One street in Pisco is lined with what appears to be homes, but these are facades: They are thin walls of bricks recreating fake homes, like those found on movie sets.
At least 14 inmates died Friday in a prison riot in northeastern Mexico, the state news agency reported.
There have been no reports of major damage or injuries in the wake of a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Chile, according to the country’s leader.
Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean says he has submitted the necessary paperwork to run for president of Haiti, a country he left when he was a child.
Vladimir Saint-Louis is glad to be back in business months after January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti shut down his large athletic complex in the heart of Port-au-Prince.
While the United Nations warned that protests were hampering efforts to save lives in the Haiti cholera outbreak, a leading non-profit group lashed out at organizations for what it called an “inadequate” response.
Tropical Storm Matthew battered Honduras with heavy rains and winds Friday night, bringing with it a threat of flash floods and mudslides, forecasters said.
Ten Americans charged with trafficking in Haiti defended their plan to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic, saying their intention was to get them to a temporary shelter.
Communications and supplies were flowing efficiently between rescuers and 33 trapped miners in Chile, authorities said Wednesday.
Ten Americans accused of illegally trying to take 33 children out of Haiti appeared in a preliminary hearing with a judge on Tuesday, court officials said.
A car bomb killed at least three people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the city’s mayor, Jose Reyes Ferriz, said Friday.
The death toll from the eruption of a volcano in Guatemala has risen to at least three people, an official said Friday.
Authorities launched a massive sweep of the Alemao favela complex in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday morning.
Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church on Thursday announced the names of five more prisoners to be freed who do not belong to a group of 52 jailed dissidents originally set for release.
Three suspects have been arrested in the August slaying of 12 indigenous Awa people in southwestern Colombia, the military announced Tuesday.
A group of armed men shot and injured two Mexican federal investigators Tuesday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a spokesman with the Chihuahua State Attorney General’s Office said.
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