Task of rebuilding Haiti expected to be ambitious, arduous
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In a modest office in the neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, engineers, architects, aid workers and government officials are working on the earthquake-ravaged country’s future. They call it Haiti 2.0.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has reshuffled his Cabinet, naming nine ministers to new posts and placing the nation’s troubled food distribution network under the vice president, the government announced Wednesday.
Eight people were killed and three others were injured after a group of gunmen opened fire on a private bus in Honduras, officials said.
Thousands packed Havana’s Revolution Square on Saturday for International Workers’ Day, drawing hordes of Cuban demonstrators, spectators, and trade unionists from around the world — including the United States and the United Kingdom.
A coal mine explosion early Thursday in northwest Colombia has trapped at least 70 miners and killed at least five workers, a local official told CNN en Español.
Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, known as “the voice of Latin America” for her songs about the plight of the poor, died Sunday, according to an announcement on her Web site. She was 74.
Venezuela routinely violates human rights, often intimidating or punishing citizens based on their political beliefs, an Organization of American States commission said in a report released Wednesday.
A meeting that U.S. diplomats had requested with relatives of some Cuban political prisoners has been put on hold, dissidents said Monday.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Friday he “deplores” an early morning attack Friday at a bar in a Medellin suburb that killed at least eight people.
Authorities launched a massive sweep of the Alemao favela complex in northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday morning.
Once one of Central America’s most notorious military strongmen, former Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker Manuel Noriega has been a prisoner since being toppled from power in 1990 in a U.S. invasion.
The president of a Venezuelan TV station that has been critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday at an airport on charges that he abused his right to free speech.
At least six people have died in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon from rain associated with former Hurricane Alex, which stormed ashore late Wednesday, the government news agency said Friday.
Disaster and emergency experts warn that earthquake-ravaged Haiti is facing fresh tragedy as time becomes ever more crucial to rescue efforts.
Mexican federal authorities arrested 62 police officers in the state of Baja California Thursday suspected of ties to organized crime and drug trafficking, the state’s attorney general said, according to the state-run Notimex news agency.
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