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Guatemalans voted Sunday in a presidential election that could put a retired army general in power.
Two people accused of posting false rumors on social media about school attacks in eastern Mexico walked free Wednesday after authorities dropped terrorism charges against them.
Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi who fled Germany in 1961 and founded a cult-like commune in Chile, died Saturday in a prison hospital.
Tropical Storm Don has developed over the southern Gulf of Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday.
The military operation to clear a Rio de Janeiro slum of drug traffickers will effectively turn into an occupation of the area at least through October of next year, Gov. Sergio Cabral said in a radio interview Tuesday.
A 4-year-old U.S. citizen who was unable to enter the country this month because of a possible communications mix-up is expected to attempt the journey again on Wednesday, according to her lawyer.
Occupants of three trucks were working together in northern Mexico trying to pull over a vehicle carrying an American missionary before one of them shot the woman in the head, police said Thursday.
She is coming to power holding the hand of a powerful man. Replacing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil on January 1 is 63-year-old Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to govern this South American country of more than 200 million people.
A world mesmerized by a 68-day tale of true grit expects a joyful ending Tuesday in a desolate patch of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
A humble, sometimes wistful Alvaro Uribe bid Colombians adios Thursday, two days before his two terms and eight years as president are to end.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez formally welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a ceremony outside the South American country’s presidential palace Monday.
The United Kingdom is turning its sights to Latin America, a region that it has neglected, Foreign Minister William Hague said.
A search is under way after a military helicopter carrying 10 soldiers crashed into the sea off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, state media reported.
An American relief worker jailed in Haiti under suspicion of kidnapping a 15-month-old boy has been released, the man told CNN Wednesday.
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