The first day of freedom for 15 hostages rescued after up to a decade in the hands of terrorist rebels was filled with jubilant hugs and tears, plus the deafening roar of resounding cheers.
First Ingrid Betancourt hopes to fly to France. Then she thinks she might run for president. But first, the former hostage had to hug her kids.
U.S. HOSTAGES
Kyle Stansell was sitting on a Sarasota beach hanging out with two buddies when the news he has waited five years to hear finally arrived.
COLOMBIA
The rescuers came wearing Che Guevara T-shirts and logos declaring them delegates of some obscure organization. They didn't look much like an international humanitarian brigade. And they weren't.
While President Bush is urging members of Congress to approve funding for the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, one Caribbean leader wants his colleagues to also ante up.
John McCain said he learned in advance on the eve of the Colombian hostage rescue operation that it would happen -- from President Alvaro Uribe.
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
The U.S. Embassy on Wednesday distanced itself from police training videos showing Mexican officers applying apparent torture methods on other officers as an American instructor barks orders.
CARICOM MEETING
Organization of American States Secretary General José Miguel Insulza says his group has no plans to interfere in Haiti's internal affairs, even amid growing fears that the Caribbean nation may be headed toward deeper instability if it doesn't soon appoint a new prime minister.
COLOMBIA
John McCain hailed the economic benefits of free trade to Colombians Wednesday, raising the possibility of an eventual hemispheric-wide agreement even though a weak economy at home has soured many U.S. voters on trade agreements.
Destination: One Caribbean? Their tourism-driven economies battered by a stagnant U.S. economy, expensive jet fuel and airline cutbacks, Caribbean leaders Wednesday agreed to launch a $60 million campaign to market their sun-baked region as one tourism destination.
John McCain denied a Republican colleague's claim that he roughed up an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on a diplomatic mission in 1987, saying the allegation was "simply not true."
The head of the Organization of American States says it has no plans to intervene in Haiti's internal affairs, despite growing fears that the Caribbean nation may be headed toward deeper instability if it doesn't appoint a new prime minister soon.
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Two years after an ultra-close election plunged Mexico into a summer of conflict, new evidence has emerged that casts further doubt on the results of the 2006 presidential election that declared Felipe Calderon the winner.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mayor Fernando Fischer was beaming in early March when his small town in Santa Fe Province hosted 200,000 visitors for a giant international farm show. Vendors fanned out over 1,200 acres of farmland, displaying everything from harvesting combines to the latest crop seeds. Sales for local companies were brisk.
John McCain's trip here Tuesday was part of an unusual three-day presidential campaign swing to Latin America with a dual message for voters back home.
Panama's Supreme Court overturned Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles' 2004 presidential pardon, a ruling that could eventually land the controversial former CIA operative back in jail.
CARIBBEAN
At a time when the Caribbean is facing some of its toughest challenges -- high grocery bills, rising energy costs and airline cutbacks -- regional leaders opened a four-day summit here calling for a more stepped up, unified vision.
Republican John McCain planned to tour a Colombian port by boat Wednesday to get a firsthand look at the country's drug interdiction programs, a day after he praised President Alvaro Uribe for Colombia's anti-drug efforts but pressed him to improve the government's record on human rights.
Like all things on politically charged Puerto Rico, an archaeological discovery got caught up in a sovereignty debate: If a site rich in historic and cultural value is discovered in a federal construction site in Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States, who should be in charge of it?
WASHINGTON POST
Sen. John McCain spoke at length about his upcoming trip to Latin America and approach to international affairs during a ride on his Straight Talk Express bus to Pipersville, Pa.
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