Survivors of Haiti earthquake rebuilding on their own
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In patches across the Haitian capital, many earthquake survivors are not waiting for an international clearing and rebuilding effort to begin. They are pulling out shovels, wood and cement to slowly repair and rebuild themselves.
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Set beside the Imperial Valley in southeastern California, the Salton Sea area was supposed to be Hollywood’s answer to the Riviera back in the ’50s. But its developers failed to anticipate the raw sewage that would run up the New River from Mexico and make survival impossible for many aquatic species.
Stung by criticism that aid hasn’t been getting into earthquake-ravaged Haiti quickly enough, U.S. officials say they are taking steps to rectify the problem and the perception.
A Dominican man who is acting as a legal adviser to 10 Americans arrested on child kidnapping charges in Haiti is himself facing allegations of human trafficking in El Salvador and human smuggling charges in the United States.
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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.
Franklin Lobos and Jorge Galeguillos were driving a Nissan pickup truck into the San Jose copper and gold mine near Copiapo, Chile, when the Earth shook.
The battle over same-sex marriage in Latin America has moved to Chile, where the nation’s Roman Catholic archbishop said this weekend such unions are an “aberration.”
Sirens sounded early Saturday morning across Hawaii, warning people of a possible tsunami and telling people to in coastal areas to evacuate.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon and several Cabinet members plan to make a high-profile visit Thursday to Ciudad Juarez, the bloody border city that has become a central battleground in the nation’s war on drugs.
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A grenade thrown by unknown attackers damaged apartments near a television station office in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday, but there were no reports of injuries, the country’s state-run Notimex agency reported.
At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico’s northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, Notimex reported, citing an official.
Six people have died in El Salvador as a result of rains associated with Agatha, a tropical storm that killed at least 12 people and left 22 missing in neighboring Guatemala before it was downgraded, the Salvadoran government said Sunday.
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