An Organization of American States commission condemned Monday the slayings last month of three Honduran political activists opposed to a military-led coup that removed the elected president in June.
Ten Mexican nationals have been charged with last year’s killings of three Americans connected to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez, Mexico, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday.
The 33 miners trapped inside a Chilean mine since August 5 have been told “clearly,” for the first time, that they will be stranded in the mine for three to four months, given the current rescue plan timetable, Andre Sougarret, the head of the rescue operation, said Friday.
The Chihuahua attorney general’s office said Friday it is investigating whether the car in which two photojournalists were shot Thursday in northern Mexico belonged to a human-rights activist who may have been the intended target.
Teodoro “El Teo” Garcia Simental, one of Mexico’s most wanted drug traffickers, was arrested Tuesday, Mexican and U.S. authorities said.
In a rare attack against factory workers, gunmen in Mexico shot three trucks carrying a company’s workers, killing five and injuring 14 others, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing local police.
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Haiti’s former dictator, returned unexpectedly Sunday to the country after some 25 years in exile.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile early Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
State and federal authorities in Mexico traded barbs over the escape of 141 inmates from a border city prison as police stepped up security and searched for convicts on the run.
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.
A 14-year-old accused of ruthless killings on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel boss is a U.S. citizen, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Monday.
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.
The confirmation of five cholera cases in Haiti’s capital is a “very worrying development,” a U.N. spokeswoman told 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.
The cholera outbreak in Haiti has spread across the border to the Dominican Republic and that nation has issued a maximum health alert, its health ministry said.
An explosion in a house in southern Pakistan killed six people Friday morning, police said.
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