Experts are examining the exhumed remains of men who fought for Mexico’s independence as part of the country’s bicentennial celebration.
At least 19 people died and 23 were injured in a Tuesday morning crash between a truck and a bus on a highway near Chile’s capital, officials said.
Homicides in Ciudad Juarez have dropped about 60 percent over the past year, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Friday during a visit to that border city.
Until death do us part. That’s what generations of couples have vowed at the altar. But a legislator in Mexico City wants to give them a much shorter option.
Victims of the violence brought on Colombia for decades will be eligible for repatriations and, in some cases, restitution of land taken from them, thanks to a sweeping pair of laws passed by the Colombian Senate.
When Jimmy Carter arrived on his last visit to Cuba in 2002, Fidel Castro himself was on the tarmac to greet the former U.S. president.
Three men arrested as suspects in a homegrown Canadian terror group “are not card-carrying members of al Qaeda, but they follow in the movement and show common trends,” a Canadian government source close to the ongoing terror investigation told CNN on Friday.
Trapped beneath his collapsed home in Port-au-Prince, rescuers had to amputate Georges Exantus’ right leg in order to free him.
A US Airways flight attendant was found dead in his hotel room in Mexico City, company spokeswoman Tina Swail said Saturday.
Former Argentine dictator Gen. Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for crimes against humanity at a clandestine detention center during his rule. He was already serving a 25-year sentence from a previous trial.
A military plane with 21 people aboard went missing off Chile’s Pacific coast near the Juan Fernandez islands, authorities said on Friday.
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo can be extradited to the United States to face money laundering charges, judges in Guatemala ruled unanimously.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
The Ecuadorian government on Tuesday declared the U.S. ambassador in that country, Heather Hodges, persona non grata and asked her to leave as soon as possible, the state-run Andes news agency reported. The decision was based on a State Department cable made public by WikiLeaks, it said.
Hurricane Jova was not as damaging as other storms have been, but for small Mexican villages, it was hardly benign.
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