Two new massacres in Venezuelan territory could raise the number of Colombians killed in recent weeks in Venezuela to at least 20, according to officials in both countries.
Charles Shapiro, the senior advisor for economic initiatives in the State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, is slated to be among the dozens of speakers at a three-day conference starting Wednesday in Miami Beach on Cuba and other international issues.
Juanita Castro was recruited by the CIA in 1961 through her friend Virginia Leitao de Cunha, wife of the Brazilian ambassador in Havana, but refused to conspire in any attempts on the lives of her brothers Fidel and Raśl Castro
Haitian senators want to oust the country's prime minister, claiming she has moved too slowly in addressing crucial problems.
Fidel Castro's younger sister, Juanita, now living in Miami, reveals in a Univisión-Noticias 23 report on her new book that she worked with the CIA while living in Cuba.
The Pan American Development Foundation will raise money for Haiti and recognize regional heroes at a Saturday luncheon.
An exhibit in Bogotá features harrowing images from Colombia's decades of conflict, all painted by people who saw it firsthand -- former combatants.
A congressional hearing in Washington focused on the persecution of human rights defenders in Colombia.
Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya say the waning attention to their rallies underscores a new urgency for their mission.
Relief workers fear that the rainy season in Guatemala hasn't done enough to stem a drought that's exacerbating malnutrition.
While Cuba recently gave a State Department official permission to visit jailed U.S.-Cuban citizens, travel restrictions remain in place.
Facing a severe and protracted economic downturn, Cuba's government is scaling back socialism in an attempt to save it.
A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize.
The global recession has attracted more prostitutes and patrons to Costa Rica, where sex tourism thrives.
Bills in Congress to allow all travel to Cuba are increasingly drawing support among U.S. lawmakers and the public -- but they still face an uncertain future.
Investigators in Curacao are asking the public for help solving the disappearance of an American diplomat whose bloodied clothes were found last month on one of the Caribbean island's beaches.
Argentina's president and the nation's largest media conglomerate square off over a media-reform bill that could have a big impact on press freedom.
The two sides in the Honduran political conflict had direct talks for the first time in almost three months.
A trio of South Florida Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that the remedy to the post-coup woes in Honduras lies in U.S. support of next month's scheduled elections.
Some children check in. Others don't get to.
Those who make it to the Nicolasa Cruz hospital do so because a parent cobbled together enough money. Others leave because the cash ran out. And others avoid the general hospital altogether because their parents can't afford the pennies it takes to travel here.
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