Eduardo Ravani Jr. was photographing a wedding reception early Saturday at Las Terrazas dela Reina on the hills overlooking Santiago, Chile, when the party disc jockey told him: “Hey, I think the building is moving.”
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American-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, believed to be one of Mexico’s most ruthless drug traffickers, was captured Monday, Mexican authorities said.
Ecuador Monday invited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to come to Quito to discuss documents leaked on the site relating to Ecuador and other Latin American countries, according to a statement from the country’s foreign ministry.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met Tuesday with his emergency Cabinet as flooding in two northeastern states killed at least 42 people and left more than 115,000 homeless or displaced, the Agencia Brasil state news agency and civil defense officials reported.
Hurricane Igor, which quickly intensified over the weekend, was poised on Monday to become a Category 5 storm — the most-powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale that measures tropical weather.
The United Nations criticized the international response to the Haiti cholera outbreak as inadequate on Saturday, saying donors had pledged only about ten percent of the money needed to curb the disease.
Rescuers raced against the clock Friday to free people trapped in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as aid workers tried to give out water and food to survivors.
Costa Rica elected its first female president, as the ruling National Liberation Party claimed a historic victory.
The portrayal of alien life on far-flung planets has been a favorite storyline for filmmakers down the years and is a perennial hit with audiences. “Avatar” has proved no different with the film doing record business at the box-office.
President Hugo Chavez’s ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela won a majority of seats in the country’s parliamentary elections, the National Electoral Council said early Monday.
Ten Americans charged with trafficking in Haiti defended their plan to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic, saying their intention was to get them to a temporary shelter.
A note, written in red and recovered on August 22, filled a nation with hope.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon meets with President Barack Obama on Thursday as part of a two-day visit to Washington that will likely include discussions on organized crime, immigration, and commerce.
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.
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