Just two days before the earthquake struck Haiti, 2007 CNN Hero Boby Duval was celebrating the completion of a wall he’d built to surround — and secure — his youth program’s athletic center in Port-au-Prince.
In the country that ranks second in the harvest of coca, the plant whose leaves are used in the production of cocaine, the idea to get Peruvian farmers to plant alternative crops is not new.
Erasing the scars of bullets and violence is the motivation of Alberto Gonzalez Pena, the new mayor of Ciudad Mier, Mexico, a small town just across the border from Texas.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde paid a visit to Brazil’s capital Monday, making overtures toward developing nations to support her bid to become the first female president of the International Monetary Fund.
Emergency officials in Mexico are opening shelters and coordinating with local governments ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Jova, authorities said Sunday.
Authorities have found what appears to be a severed human foot this week, the 11th found in waterways in British Columbia in the past four years.
We had not been in Port-au-Prince in a month, not since those horrible days following the earthquake when the city looked like wreckage.
A Cuban prisoner who went on a hunger strike because he was not part of the government’s recent mass pardon has died, a human rights leader said Tuesday.
Costa Rica will take its border dispute with Nicaragua to international court Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Mexico on Tuesday for meetings with President Felipe Calderon and other top Mexican officials on narcotics trafficking and border security.
A locomotive train collided with a stopped passenger train carrying 250 people early Monday in the town of Monasterio, Argentina, about 150 kilometers (about 90 miles) south of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, injuring 70 passengers, a report said.
Impassable roads, a bottleneck at the damaged airport, an unreachable dock and not enough equipment to unload supplies kept much of the world’s help Friday from desperate Haitians.
Less than four months in office, Mexico’s attorney general has overseen the firing of 140 police officers and investigators, and has more than 280 others under investigation.
Hurricane Richard weakened to a tropical storm over northwestern Guatemala early Monday as it pelted at least four Latin American nations with heavy winds and rains, the National Hurricane Center reported.
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