The World Bank has canceled Haiti’s $36 million debt, the institution announced Friday.
Authorities found two severed heads along a highway in Mexico City on Monday morning, the city’s attorney general said.
President Barack Obama on Thursday extended U.S. assistance to Colombia in combating civilian aircraft involved in drug trafficking.
Officials in Petionville, Haiti, on Saturday prepared to move the first people out of a ballooning tent city — one of many erected in the wake of the 7.0-magnitude quake that devastated the country in January — and into a displacement camp as the rainy season gets under way.
As Tropical Storm Arlene steadily chugged toward the east-central coast of Mexico Wednesday, Mexican authorities issued a hurricane watch that stretches from the country’s eastern municipality of Tuxpan northward to La Cruz, the National Hurricane Center reported.
The apparently strangled bodies of two women who worked for a weekly newsmagazine in Mexico City were found Thursday morning in a suburb south of the city, officials said.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tuesday near Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey. Several witnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the Haitian capital.
A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bolivia Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
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.
Tropical Depression Alex was expected to continue drenching states across Mexico even as it dissipated early Friday morning, forecasters said.
One of eight people killed in a bar shooting near Medellin, Colombia, early Friday has dual U.S.-Colombian citizenship, Colombian officials said.
One street in Pisco is lined with what appears to be homes, but these are facades: They are thin walls of bricks recreating fake homes, like those found on movie sets.
A 17-year-old boy was among the seven people killed in a noon shootout Friday on the streets of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, police said Saturday.
It’s one of the most famous tourist destinations in Mexico.
A lieutenant colonel in Rio de Janeiro’s military police was arrested Tuesday morning in connection with the killing of a judge last month, the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported, citing military police.
President Michelle Bachelet toured devastated areas in central and southern Chile on Thursday, five days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake killed more than 800 people.
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