A Venezuelan farmer who went on a hunger strike over the occupation of his land by neighboring farmers with the support of the government died Monday night, the government and his family said Tuesday.
Former Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon was detained Saturday on suspicion of illegal weapons possession, the Mexican Attorney General’s Office said.
A Haitian judge will decide Wednesday the fate of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the devastating earthquake in January.
Brazil’s first female president was sworn in Saturday amid cheers and tears from supporters, many of whom followed her rise from freedom fighter brutally persecuted in the 1960s to leader of her country.
Argentina’s president is scheduled to temporarily hand over power Wednesday as she undergoes thyroid cancer surgery.
In December 2001, Argentina defaulted on $100 billion in debt — the largest default in history. The move ushered in an era of utter chaos: five presidents in two weeks, cash and food shortages, deadly riots and dire poverty.
Former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos declared victory Sunday in Colombia’s presidential runoff, winning more than 69 percent of the votes with nearly all votes counted.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro will make his first major public appearance in years Monday when he discusses “dangerous developments” in the Middle East on a government TV program, the state-run newspaper Granma reported.
An earthquake hit the Dominican Republic Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, almost exactly two years to the day after a massive quake devastated the neighboring nation of Haiti.
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck offshore some 58 miles south-southwest of Valparaiso, Chile, on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Hundreds of Mexican federal police officers from two opposing groups clashed in Ciudad Juarez over the weekend over allegations of corruption within their ranks.
A 23-day hunger strike by Venezuelan students demanding the release of people they identified as political prisoners came to an end Tuesday, the strike’s leader said. CNN affiliate Globovision reported that the strikers reached a deal with the Venezuelan government to free seven prisoners.
Mexico’s Sinaloa state has named a new target in the government’s war on organized crime: bars, restaurants and night clubs that play songs glorifying drug trafficking.
More than 48 hours after two mangled bodies appeared hanging by ropes from a pedestrian bridge in a Mexican border city, authorities had yet to identify the victims.
Opponents and supporters of Venezuela’s current government have planned marches on Sunday — the anniversary of a popular revolt that overthrew dictator Marcos Perez in 1958.
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