
The toll climbed to more than 50 people killed in Monday’s ambush on a Mexican federal police convoy and an unrelated prison uprising, authorities said Tuesday.
Hurricane Karl made landfall in Mexico Friday while Igor, its partner in power, moved toward Bermuda, which is bracing for the worst when it strikes late Sunday.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha is growing, with 123 reported killed in Guatemala, 17 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
Mexico’s ruling National Action Party has picked a former congresswoman as its presidential candidate. If she wins, she will become the country’s first female president.
Brazil’s environment minister has declared a state of emergency in 14 states and the capital’s federal district because of a large number of fires, the government’s Agencia Brazil news outlet reported Wednesday.
It was just before Christmas when Michel Martelly mulled over events in his troubled land and concluded that everything had been done to ensure loss for him at the polls.
Heavy rains and flooding in Brazil have caused 260 deaths in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, CNN affiliate TV Record reported Wednesday.
Three days after police officers protesting a new law physically attacked Ecuador’s president and allegedly held him at a hospital for hours, the country’s interior minister says the government remains convinced that the uprising was an attempted coup.
A Brazilian agricultural company has been fined $2.8 million for employing 180 slave laborers, among them adolescents, the government-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported Wednesday.
Authorities have opened a murder investigation after the discovery of 13 bodies Sunday in an abandoned truck in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the attorney general’s office reported.
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