Several Latin American governments have been challenging various approaches to the war on drugs, traditionally pushed by the United States. Countries like Colombia, Chile, and Bolivia are "just saying no" to -- or at least severely modifying -- long held U.S. anti-drug strategies employed in the region like prohibition, the eradication of narcotics-producing crops, and presenting a unified militarized front against growers.
Colombian authorities recovered the prized first-edition copy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" after it was plucked from a showcase at the International Book Fair in Bogota, said officials.
While expressing his belief that homosexuality was not a sin at a university conference on gay marriage and adoption this past Thursday, Colombian Bishop Juan Vicente Cordoba managed to offend traditional Catholics, as well as the homosexuals he was trying to welcome into the church.
Unable to re-enter the country they were trying to escape, 38 Cuban migrants who had intended to sail to the U.S. remain aboard a U.S. Coast Guard vessel where they wait to see if and when they will be allowed back on Cuban soil.
After a three-day search, the remains of a U.S. military helicopter delivering aid in Nepal was found in shambles on a high mountain on Friday. The eight passengers, 6 Marines and two Nepalese soldiers, are believed to have perished.
On Thursday Maamoun Abdulkarim, a Syrian official, called upon the international community to help in protecting the 2,000-year-old ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra, which was being threatened by advancing Isis militants.
The president of Venezuela's National Assembly - widely considered embattled President Nicolás Maduro's most powerful internal adversary - is asking courts to bar news executives from leaving the country while he is suing them for alleged defamation.
More than 160,000 people living in and near San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, will have access to water only every other day after the U.S. territory's government imposed strict water rationing on Wednesday.
Music-streaming service Spotify is eyeing an expansion into Latin American markets, and the way to do that, the company says, is by integrating itself into consumers' phone contracts.
From the Islamic State militant group, climate change and finances millennials have a varied view on the issues based on polling data from Harvard University Institute of Politics (IOP).
On Wednesday Uruguay's foreign Rodolfo Nin Novoa minister asserted that President Jose Mujica's decision to welcome six newly freed Guantanamo detainees and 42 Syrians to his country was an act that lacked any foresight.
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was a creative genius, an intellect who was ahead of her time, a strong woman who was unabashedly herself and unafraid to show her true colors, her rawness and vulnerability with the world.Yet the same time, there was another piece to her beautifully complex artistic realm where the enlightened yet tormented muse intensely connected with the natural world. A place where plants and animals represented innovative scientific, worldly and personal themes and personal connections.
In April, when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited Havana, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute finalized an agreement with Cuba’s Center for Molecular Immunology to develop a lung cancer vaccine and initiate clinical trials in the U.S.
This past Saturday Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced that he would be putting a stop to the use of herbicide that has been a fundamental part of U.S.-financed attempts to kill coca crops.
Cuba is ready to name an ambassador to the United States by the end of the month, the Communist country's leader, Raúl Castro, said on Tuesday. President Obama "may" have chosen the U.S. ambassador to the island.
Since Obama’s decision to reopen ties with Cuba, Airbnb Inc -- a website designed to help travelers share their rooms -- has become the communist country’s fastest-growing market.
The regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un used an anti-aircraft gun to execute the country's defense minister, Hyon Yong Chol, South Korean media reports. This is not the first time an "enemy" of the regime has been executed in such a manner.
