Security forces were burning the bodies of the dead this week in a Jamaican neighborhood ravaged by a failed attempt to arrest a suspected drug kingpin, according to residents, who said their entire neighborhood had been a war zone.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
The Colombian military says it has seized a submarine capable of transporting more than seven tons of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico.
Venezuelan authorities may hand over an alleged leader of a leftist guerrilla group Monday, Colombia’s president said.
On his knees in the soggy soil, 9-year-old Alexis Ocampo digs deep into the earth, his small gardening rake separating dirt from rocks. “Look, I found a worm!” he shrieks.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will meet with Chilean President Michele Bachelet and her successor on Friday, to reassure the earthquake-battered nation of the international commitment to aid.
Fraud has forced Haiti’s election council to delay results of a highly anticipated runoff intended to decide the next leader of the troubled Caribbean nation.
At least nine people died in shootouts over the weekend in northeastern Mexico, an area where two drug cartels have been waging a bloody war since January.
A spacecraft survived the closest encounter ever with a comet on Thursday, tracking it just 435 miles from the comet’s nucleus.
A 3-year-old Canadian boy kidnapped four days earlier was returned to his home early Sunday and police were searching for a suspect, officials said.
Brazilian federal prosecutors have filed a suit against Chevron and oil rig operator Transocean Ltd for 20 billion reais, about $11 billion, in response to an oil spill in deep water off the coast of Rio de Janeiro last month.
Lesley Enriquez went to a birthday party and brought her husband and baby daughter along. After the food and cake and singing and children’s games were done, the family piled into the car and headed home.
Three people were rescued Sunday from the rubble of a grocery store, officials told CNN, and American and Turkish rescuers were working to free others, despite experiencing a setback.
Ten people, including Americans and Dominicans, carrying 33 children were arrested along the Haitian-Dominican Republic border Saturday, according to Mario Andresol, chief of Haitian National Police.
It has appeared repeatedly on Venezuelan state television, government ads, and the even the president’s Twitter account. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a new populist slogan.
Four of Latin America’s most pro-business countries signed a pact forming a bloc for “deep integration” to promote growth and economic competitiveness.
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