Relatives describe emotions as they awaited news of Chilean miners
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One month ago, the San Jose copper and gold mine in Chile caved in, trapping 33 miners far underground. For the next 17 days, their families had no idea whether they were alive or dead.
Here are some observations four days after Tuesday’s massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital:
In case anyone questioned the permanence of Fidel Castro’s recent return to the national stage, this should answer doubts: The former Cuban leader has called the National Assembly into special session Saturday.
Rescuers in Chile expect to reach 33 trapped miners as early as mid-October — sooner than previously expected.
Argentine legislators rallied Wednesday behind President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who signed a decree a day earlier requiring all ships navigating from the South American nation to the disputed Falkland Islands to obtain a government permit.
The No. 2 leader in a Marxist guerrilla group that has been at war with the Colombian government since the 1960s has been killed in a military raid, President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday.
The battle over same-sex marriage in Latin America has moved to Chile, where the nation’s Roman Catholic archbishop said this weekend such unions are an “aberration.”
Just two days before the earthquake struck Haiti, 2007 CNN Hero Boby Duval was celebrating the completion of a wall he’d built to surround — and secure — his youth program’s athletic center in Port-au-Prince.
Eighteen people were killed in separate shootings throughout Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez on Saturday, marking it as one of the bloodiest days this year in the nation’s most violent city, officials said Sunday.
As talks at the United Nations climate summit enter their final hours, hopes of progress on key issues including the REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) program appear to be fading.
A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Costa Rica Monday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Occupants of three trucks were working together in northern Mexico trying to pull over a vehicle carrying an American missionary before one of them shot the woman in the head, police said Thursday.
Search-and-rescue efforts at a supermarket in Haiti’s capital have ended after teams determined no one else was alive beneath the rubble, an official told CNN Wednesday.
The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped by 34 inmates since January, the island’s unofficial commission on human rights and national reconciliation reported Monday.
One of a small number of women who have filled a void by becoming police chiefs in violence-torn Mexico was gunned down Monday, authorities said.
Officials working to free 33 trapped miners in northern Chile denied Thursday they are under political orders to rescue the men ahead of President Sebastian Pinera’s planned mid-month trip to Europe.
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