Dancers have put on a dazzling display atop extravagant floats at the legendary annual Rio Carnival. Thousands of revelers cheered as dancers shimmied and shook their colorful costumes through the streets of the Brazilian capital.
After the killer earthquake in January, public health officials feared the worst for humanity in Haiti. Among the top concerns was the potential for disease outbreaks, particularly water-borne infections — like cholera.
He’s a former army officer who was linked to a 2005 military uprising and accused of being an extreme leftist. She’s the daughter of a former president who’s serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations. About the only thing they have in common is that they both want to be the next president of Peru.
Tropical Storm Matthew was strengthening Friday and could become a hurricane — bringing heavy rains, flash floods and mudslides to Central America, forecasters said.
A 24-year-old man was rescued from the rubble 11 days after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti.
He has influenced convicted terrorists such as Richard Reid, the so-called shoe-bomber. His sermons were found in the apartment of suicide bombers who struck London, England, in 2005. Even one of the 9/11 plotters is said to have been a follower of Sheik Abdullah El-Faisal.
With the death of the poet Peter Orlovsky in late May a chapter in America’s cultural life came to a discreet end.
“Why us, why us?”
On his knees in the soggy soil, 9-year-old Alexis Ocampo digs deep into the earth, his small gardening rake separating dirt from rocks. “Look, I found a worm!” he shrieks.
Crews searching for an American woman have looked in Aruban phosphate mines, authorities there said Saturday.
The foggy desert morning quickly gave way to a sizzling afternoon at the San Jose Mine in northern Chile — not the typical place one would think to partake in independence day festivities. But for the families of the 33 miners who have been trapped in the mine since August 5, it provided the community spirit needed to make the best of a difficult situation.
Three leading candidates for Guatemala’s presidency sparred over policy proposals, but unanimously slammed the country’s security situation in a debate co-hosted by CNN en Español Thursday night.
A municipal police captain was fatally shot while driving to work on Thursday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, becoming the 49th municipal police officer killed since October 2010, authorities told CNN.
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a coup nearly two years ago, was expected to return to his homeland Saturday.
Bolivian President Evo Morales was in a hospital Tuesday, three days after knee surgery, but has started physical rehabilitation, the state-run ABI news agency reported.
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