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Paraguay’s president is expected to meet with human rights groups Sunday to clarify the effects of a law that temporarily suspends constitutional rights in the north of the country.
At least 106 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
A top drug cartel leader may have been killed in clashes with police this week, a Mexican government spokesman said.
The Colombian Constitutional Court ruled Friday against holding a referendum that could have cleared the way for President Alvaro Uribe to run for a third consecutive term.
The Colombian military on Sunday rescued Gen. Luis Mendieta and Col. Enrique Murillo, two top national police officers held by the FARC guerrillas for nearly 12 years, President Alvaro Uribe announced.
Two fugitive brothers wanted in the much-publicized slaying of a Guatemalan lawyer last year were being held at a military base Tuesday, one day after they surrendered to authorities from a special United Nations commission, the Guatemalan Defense Ministry said.
Tests of the hole through which rescuers hope to hoist 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile below the surface of the Earth have proved “very promising, very positive,” Chile’s mining minister said Monday, adding that the rescue is expected to begin Wednesday, and possibly earlier.
Mexico saw the first public protests this weekend over the government’s decision to allow cultivation of the first genetically modified corn, which environmentalists and others say could ruin the nation’s native crop.
A man who local police believe was responsible for a fatal car bombing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is in custody, a municipal police spokesman told CNN Sunday.
The hurricane known as Igor is getting brawnier, with winds up to 80 mph (130 kph) as it continues moving across the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said Sunday.
Peruvian government authorities confirm that Joran van der Sloot has confessed to the murder of Stephany Flores Ramirez.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has deployed troops to areas near the Colombian border and says he is reviewing plans for a potential war as tension between the two nations rises.
The Virgin Islands returned Saturday to their customary travel poster status, but a closer look beneath the sunshine and palm trees showed mud-caked roads, displaced boats and a resort socked by Tropical Storm Otto.
Canadian authorities are investigating an “unbelievable” incident in which a passenger boarded an Air Canada flight disguised as an elderly man, according to a confidential alert obtained by CNN.
On the first day of school after the earthquake, Medlika Rameau told her classmates about how she was trapped in the rubble of her house with her mother and little sister.
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