Rights commission asks for probe in 1994 Dominican disappearance
Related News
An Organization of American States human rights commission has asked a court to look into the 1994 disappearance of a Dominican Republic opposition leader shortly after he was taken into custody, the agency said Monday.
At one time, teens Carlos Gonzalez, 16, and Juan Carlos Echeverri, 15, were classmates at Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas.
Tropical Storm Matthew formed Thursday in the southwestern Caribbean Sea.
A group of South American leaders Friday condemned an “attempted coup” in Ecuador and praised troops for rescuing the country’s president in a shootout with police.
At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico’s northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, Notimex reported, citing an official.
A former Colombian model wanted on drug trafficking charges was captured Wednesday in Argentina, a spokesman for the Argentina Airport Security Police said.
A Haitian prosecutor asked for a six-month prison sentence Thursday for an American missionary accused of trying to take nearly three dozen children out of the country after a devastating and deadly earthquake in January.
A hurricane watch was issued Monday for portions of the Texas and Mexico coasts ahead of Tropical Storm Hermine, which forecasters said could approach hurricane strength before making landfall late Monday or early Tuesday.
Anger boiled over on the streets of Haiti’s capital Tuesday — not just from residents who have gone a week without food and water, but from the people who are supposed to be providing it.
For the 300 fans who are accompanying talk show host Oprah Winfrey on what is being billed as the Ultimate Australian Adventure, the trip is a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take in the sights and wonders the country has to offer.
For this installment of the Vice Guide to Film series, VBS co-founder Shane Smith traveled to Texas, Tijuana and Mexico City to immerse himself in the seedy, fast-paced, and vastly prolific and amusing world of films inspired by — and often funded by — Mexico’s ultraviolent drug cartels, a genre known as narco cinema.
Three Salvadoran gang members were arrested Monday in connection with the killing of French filmmaker Christian Poveda last June, police said.
Gas accumulation triggered by intense heat caused a garbage dump explosion Tuesday in central Mexico, damaging about 100 homes but leading to no known fatalities, the state-run news agency reported.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has promised Haitians he is focused on maintaining donor solidarity as the quake-torn nation struggles to rebuild, the organization said.
A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Costa Rica Monday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The deadly cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 1,100 lives in Haiti has now spread to yet another vulnerable community: the largest prison in the country.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Latest Headlines
- Church: 10 Cuban dissidents, including Nobel nominee, to be released
- Veteran of Tijuana drug wars to lead Juarez police
- FBI traveling to Peru for clues in Natalee Holloway case
- Ten charged in U.S. killings in Mexico; among 35 gang members indicted
- Lawyers: U.S. faces suit on syphilis tests in Guatemala
- Mexico outlines details of cross-border trucking pact
- Photos: Extravagance and splendor of the Rio carnival
- 21 oil workers rescued in Colombia
- Court bars Costa Rica, Nicaragua from disputed area
- Van der Sloot admits to Peru killing, seeks lesser charge
- 18 killed in Mexican border state shootout
- Source: Former Mexican police chief is in the U.S.
- 23 oil workers kidnapped in Colombia
- Documents detail defense strategy of Van der Sloot in Peru
- Mexico chief fired amid reports she fled for safety