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.
Some 2,000 police officers patrolled the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday after a bloody confrontation between rival drug gangs and authorities that killed 14 over the weekend, including two police officers.
For the launch of VICE magazine in Mexico, we decided to make an entire issue about Mexico, written entirely by Mexicans.
An American priest has been stabbed to death in Venezuela, authorities in that country said in a statement.
Haiti’s earthquake is creating “a generation of amputees,” something that will pose a challenge for Haitian society for years to come, experts say.
Joel Rathon had two missions Friday: bury his wife and save his son.
The first time I heard anything about people living in the sewers in Colombia was back at the beginning of the ’90s. The sewage system running under Bogota’s streets was filled with packs of kids living waist-deep in human waste and taking in copious amounts of glue and crack in order to cope.
In the wake of his decision to devalue Venezuela’s currency, President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he would put the military on the streets to ensure that business owners don’t raise prices.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived Friday in earthquake-damaged Chile, which endured two more strong aftershocks while working to recover from last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.
We had not been in Port-au-Prince in a month, not since those horrible days following the earthquake when the city looked like wreckage.
In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, George Clooney and other celebrities are signing on for a telethon to aid the devastated island nation.
Cuba criticized U.S. diplomats Saturday for meeting with political opponents after bilateral talks on immigration in Havana, accusing the American diplomats of “promoting subversion.”
In patches across the Haitian capital, many earthquake survivors are not waiting for an international clearing and rebuilding effort to begin. They are pulling out shovels, wood and cement to slowly repair and rebuild themselves.
The 63-year-old bearded fireplug of a man erupted in tears, pulled a white handkerchief from his back pocket, carefully unfolded it and pressed it into his eyes, pulled it away, pressed it again to his eyes, this time with more force, pulled it away again just long enough to take a sip of water, then rubbed them again.
Residents in coastal cities in Chile started to evacuate Wednesday after authorities warned of a possible tsunami caused by an aftershock.
The cemetery was mazelike before the earthquake, but now it’s impossible to navigate, with many of the narrow passages blocked by rubble. It takes Vladimir Duthiers an hour to reach his destination.
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