Latin America

Lawyers for the Italian former left-wing rebel Cesare Battisti have asked for his release from prison...

A freedom fighter who was tortured by her country's dictatorship has become the first female president...

The Colombian government says it will relocate thousands of people left homeless by torrential rain and...

The Colombian government says it will relocate thousands of people left homeless by torrential rain and...

Washington has revoked the visa of the Venezuelan ambassador to the US, the state department has...

The Mexican border town of Guadalupe has been left with no police force after the last...

Transport workers in Bolivia have begun an indefinite strike, called in protest at an increase of...

LIMA, Peru – A top diplomat says Washington has apologized to Peru for leaked diplomatic cables...

ACAPULCO, Mexico – Police in the Mexican resort of Acapulco found the decapitated bodies of two...

Voodoo priests in Haiti are being lynched by mobs who blame them for spreading cholera, the...

HAVANA – Cuba's state-run media is reporting that the government will publish Spanish translations of diplomatic...

The National Assembly, which is dominated by supporters of President Hugo Chávez, has passed a bill...

Congress voted Wednesday to impose strict new limits on transferring detainees out of the Guantánamo Bay...

An Army National Guard helicopter has crashed off the northern coast of Puerto Rico, killing one...

The parliament in Venezuela has approved a law which will tighten the rules regulating internet content.Under...