Fermin was a mechanic, not a coal miner, but on the morning of February 19, 2006 he had to go down into the Pasta de Conchos mine near here to fix a broken cart that couldn’t haul the coal out.
The United Nations General Assembly voted Tuesday in favor of a resolution calling for an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba. There were 187 member states in favor of the resolution, two against, and three abstentions.
A submarine found by anti-drug police in Ecuador last week cost $4 million to build and could have hauled 6 to 10 metric tons of cocaine, a top U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration official said Wednesday.
They rumble down city boulevards and country roads across Cuba: 1950s Fords, Buicks and Pontiacs, some in mint condition, others on the verge of collapse.
Small but powerful Hurricane Paula was closing in on the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba Tuesday night with sustained 100 mph winds, forecasters said.
Rachel Sussman is a time traveler. For the last few years the American photographer has journeyed across the globe on a mission to bring back images of the world’s oldest living organisms.
Colombian authorities have proof that high-ranking leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, live in Venezuela, the Colombian government said Thursday.
A strong aftershock rocked Haiti on Wednesday morning just as much-needed medical aid was set to reach the earthquake-ravaged nation.
Authorities on Sunday were investigating a shooting outside a neighborhood bar and grocery store in northern Puerto Rico, which killed seven people and wounded at least 25 others.
A military plane with 21 people aboard went missing off Chile’s Pacific coast near the Juan Fernandez islands, authorities said on Friday.
Authorities in the northern Mexican city of Torreon said Saturday that they found 10 “mutilated” bodies inside the back of a truck, the state-run news agency reported.
The commissioner of Mexico’s National Migration Institute has resigned, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
The 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for more than three months after a mine collapse in northern Chile will get lifetime pensions.
Calling Haiti’s cholera outbreak “an extremely serious situation,” a United Nations official expressed concern Monday that the infectious disease that has already killed more than 250 people could spread and grow to “tens of thousands of cases.”
Tomas Escobar created a website in his bedroom in rural northwestern Argentina hoping to help people locate free movies online in a more efficient manner.
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