Costa Rica’s first female candidate held a two-to-one lead in the country’s presidential election, as the second-place candidate, Otton Solis of the Citizen’s Action Party, conceded defeat.
Once there was a golf course and a swanky club. Almost two weeks after Haiti’s killer quake, the sweeping hills of The Petionville Club have transformed into a city of misery.
A British oil rig is due to start drilling off the Falkland Islands in a move likely to stoke further tensions between Argentina and the UK over the disputed South Atlantic territory.
The supply line to Haiti is clogged by airport congestion and blocked roads, forcing thousands of earthquake survivors to scrounge for food and emergency aid. But the head of the United Nations is calling for calm among the increasingly desperate populations.
The only thing that seemed to frighten Pedro Munoz that dark morning was that a guilty conscience would haunt him if he did nothing.
As many as 225,000 children in Haiti live and work as unpaid domestic servants, the first study to closely examine the issue concluded.
Francisco and Astrid Ramos returned to Argentina from Haiti the morning of January 12, just hours before the devastating earthquake hit.
Jean Baptiste Vanise suffers the anguish no mother should have to bear.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and foreign ministers from more than a dozen countries will start laying out the groundwork for rebuilding Haiti on Monday, nearly two weeks after a devastating earthquake.
A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday as pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims’ suffering.
All that glitters may not be gold, but for Colombia’s narco-molls the most important thing is that it glitters.
So many doctors are answering Haiti’s call for medical aid that the largest hospital in Port-au-Prince has a new problem: organizing and finding good use for them all.
Lethal assaults on police and prison guards in Guatemala continued over the weekend, with an attack on a national police patrol that killed two officers and left one wounded, authorities said.
A sweet sadness blankets Hector Mendez’s face, appropriate, perhaps, for a middle-age man who has seen suffering and miracles at once.
A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting new misery on the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
Eight people died early Monday in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when a city bus and a police ambulance collided, the government news agency reported.
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