An 8.8-magnitude quake hit south central Chile on Saturday morning, and tremors rattled cities as far away as Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I live.
Sitting in the shade away from the heat, Jean Frank is making a fishing net that he hopes will help him return to his life as a fisherman.
A sweet sadness blankets Hector Mendez’s face, appropriate, perhaps, for a middle-aged man who has seen suffering and miracles at once.
Lesley Enriquez went to a birthday party and brought her husband and baby daughter along. After the food and cake and singing and children’s games were done, the family piled into the car and headed home.
Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo died Tuesday after an 80-day hunger strike to demand better jail conditions, according to dissidents.
A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake rattled Costa Rica Monday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
One of Spain’s most famous matadors was in a stable condition in intensive care Sunday, a day after being severely gored during a bullfight in Mexico, Spain’s official news agency reported.
It was once a proud center of learning, a bastion of Creole language and culture. But now students say that their potential for knowledge, like so many of their classmates, is buried under the rubble of The Faculty of Applied Linguistics in Port-au-Prince Haiti.
Colombians went to the polls Sunday in a tight presidential race that many didn’t expect would be so close just a few months ago.
The former Haitian president forced to flee office during the violent uprising of 2004 has announced that he is ready to return home to help rebuild his earthquake-shattered country.
The governor of the Mexican state of Baja California said Monday he is asking the federal government for a natural disaster declaration after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook the region.
Bolivia plans to take back the nation’s railroad system in 2010, 14 years after selling its trains and tracks to the private sector, a government official says.
Adventurer Reid Stowe is due to set foot on dry land Thursday for the first time in over three years.
Laws must be obeyed, even if you’re the mayor of one of the largest cities in South America.
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