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Landslides triggered by a volcanic eruption injured nine people and destroyed more than 20 homes and five bridges in southwest Colombia, prompting a red alert for more activity.
An internal investigation by the CIA found that agency officials engaged in a cover-up to hide agency negligence in the downing of a private airplane over Peru in 2001 as part of a mistaken attack on an aircraft suspected of carrying illegal narcotics.
Voters in Venezuela's Barinas state symbolize the support President Hugo Chávez has thrived on. But his following is no longer fanatical.
Dapper in a gray suit and cap, Wencelao Espino Gonzales gazed at the pink walls of this capital city's historic Plaza de Acho -- the second oldest bullring in the world -- and explained his lifelong passion for bullfighting.
With his control of the political system at stake, the president has been campaigning furiously across the country
Police tear-gassed protesters Thursday as a crackdown on illegal investment schemes exposed class divisions in Colombian society. Rather than see President Alvaro Uribe as their savior, many investors were taking the other side.
Post-election violence in Nicaragua could continue after upcoming elections in Venezuela, experts said.
Sunday's elections in Venezuela will be a key test for President Hugo Chávez a year after voters def...
Peru's president is seizing every opportunity at this week's Pacific Rim economic summit to sell his countr...
For the first time in years, Venezuela's political opposition is poised to break President Hugo Chávez's ne...
Aerial spraying is still the preferred method of coca eradication in Colombia, but the use of manual labore...
For generations, Vodou practitioners in rural Haiti have sworn by the mystic qualities of Jatropha, an indi...
The titles of her songs speak volumes: Wicked Men, Low Blow, Pure Pain and Hypocrite. Then there's her mega...
With oil enriching Venezuela's coffers, President Hugo Chávez is lavishing billions on other countries, boo...
What happens to Venezuela's state oil company will ripple through Latin America and South Florida -- and co...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has promised billions in aid to Nicaragua, but some question whethe...
In an apparent effort to directly reach Americans, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is helping the p...
Cuba said Friday that right-hander Yadel Martí, who was named top pitcher at the inaugural World Bas...
A women's group presented thousands of signatures Thursday petitioning Cuba's parliament to close the gap i...
A Cuban man who lost both of his arms -- after he tried to escape from prison following a failed attempt to...
On Jan. 1, 2009, the Cuban Revolution marks its 50th anniversary. Three weeks later, Barack Obama will step...
The relatives of Edmundo Ponce de Leon say he was one of the hijackers of a Miami-Cuba flight in 1958 that ...
China's President Hu Jintao made a landmark visit to Cuba Tuesday, bearing millions of dollars in aid and p...
The Cayman Islands is apparently no paradise for the new interim police chief. Royce Hipgrave decided he di...
Jamaica's unemployment rate is about to get worse. The country already has had nearly 12 percent unemployme...
Citing several back-to-back tragedies in Haiti and a new U.S. president soon to move into the White House, ...
The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs -- he weighed less than 20 pounds, even after days of drinking e...
Emergency officials say a 19-year-old Haitian schoolgirl died of a heart attack after students panicked tha...
At least two people died in a helicopter crash between the Haitian coastal cities of St. Marc and Gonaives,...
Jamaica says it will not renew a contract for a former Scotland Yard detective who was brought in to reduce...
Prices for Venezuelan oil reached their lowest level in 22 months Friday as fears of a global recession sta...
Heavy rains unleashed flooding and mudslides in Venezuela that killed at least eight people, including four...
With long sideburns and black curly locks hanging over his ears and collar, Gustavo Dudamel looks more like...
Nueve fallecidos y unas 300 familias damnificadas dejaron las precipitaciones que azotaron la capital, el c...
The voyage of the cruiser Peter the Great, scheduled to arrive in Venezuela next week with a squadron of ot...
Voters in Venezuela's Barinas state symbolize the support President Hugo Chávez has thrived on. But ...
Aerial spraying is still the preferred method of coca eradication in Colombia, but the use of manual labore...
Obama, Democrats should support deal with close ally
Below are excerpts from Amnesty International's 2008 report on the state of human rights in Colombia. In Co...
For months the sometimes headless bodies, cut up by chain-saws, washed up on the banks of the muddy Cauca R...
Inquiry finds the Colombian army killed slum dwellers, then said bodies were those of guerrillas
A Colombian man, believed to be a major narcotics trafficker who threatened the lives of federal law enforc...
If you think that recent U.S. economic infatuation with Asia is a product of the pre-crisis U.S. consumptio...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- One of the first issues President-elect Barack Obama's transition team will lo...
The big question in Washington's Latin American diplomatic circles is who will be the Obama administration'...
Congratulations, President-elect Barack Obama! Now that you are moving swiftly to put together your Cabinet...
Andres Oppenheimer aoppenheimer@MiamiHerald.com One of the biggest questions about President-elect Barack O...
One of the big surprises of Tuesday's elections: Florida's Hispanic population voted heavily for Democratic...
Here are two scenarios of what could happen if the polls are right and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama wins Tu...
Evo Morales, the charismatic but controversial president of Bolivia, this week came to Washington for the f...
One of the main gains of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua nearly 30 years ago was a system of free an...
On Jan. 1, 2009, the Cuban Revolution marks its 50th anniversary. Three weeks later, Barack Obama will step...
The aging former leader of Cuba has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church. It gets worse. As Castro writes, ...
President Bush has stymied a strong push by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to engage Iran and Cuba mor...
Unlike his close allies in Moscow, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez dispatched a cheerful message to Barack Obama af...
On the same day that American voters elected Barack Obama the 44th president of the United States, Bolivian...
La forma en que el presidente colombiano Alvaro Uribe recientemente cesó a varios militares se&ntild...
La Policía decomisó el viernes un helicóptero que ocho hombres armados, tres cubanos y...
La autoridad mexicana que investiga el desplome del pequeño jet en el que murió el secretario...
La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CorteIDH) informó el viernes que realizará un pe...
Miles de activistas sandinistas llegaron a la capital nicaragüense para celebrar la victoria en los co...
Unos 134 representantes de entes electorales de la región, académicos y especialistas en info...
El presidente Martín Torrijos viaja el sábado a Madrid para una visita oficial, durante la cu...
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