Guatemala’s national police chief and the country’s top anti-narcotics official have been arrested in connection with the drug trade, Attorney General Amilcar Velasquez announced.
Unless you live in Whistler, you wouldn’t know that a certain segment of the community is opposed to hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics.
A trial started Wednesday for a former Costa Rican president and eight others accused of taking bribes to award a $149 million government mobile phone contract.
Venezuelan cable television providers dropped a channel Sunday that has been critical of President Hugo Chavez, citing violation of broadcast laws.
Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the United States of an alleged drug kingpin continued Monday, with police saying a number of people had died in an attack on the suspect’s stronghold in West Kingston.
Clad in a gold sequined bikini and topped with a feathered headdress, a curvy cabaret dancer strutted onstage.
Five people were rescued Sunday from the rubble of a grocery store, officials told CNN, 24 hours after the effort to reach them began.
The Dominican consul general Wednesday rejected the claim from an American church leader that she thought her paperwork was in order when she attempted to take 33 Haitian children out of the country, saying he had told her it was not.
The El Galpon farmers market is one of the few places in Buenos Aires where a variety of natural products are all available under one roof.
In the central plaza, there was once an orgy of music, street dancing and revelry unmatched by any other nation in the Americas, Haitians say.
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.
Nervous residents in Chile’s capital woke up Sunday morning to more aftershocks, a day after one of the most powerful earthquakes to hit the world in decades left large swaths of their city in ruins.
Ten Americans accused of illegally trying to take children out of Haiti met with people they thought were a Haitian policeman and a Dominican official the week before being stopped at the border, said interpreters who worked with the group.
Faced with international criticism over hunger-striking dissidents, President Raul Castro on Sunday said Cuba refused to give in to blackmail and accused the United States and Europe of launching “the most ferocious” media campaign against the island nation in decades.
An Argentine pilot accused of participating in “death flights” during the nation’s “dirty war” in the 1970s and ’80s has been extradited from Spain and will face charges Friday, the government’s Judicial News Service reported.
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