Tropical storm leaves more than 115 dead in Central America
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At least 115 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
Only when flying over the treetops of the Brazilian Amazon was I finally able to comprehend the scale of the forest.
Argentina’s president has said she will deploy 6,000 border guards to police the streets of the country’s capital amid a wave of protests.
The signal of one of Mexico’s largest television networks faded to black for almost an hour as a symbolic protest of violence against journalists.
Ten Americans held in Haiti on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children out of the country could have their first court hearing Monday afternoon, a preacher associated with the missionaries told CNN.
Daniel Rouzier clutched a mahogany rosary and a pair of latex gloves in his left hand, his face covered in a sterile mask.
Child slavery has escalated six months after a devastating earthquake demolished the Haitian capital and left a generation of orphans, according to an advocate who works in the Caribbean nation.
A coal mine explosion early Thursday in northwest Colombia has trapped at least 70 miners and killed at least five workers, a local official told CNN en Español.
About 5,000 Mexican motorists along the border near San Diego, California, protested the death of an illegal immigrant last week while in the custody of U.S. border agents, the Notimex news agency reported.
Authorities sent in the military to help quell violence that continued Friday in the slums of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, with criminal gangs torching at least two more buses and five cars before dawn, state media reported.
Mexican authorities have arrested seven more people in connection with the killings of 72 migrants in northeastern Mexico, said Alejandro Poire, the president’s spokesman for security issues.
The Virgin Islands returned Saturday to their customary travel poster status, but a closer look beneath the sunshine and palm trees showed mud-caked roads, displaced boats and a resort socked by Tropical Storm Otto.
Tropical Storm Paula, with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph, has formed in the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
Mexican authorities over the weekend found 55 bodies inside a mine ventilation shaft that was used as a mass grave in the city of Taxco, officials said Monday.
Guatemalan authorities have issued arrest warrants for two prominent brothers in connection with last year’s slaying of a lawyer who left behind a videotape saying President Alvaro Colom would be responsible if anything happened to him, the suspects’ attorney confirmed Wednesday.
Venezuelan state television has showed the skeletal remains of one of Hugo Chavez’s heroes as the country’s president called for an investigation into his death.
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