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.
In April, Puerto Rico’s finance officials warned the U.S. territory could shut down in three months unless it secured a workable financing deal. As it stand now Puerto Rico has a debt of $73 billion.
In a gruesome sign that the culture of kidnapping and cartel style murder that permeates Mexico has seeped into the psyches of the country’s young, authorities have revealed that a six-year-old boy has been murdered by five other children while playing out a game of kidnap.
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.
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.
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.
