Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the U.S. of a suspected drug kingpin continued Monday, with shots fired at police officers as they sought to clear roads in Kingston, police said.
The Colombian military killed the leader of the country’s main leftist rebel group in an operation, a senior government official said Friday night.
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.
Environmental activist Philippe Cousteau is to explore the Arctic with CNN to show how scientists in the wilderness are studying climate change in one of the coldest places on the planet.
Major league catcher Wilson Ramos has been “found alive,” two days after he was reported kidnapped by gunmen, Venezuelan state TV reported Friday.
It’s a question that will probably never be answered: Would guns have made a difference?
A Venezuelan governor and former minister of communications was missing Saturday after a car accident.
From a bat christened “yoda” to frogs with inflating noses dubbed “Pinocchio.”
Argentina’s president will undergo surgery next month after doctors diagnosed her with thyroid cancer, a presidential spokesman said Tuesday.
Bare brick houses stacked one on top of another cling to the hills of Rio de Janeiro.
Mexico will accelerate the purge of corrupt elements within its federal attorney general’s office, President Felipe Calderon said Friday, as he reaffirmed his conviction to fight the country’s drug cartels with all the nation’s might.
The legend of Jesus Malverde is a more than century-old story handed down from generation to generation of disenfranchised Mexicans. Widely known as the Robin Hood of Mexico, Malverde was said to be the quintessential son of the pueblo. His story was embraced by the poor and, more recently, by drug traffickers.
Former Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon was detained Saturday on suspicion of illegal weapons possession, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office said.
A cholera outbreak in Haiti continues to spread to previously unaffected areas in rural communities, killing 442 people and hospitalizing 6,742 others, the Pan American Health Organization said Wednesday.
Authorities in northwestern Peru have identified the 24 people who died Tuesday when a bus plunged into a ravine, the state news agency reported Wednesday.
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