A volcanic eruption covered Guatemala City with ash Thursday evening, shutting down the city’s international airport, government officials said.
At least 81 people were killed and several more injured in a fire that broke out after a riot at a prison in Chile, officials said Wednesday.
Federal and state representatives of the office of Mexico’s attorney general met Friday with the families of the 16 partygoers shot dead Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, a police spokesman told CNN.
Armed men kidnapped 23 oil workers in eastern Colombia Monday, the country’s army said in a statement.
After dealing a walloping blow to Haiti, where at least six people died and a number of homes were destroyed, Tropical Storm Tomas was weakening rapidly Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has come out in favor of legalizing drugs in an attempt to disrupt the illegal markets that have turned parts of Mexico into battlegrounds.
A 14-year-old accused of ruthless killings on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel boss faced a battery of questions from reporters after authorities detained him. And he answered, point-blank, as camera flash bulbs flickered.
A judge has lifted an order banning Venezuelan media from printing violent photographs, an official said on state-owned VTV.
As of Tueday night there were no confirmed fatalities and 11 possible missing persons as the result of a landslide in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, Gov. Ulises Ruiz told CNN.
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 torch for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics was lit in a ceremony at the ancient Greek site of Olympia on Thursday, less than four months ahead of the games’ opening ceremony.
Tropical Depression Karl continued dissipating across southern Mexico on Saturday, but threats of flash floods and mudslides remain, forecasters said.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Friday he “deplores” an early morning attack Friday at a bar in a Medellin suburb that killed at least eight people.
A car bomb exploded early Saturday on an interstate in the central state of Hidalgo, Mexico, fatally wounding a police investigator and injuring three others, according to Mexico’s attorney general’s office.
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