A man who was detained during Chile's "dirty war" in 1973 and declared dead in 1995 showed up in his old hometown very much alive last week, a human rights group in Santiago has announced.
Dozens of families frightened by aftershocks slept outside overnight Wednesday after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook coastal Panama near the border with Costa Rica.
China's president signed trade deals with communist ally Cuba and agreed to help it modernize its ports and hospitals on Tuesday, part of a Latin America trip on which Chinese businessmen have been snapping up raw materials.
Wearing a floaty, flowery dress doesn't convey the traditional image of power, yet when it's designed by Diane von Furstenberg, somehow, inexplicably, it does.
The Colombian government declared a state of emergency Monday, allowing officials to take over businesses that used pyramid schemes to steal millions of dollars from 3 million investors.
Open any fashion magazine and you're instantly bombarded with a collection of blindingly beautiful celebrities, bedazzled with shimmering jewels and perfectly coiffed "messy hair."
A Canadian man helped kill his 12-year-old girlfriend's parents and younger brother because the girl told him it was the only way they could be together, a prosecutor said on the first day of the man's trial.
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching the waters off western Puerto Rico for a boat that is reportedly missing with at least 40 Dominican migrants on board, a spokesman said Monday.
Nearly half a million public employees went on strike throughout Chile on Monday over a wage dispute.
The sole survivor of a plane crash that killed seven others told his rescuers that he scrambled away as the wreckage exploded behind him.
A man who was detained during Chile's "dirty war" in 1973 and declared dead in 1995 showed up in his old hometown very much alive last week, a human rights group in Santiago has announced.
Dozens of families frightened by aftershocks slept outside overnight Wednesday after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook coastal Panama near the border with Costa Rica.
China's president signed trade deals with communist ally Cuba and agreed to help it modernize its ports and hospitals on Tuesday, part of a Latin America trip on which Chinese businessmen have been snapping up raw materials.
Wearing a floaty, flowery dress doesn't convey the traditional image of power, yet when it's designed by Diane von Furstenberg, somehow, inexplicably, it does.
The Colombian government declared a state of emergency Monday, allowing officials to take over businesses that used pyramid schemes to steal millions of dollars from 3 million investors.
Open any fashion magazine and you're instantly bombarded with a collection of blindingly beautiful celebrities, bedazzled with shimmering jewels and perfectly coiffed "messy hair."
A Canadian man helped kill his 12-year-old girlfriend's parents and younger brother because the girl told him it was the only way they could be together, a prosecutor said on the first day of the man's trial.
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching the waters off western Puerto Rico for a boat that is reportedly missing with at least 40 Dominican migrants on board, a spokesman said Monday.
Nearly half a million public employees went on strike throughout Chile on Monday over a wage dispute.
The sole survivor of a plane crash that killed seven others told his rescuers that he scrambled away as the wreckage exploded behind him.
Suspected Shining Path rebels ambushed a police patrol in a drug-smuggling zone in southern Peru on Sunday, killing three police officers with submachine guns and injuring one, officials said.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has arrived in Algeria at the start of a six-day North African trip aimed at boosting economic ties.
A small tribe of Indians in Paraguay who have had virtually no contact with the outside world won a legal battle this week when rights groups stopped a Brazilian company from continuing to bulldoze the forest to clear land for cattle ranches.
The Lear jet that crashed on landing last week in Mexico City, killing all aboard, including Mexico's interior minister, may have been felled by the turbulence from a large passenger jet it was following too closely, the nation's transportation secretary said Friday, citing results of a preliminary investigation.
A presidential veto has kept Uruguay from having South America's most liberal abortion law.
On the day President-elect Obama visited the White House, a new national poll suggested that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first measured more than six decades ago. Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Monday disapprove of how President Bush is handling his job. That's an all-time high in polling by CNN or Gallup dating back to World War II. CNN spoke to world affairs expert and author Fareed Zakaria to get his take on what the Republican Party should do to get back on track. CNN: If we accept that President-Elect Barack Obama and the Democrats seem to have won largely on the message of change, then why do you think Sen. John McCain and the Republicans lost?
On the day President-elect Obama visited the White House, a new national poll suggested that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first measured more than six decades ago. Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Monday disapprove of how President Bush is handling his job. That's an all-time high in polling by CNN or Gallup dating back to World War II. CNN spoke to world affairs expert and author Fareed Zakaria to get his take on what the Republican Party should do to get back on track. CNN: If we accept that President-Elect Barack Obama and the Democrats seem to have won largely on the message of change, then why do you think Sen. John McCain and the Republicans lost?
Beginning December 1, Mexico City plans to hand out free medicine to elderly men with erectile dysfunction, the local government said.
Police reporter Armando Rodriguez was shot dead Thursday morning in his car after leaving his house in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, officials said.
Children dancing and jumping in a musical at a school in Haiti's capital caused the building to partially collapse on its foundation Wednesday, a top Red Cross official said.
Fidel Castro looks thin and frail but alert in a photograph from last month posted on the Web site of the Russian Orthodox Church and obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Chile is scrambling to reach people who could be suffering from AIDS and spreading the disease.
Human rights groups from the United States and Spain filed a lawsuit in a Spanish court Thursday, charging El Salvador's former president, Alfredo Cristiani, with covering up crimes against humanity.
Nicaragua's election council will allow a review of the mayoral election in the nation's capital after opponents of the ruling Sandinista Party raised fraud allegations, the council's president said Wednesday.
The soldiers in Antelope Company's Third Platoon hadn't registered a guerrilla kill in months. And without results, they feared they wouldn't be let off base for Mother's Day.
Some of the 27 farm workers kidnapped earlier this week in northwestern Mexico are free, family members told local media Wednesday.
Brazil's Roman Catholic Church says it won't recognize more than 400 marriages performed over the past 20 years by a defrocked priest.
Bolivian officials say they have presented the United States with a formal extradition request for former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who ordered a military crackdown on 2003 riots.
Uruguay's Senate voted Tuesday to allow abortion during the first trimester, a rare step in a Latin American nation.
Haitian and international search-and-rescue officials told reporters Monday that they have done all they can to ensure no survivors remain under the rubble of a school that collapsed last week.
Rescue officials said Monday they don't expect to find any more survivors at a Haitian school that collapsed last week, indicating efforts will now be focused on recovering bodies.
President Felipe Calderon named Fernando Francisco Gomez Mont as his new interior minister Monday to replace the Cabinet member who died in a plane crash last week.
Argentina's principal carmakers have ordered some factory workers to take unpaid vacations and slashed work schedules for others after a recent drop in auto exports to Brazil and Mexico.
Mexico has a new interior secretary after a plane crash killed the country's former No. 2 leader.
Frantic relatives of people believed trapped in the rubble of a collapsed school picked at the ruins with shovels and hammers Sunday before being pushed back by police amid new safety concerns.
The death toll rose to 84 Saturday night in the collapse of a Haitian school as international aid crews continued sifting through the wreckage, a local journalist said Saturday night.
An engine fell off a Mexican government jet before it crashed, killing the second-highest official in the nation, the Cabinet member in charge of the investigation said Saturday.
At least 50 people have died in a school collapse in in Petionville, near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, officials said Friday night.
Mexico detained a former senior police official Friday as it investigates claims of high-level corruption within security forces battling powerful drug cartels.
In his victory over John McCain in the U.S. presidential election Tuesday, Barack Obama snared about 65 million votes to McCain's 57 million.
Guyana is sending soldiers into its dense western jungle to search for a missing U.S.-registered plane with three people aboard.
The death toll in a plane crash that claimed the life of Mexico's interior minister and two other high-ranking officials has risen to 13, Mexico City prosecutor Miguel Angel Mancera said Wednesday, according to Mexico's state-run Notimex news agency.
The U.S. government told CNN it suspended military aid within the last week to three Colombian army units implicated in the extrajudicial killings of at least 11 innocent civilians.
Leftist rebels announced Tuesday they have agreed to exchange letters with a self-appointed group of Colombians, including some prominent public figures, to discuss the possible release of hostages the rebels are holding.
Peru has declared a state of emergency in a southern border province, giving its army power to rein in protests that left three dead.
Honduras is postponing its presidential primaries because of bad weather.
Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino and two other top government officials were among eight people killed Tuesday when their small plane crashed in central Mexico City, President Felipe Calderon told the nation.
Mexico is charging three men with terrorism for allegedly throwing grenades into crowds of independence day revelers, an unprecedented attack on civilians that killed eight people and injured 106.
The commander of Colombia's army resigned abruptly Tuesday in a widening scandal over the killing of scores of civilians, allegedly spurred by promotion-seeking officers to inflate rebel body counts.
A retired army general is undergoing court-ordered medical tests to determine whether he can go to jail for the killing of five dissidents during Chile's 1973-90 military regime.
Virginia was braced for record turnout and long queues at voting stations as the key swing state prepared to go to the polls in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election.
A propagandist for Osama bin Laden vowed to "fight any government" of the United States after he was convicted Monday of war crimes that could put him in prison for life.
Mexico City's top prosecutor says kidnappers have killed a 5-year-old boy by injecting him with acid after his family sought police help.
On the eve of the U.S. presidential election, CNN.com International speaks to two families from opposite sides of the political divide about their hopes, expectations, concerns and fears for the election and the next four years.
Colombia's U.S.-backed security forces are engaging in "systematic and widespread" extrajudicial executions of innocent civilians as part of their counterinsurgency campaign, a top United Nations diplomat said Saturday.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa has criticized Hugo Chavez's left-wing brand of leadership, saying the Venezuelan president should learn from Poland's experience how damaging communism can be.
Beneath the tourist gondolas in the remains of a great Aztec lake lives a creature that resembles a monster -- and a Muppet -- with its slimy tail, plumage-like gills and mouth that curls into an odd smile.
Bolivian President Evo Morales said Saturday that he was suspending the work of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in Bolivia and that the government will take control of its activities in the war on drugs.
Seven members of the Mexican military were found inside the United States on Friday, telling border agents they had become disoriented while on patrol and accidentally crossed into the country, the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said.
Trailing in the polls, Sen. John McCain will travel to seven states in one day as his presidential campaign enters its final hours, the Republican nominee's campaign manager announced Friday.
Latin American leaders are urging the United States to repeal its 47-year-old trade embargo against Cuba.
An Ecuadorian presidential commission has concluded that U.S. intelligence services infiltrated the Andean nation's military and police and supported a cross-border incursion by Colombian troops that killed a top rebel commander.
Brazil's state-run oil company plans to sign an agreement with its Cuban counterpart for deep-water exploration that would allow it to produce oil on the communist-run island, part of a two-day visit by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva beginning late Thursday.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday shuffled the Cabinet of his newly re-elected government and said the focus will be on the economy.
The Colombian military said Wednesday it had fired 27 soldiers, including generals and colonels, in an investigation into the army's role into the killings of at least 11 men who disappeared from a poor Bogota suburb this year.
The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Wednesday urging the United States to repeal its trade embargo against Cuba.
A judge on Wednesday found a Canadian man guilty of participating in a thwarted plot to bomb British buildings and natural gas lines in 2004.
Mexico's Congress has passed a bill allowing private investment in the nation's state oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex.
Leftist rebels announced Tuesday they have agreed to exchange letters with a self-appointed group of Colombians, including some prominent public figures, to discuss the possible release of hostages the rebels are holding.
Ecuador's top judges faced a trial by lottery on Tuesday -- with 10 of the 31 justices set to lose their jobs by chance under a newly approved constitution. And the justices say they won't go along with it.
Amnesty International urged the United States and other nations Tuesday to halt military aid to Colombia until it stems a rise in killings of noncombatants by security forces and heeds other U.N. prescriptions for ending its long-running internal conflict.
A three-vehicle pileup on a highway in northern Peru has left 21 dead and 29 injured, police said.
A major drug cartel has infiltrated the Mexican attorney general's office, and one cartel worker says he even spied on Drug Enforcement Administration operations from inside the U.S. Embassy, Mexican prosecutors said Monday.
Setbacks in municipal elections appear to have pushed Chile's president to shake up her Cabinet.
Guyana police say an American woman has survived a deadly boat accident by clinging to a bucket that kept her afloat in the river for a day and a half.
A former Colombian congressman who was held hostage in the jungle for more than eight years has escaped -- with the help of a former captor.
Mexican authorities have arrested a reputed senior member of a major Tijuana-based drug cartel after a shootout, U.S. authorities confirmed Sunday.
U.S. stocks joined a worldwide selloff at Friday's open, with the Dow down about 400 points, as a wave of anxiety about a global recession sent investors heading for the exits.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and leaders of a massive Indian protest plan to meet Sunday in the city of Cali.
Ten suspected drug dealers have been killed in a gunbattle with police in northern Mexico across the border from Arizona, authorities said.
It is an unusual art auction where making money isn't a great concern. But that is the case this weekend when a series of paintings go on the block with the purpose of drawing attention to climate change.
The United States is suspending a trade deal with Bolivia, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted Wednesday that police fired on Indian demonstrators despite a government pledge that security forces would not do so.
A top drug cartel leader who allegedly directed cocaine trafficking through Mexico City's international airport was arrested after a shootout in the capital, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Venezuela's state news agency said three engineers have been charged with presumed involvement in a power outage across central and western Venezuela.
Colombian riot police may have fired live bullets at Indian protesters, according to a videotape that CNN obtained. The footage comes despite a government pledge that security forces would not do so.
Two men were shot to death Tuesday in a clash with riot police amid a burgeoning Indian protest in southwestern Colombia.
Argentina President Cristina Fernandez proposed a government takeover of nearly US$30 billion in private pension funds on Tuesday, saying retirees must be protected from the global financial crisis.
Bolivia's Congress approved an agreement Tuesday between the government and opposition leaders to hold a referendum on a constitution that would grant more power to the nation's Indian majority, the state news agency said.
Cuban courts are getting tough on price gouging and other post-hurricane crimes, sentencing nearly one-fourth of people arrested so far to jail sentences, state media reported Tuesday.
The Ecuadoran doctor who attended an American after he was stabbed more than 24 times on a beach in northern Ecuador says the patient was evacuated to the U.S. early Tuesday.
Police in northern Mexico have received an ice chest packed with four human heads.
Thousands of Colombian Indians plan to protest government policies on Tuesday in the country's second-largest city, marking more than a week of demonstrations against the nation's free-market economic policies.
Twenty-one prisoners died Monday in a fight between inmates at a Mexican prison across the border from McAllen, Texas, officials said.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales has joined tens of thousands of supporters marching into the country's capital to demand a vote on a new constitution.
On the night Lazaro Mendez got an alert that his boat had been stolen from the Florida Keys, he was swept up in a new chapter of the Cuban boat people drama.
A power outage briefly left much of central and western Venezuela without electricity on Sunday.
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