Authorities in Peru have rescued the last of hundreds of travelers who had been stranded by flooding in a town near one of South America’s most popular tourist destinations, a government official said Friday.
The apparently strangled bodies of two women who worked for a weekly newsmagazine in Mexico City were found Thursday morning in a suburb south of the city, officials said.
The mother of three Mexicans jailed in Malaysia for allegedly manufacturing drugs is pleading for authorities to intervene in their case. They face death by hanging if convicted.
Alejandro Robaina, considered a legend among Cuban tobacco growers, died Saturday, according to Cuban cigar company Habanos S.A., which produced cigars named for him.
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A team with Los Angeles County Search and Rescue answered Saturday the desperate, but futile, pleas of a mother who believed her young daughter was trapped alive beneath the rubble of a day care center in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix, one of the leaders of the major Tijuana cartel, was extradited to the United States on Friday, Mexico’s attorney general’s office said.
His fate uncertain, Manuel Noriega is being returned Sunday to Panama, nearly 22 years after the former dictator was forcibly removed from office by U.S. forces.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in his home country from Cuba, where he underwent cancer treatment, the Venezuelan state-run broadcaster VTV reported Saturday.
In the latest sign of compromise between Cuba and the island’s church leaders, Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church says the government has agreed to free one jailed dissident and relocate six others to prisons closer to their homes.
Better known for affordable denim than modern art, GAP founders Don and Doris Fisher amassed a collection of over 1,000 works by artists like Andy Warhol over 35 years.
Preliminary vote tallies Monday showed left-leaning Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega with a significant lead in the nation’s elections.
Mexican authorities announced Saturday the arrest of a drug kingpin — nicknamed “El Kilo” — based in the country’s northeast and suspected of having links to the mass graves recently found in the region.
Mexico’s ambassador to Venezuela and his wife were freed early Monday after armed men kidnapped them and held them hostage for hours, officials said.
Cuba’s highest court upheld the 15-year sentence imposed on American contractor Alan Gross for trying to set up illegal Internet connections on the island, Cuba’s state media reported on Friday.
Three brothers recuperated Thursday afternoon in a once-open field now speckled by the bright blue tarps of a cholera rehydration clinic in the Haitian town of Bercy, where an outbreak has sickened hundreds of people.
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