Venezuelans have been in a rush to unload their depreciating currency, and this has in turn led to a devastating drop in its value, leading the the troubled country closer to an outbreak of hyperinflation.
On Friday, at least 43 people died during a three-hour long gun battle between federal forces and suspected drug gang gunmen on a ranch in western Mexico.
In a move that many Salvadorean Catholics have considered long overdue, Oscar Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop who was murdered during the 1980-92 civil war, has finally been beatified.
In addition to taking historic steps to normalize U.S. and Cuban relations, President Barack Obama may become the first sitting U.S. president to visit Havana in decades.
A small plane that had apparently taken off from Venezuela and carried more than a ton of cocaine on Wednesday crashed off the coast of Colombia. The aircraft had been pursued by the Colombian military.
U.S. and Cuban government officials confirmed diplomatic talks regarding respective embassies have stalled following the fourth round of discussions between both countries.
In a recent interview, President Barack Obama continued to defend the U.S. strategy in defeating ISIS in the Middle East despite the fact that ISIS militants have expanded their territory and recently seized the Iraqi city of Ramadi.
In an effort to alleviate Puerto Rico’s current economic woes, the U.S. territory just passed legislation on Thursday that would increase their sales tax from 7 percent to 11.5 percent.
Conan O'Brien recently met with CNN's Anderson Cooper at the Paley Center for Media in New York to discuss his recent visit to Cuba in March. O'Brien's show was the first in the last five decades to visit the country.
On Thursday police in Mexico discovered at least three dismembered bodies belonging to middle aged men in a cemetery near the southern city of Chilapa. The butchered corpses were wrapped in blankets.
As everything seems to be cooling down between the U.S. and Cuba, inhabitants of the communist island appear to be showing their support for the easing of tension between the two nations by wearing a lot of American Flag inspired clothing
Diosdado Cabello, widely considered the second most powerful man in embattled President Nicolás Maduro's administration, on Tuesday emphatically denied media reports that he and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials were involved in the international drug trade.
The Michoacan's Attorney General Jose Martin Godoy Castro announced via statement that his investigation into the death of Yurecuaro mayoral candidate Enrique Hernandez has tied the local police chief, his deputy, as well as another underling to the political murder.
North Korea claimed on Wednesday that it has been able to miniaturize nuclear warheads, making them small enough to fit on a missile. If verified, the development would "mark a major advance in the country's military capabilities and the threat it can pose to the world," the newspaper judged.
Against all likelihood, an 11-month-old infant was discovered alive, buried face-down in the mud, more than a mile from where he had been sleeping when the flash flood swept through town of Salgar, killing his family.
Nicaraguan officials have denied entry to a French cartoonist who had been scheduled to speak on a panel paying homage to the controversial magazine. The government did not explain why the artist was not allowed in the country.
U.S. and Cuban government officials will host another round of diplomatic talks from Washington, D.C. on Thursday. As the U.S. State Department recognized, the latest talks will be the fourth round of discussions to reestablish diplomatic relations.
As relations between the U.S. and Cuba seem to be cooling down, Elian has expressed his desire to come back to the country that didn’t want to let him go.
