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Venezuelan inspectors, aided by the military, shut down 70 stores Monday as a sanction for allegedly adjusting prices in the wake of a currency devaluation last week, the state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported, citing the inspection agency.
Argentina’s ambassador to the United States, Hector Timerman, will become the new foreign minister, replacing Jorge Taiana, who resigned Friday, the government said.
There are dozens of murders recorded in Mexico each month, but it was a single one that set off a succession of skirmishes that has turned the northeastern state of Tamaulipas into a battle zone.
At least 14 people were killed in 48 hours in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, including the Tuesday deaths of a municipal police officer and a newspaper vendor who police believe was targeted because of her job.
As many as seven people, including at least one minor, were killed in an explosion at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, Sunday, police said.
In a modest office in the neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, engineers, architects, aid workers and government officials are working on the earthquake-ravaged country’s future. They call it Haiti 2.0.
One of South America’s largest historical archives — 35 million pages that chronicle widespread killing, forced disappearances and torture committed by Brazilian military rulers from 1964 to 1985 — is rotting away in an obscure government building in Brazil’s capital.
Federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed suit against former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and a former Cabinet minister, charging them with misusing public funds to send more than 10 million letters to retirees telling them about low-interest payroll loans from Banco BMG, according to the state-run Agencia Brasil.
He has influenced convicted terrorists such as Richard Reid, the so-called shoe-bomber. His sermons were found in the apartment of suicide bombers who struck London, England, in 2005. Even one of the 9/11 plotters is said to have been a follower of Sheik Abdullah El-Faisal.
The heady smell wafts through the air at the distillery just north of the Haitian capital. Inside, almost four months of unwelcome silence ended recently when conveyor belts began rolling again, churning out thousands of bottles of pure sugar-cane rum.
A brazen daylight shooting in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday afternoon left four people dead and injured two others, including a 5-year-old boy, a Juarez municipal police spokesman told CNN.
Dozens of garbage pickers pounce on the black and white trash bags as they tumble out of the latest truck to dump its load at the summit of the Gramacho landfill.
The Colombian government plans to use lands seized from drug traffickers to relocate victims of massive flooding and the United Nations is beefing up emergency measures in what has been called the South American nation’s worst natural disaster ever.
Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.
The center of a weakened Hurricane Paula neared Cuba early Thursday, threatening to spread heavy rain across the Caribbean island, forecasters said.
Homicide police in San Diego, California, are investigating Monday’s death of a Mexican man who was beaten and tasered by U.S. border agents three days earlier, officials said.
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