Trinidad and Tobago made history Wednesday when it swore in Kamla Persad-Bissessar as the Caribbean nation’s first female prime minister.
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced plans to run for re-election.
The 33 miners trapped inside a Chilean mine have shown their families a glimpse of what their routines are like, thanks to a video they made.
For years, small groups of Cuban dissidents have taken their demands to the streets, calling for political freedom as they get pushed around and shouted down by swarms of government supporters.
In the first four months of this year, more than 20,000 illegal migrants boarded the “train of death” at the railhead in Arriaga, southern Mexico, according to diplomats in the region. They all had one aim: “El Norte”, the United States.
Chilling video captured by a security camera shows more than a dozen armed men carrying out a shooting spree in broad daylight that left eight people dead last month in Mexico’s Chihuahua state.
Former Argentine dictator Gen. Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison for crimes against humanity at a clandestine detention center during his rule. He was already serving a 25-year sentence from a previous trial.
Three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were killed in a drive-by shooting in the violent border city, a senior White House official told CNN Sunday.
As my tweet reported in real time on the 30th July – Cho and I have been spat out of the jungle for the very last time.
Imagine you’re a 19-year-old corporal in the Colombian army when Marxist guerrillas attack your unit, kill 22 of your colleagues and capture you and 18 others.
A Chilean judge requested the extradition of a former U.S. military official Tuesday, accusing him of involvement in the 1973 killing of an American journalist that inspired an Oscar-winning movie.
After months of uncertainty, Haiti’s president Wednesday set November 28 as the day that voters in the earthquake-devastated nation will head to the polls to elect a successor.
Even as much of Haiti struggles to recover from last year’s devastating earthquake, scientists have found some survivors who are coming back from the edge.
A 13-year-old boy has been detained in Argentina in connection with a beating death Tuesday during the national Day of Spring celebrations, the official state-run news agency said Thursday.
Mexican authorities have arrested a drug gang suspect in connection with dramatic shootings in Ciudad Juarez that killed 16 people, including three connected with the U.S. consulate, federal police said Friday.
Five Cuban political prisoners and their families boarded an airplane to Madrid, Spain, on Thursday night, bringing the number of prisoners released into exile in the past two weeks to 20, according to the Spanish Embassy in Havana.
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