The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert for Jamaica on Friday, citing unconfirmed reports of criminal gang members amassing in Kingston and the mobilization of Jamaican defense forces.
Mexican authorities have rescued six undocumented Cuban migrants who had been held for ransom for a month in Cancun, a vacation hotspot on the nation’s Yucatan Peninsula, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Wednesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez underwent surgery Friday in Cuba, a top official in Caracas said.
Rio de Janeiro’s special forces moved quickly and didn’t stop to chat Monday as they peered in windows and knocked on doors in Rocinha, the city’s biggest shantytown.
A former Miss Argentina died Sunday after complications arising from plastic surgery, the official Telam news agency said.
Hurricane Jova carried sustained winds up to 125 mph as the storm bore down on Mexico’s Pacific coast Monday.
Workers at Codelco staged a one-day strike Monday in Chile, halting operations at the world’s largest copper producer.
The Army sergeant accused of leading his men to kill innocent Afghan civilians kept a personal body count of skull tattoos and associated with white supremacists online, according to interviews conducted by military investigators.
Three bodies have been found near the site where a boat carrying about 100 migrants capsized off the Dominican Republic’s coast over the weekend, a local lawmaker said Monday.
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner handily won Argentina’s presidential primary, garnering more than half the country’s votes.
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted southern Taiwan on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths but some damage has occurred to buildings and major bridges, and power was cut off near the epicenter.
Emergency officials and residents rushed to prepare as a weakened Hurricane Jova slowly spun toward Mexico’s southwestern coast.
A Honduran reporter was found shot to death Tuesday in the city of San Pedro Sula, making him at least the eighth journalist killed in the country this year.
A raucous pro-government crowd is shouting insults and preventing a group of Cuban dissidents from launching a protest march on the street.
The mayor of Piedras Negras, Mexico, and the secretary of public works and transportation in the state of Coahuila were killed in a plane crash Wednesday, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha continued to grow Tuesday, with 152 reported killed in Guatemala, 16 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
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