Thousands still without food, water in parts of quake-hit Chile
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A tale of two Chiles began to emerge late Monday, with life starting to return to normal in Santiago, Chile, and northern parts of the country, while other areas struggled with lack of food and water and looters roaming the streets.
Cuban President Raul Castro has replaced two high-level government ministers — citing errors and incompetence — in the latest round of replacements at top-level government posts.
Rescuers in Chile have just another 89 meters (292 feet) left to drill and are expected to break through into the area where 33 miners are trapped by Saturday, Chilean Mines Minister Laurence Golborne said Thursday.
Four hostages rescued from Marxist guerrillas in Colombia over the weekend were reunited with their families Monday in Bogota, the nation’s capital, a broadcast on CNN affiliate Caracol TV showed.
Six jailed Cuban dissidents will be moved to prisons closer to their homes in “the coming hours,” the island’s Roman Catholic Church said Thursday.
A “tense calm” prevailed Friday evening in Panama’s Bocas del Toro province, one day after violent confrontations between striking banana plantation workers and federal troops left one protester dead and more than 100 people injured, the president’s spokeswoman told CNN.
Cuba’s Roman Catholic church has identified 12 more jailed dissidents who are expected to be freed in what would be the largest Cuban prisoner release in more than a decade.
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.
Members of a Colombian leftist rebel group released two more longtime prisoners Wednesday afternoon, bringing the total released since February 9 to six, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
A prison riot in northern Mexico left two inmates dead and 10 wounded, the state-run Notimex news agency said.
Venezuela deported two narcotrafficking suspects to the United States on Monday, the state-run Agencia Venezolana de Noticias said Monday.
After the killer earthquake in January, public health officials feared the worst for humanity in Haiti. Among the top concerns was the potential for disease outbreaks, particularly water-borne infections — like cholera.
Homicide police in San Diego, California, are investigating Monday’s death of a Mexican man who was beaten and tasered by U.S. border agents three days earlier, officials said.
A trial started Wednesday for a former Costan Rican president and eight others accused of taking bribes to award a $150 million government mobile phone contract.
We had not been in Port-au-Prince in a month, not since those horrible days following the earthquake when the city looked like wreckage.
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city’s south pier by Friday.
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