Days after Cuba celebrated the 62nd anniversary of Fidel Castro's first offensive in the communist rebellion, the United States has removed the island nation from its list of countries that have failed to combat human trafficking.
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On Monday Colombian authorities began excavation work at a landfill on the outskirts of the city of Medellin, in the hopes of uncovering the corpses of civilians that disappeared during Colombia's recent civil war.
Brazilian banks are currently forecasting another economic contraction for the South American country in 2016. When this takes place, it will mark the first time that Brazil’s economy shrank in two consecutive years since since the Great Depression.
On Sunday the communist island country of Cuba marked the 62nd anniversary of Fidel Castro's first armed move against former dictator Fulgencio Batista.
People living in Guzmán’s hometown of Badiraguato are used to speaking about the drug lord’s kindness. "El Chapo" enjoys a kind of reputation for largesse in the poverty stricken community.
Sunday is the 62nd anniversary of the first offensive Fidel Castro's guerrillas made against Cuba’s then dictator Fulgencio Batista. The 1953 rebellion brought down Batista and altered the ideological aims of the island nation a mere five years later.
Turkey has attacked Islamic State targets in Syria, joining the fight against the Islamic extremist group. The Turkish Air Force released a video taken from the attacking F-16s.
North Korea has built a 220-foot launch tower at its missile base. The new tower is capable of launching a longer-range missile than the rocket test-fired back in 2012.
The unnerving image of what are being dubbed “mutant daisies” has gone viral and could show the aftermath of the nuclear disaster that befell the area four years ago.
In 1986, Rodrigo Rojas, a 19-year-old politically engaged student and photographer, was burned alive during a Santiago street demonstration directed at General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Decades later the men culpable for his death are being brought to justice.
A United Nations office in Guatemala on Tuesday decried that a major river, Rio La Pasión, in the Central American country has been heavily contaminated with pesticides.
Despite the surge of violence that continues to rattle El Salvador, the country's National Civil Police (PNC) "will not negotiate nor hold talks with gangs," the force's deputy chief said on Monday.
