A four-day transit strike that created a traffic nightmare in the Colombian capital and brought protesters into the streets was resolved Thursday, officials said.
Security forces were burning the bodies of the dead this week in a Jamaican neighborhood ravaged by a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin, according to residents, who said their entire neighborhood had been a war zone.
Through the afternoon downpour a horse plods along a muddy mountain path. I can smell him almost before he rounds the bend. He’s weighed down with more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of freshly-picked marijuana.
As many as 225,000 children in Haiti live and work as unpaid domestic servants, the first study to closely examine the issue concluded.
Lelly Laurentus thought he was doing the right thing when he handed his two young children over to an American woman who promised to take them to a better place.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia will meet Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is in Lima for the 40th General Assembly of the Organization of American States, Peru’s state-run news agency said.
Rick Santos has two missions in Haiti this time around.
A Colombian soldier held by Colombian rebels for more than 11 months was released Sunday.
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.
A British oil rig has started drilling off the Falkland Islands in a move likely to stoke further tensions between Argentina and the UK over the disputed South Atlantic territory.
Tropical Storm Agatha unleashed torrential rains over Guatemala, southeast Mexico and much of El Salvador, triggering flash floods and mud slides.
In a dirt field 20 minutes outside of Leogane’s city center, desperation surfaces in the form of fear, anger, thanks. All at once.
The Haitian ambassador to the U.S. said Thursday he has not been able to contact a single minister in his government since Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in his country.
A U.S. citizen granted conditional release this week after being jailed in Peru since 1995 for helping leftist rebels could have her sentence commuted and be expelled from the country, a top government official said Thursday.
The alleged leader of a regional branch of the Los Zetas drug cartel was arrested by the Mexican Army Wednesday, Mexico’s state news agency Notimex reported.
Security forces in Jamaica plan to renew a push Monday to arrest an accused drug lord at the center of violence that has now killed 76 people, the country’s police commissioner said.
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