Hugo Chavez was on a hug-and-make-up visit to Spain on Friday, his first since last year's infamous exchange in which Spain's normally reserved monarch told the voluble Venezuelan leader to "shut up" at a summit in Chile.
The International Committee of the Red Cross announced Thursday that it arranged for the release Wednesday of eight civilians held for a week by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
A special assembly on Thursday approved a new draft constitution granting Ecuador's leftist president broad powers, including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and freeing him to run for office through 2017.
Ecuador's government seized television stations and nearly 200 other businesses Tuesday for debts stemming from bank failures in the 1990s. The economy minister resigned hours after the takeover.
A former army commander in Argentina was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for his role in the kidnapping, torture and death of four activists in 1977.
A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four leftist activists.
Colombia's minister of defense has admitted that two of the nine people involved in this month's daring rescue of 15 hostages held by Colombian rebels were pretending to be working for a Venezuela-based television news organization.
Two people who helped rescue 15 hostages from Colombian rebels posed as journalists from a real Venezuela-based television news organization, Colombia's defense minister said Wednesday.
Adoption officials said DNA tests indicate a Guatemalan baby reported stolen from her mother was being adopted by a U.S. couple, the first strong sign that the Central American nation's troubled adoption system relied in part on abducted children.
Argentina's state news agency said the president's top aide has resigned following the Senate's rejection of a government-backed export tax hike.
Hugo Chavez was on a hug-and-make-up visit to Spain on Friday, his first since last year's infamous exchange in which Spain's normally reserved monarch told the voluble Venezuelan leader to "shut up" at a summit in Chile.
The International Committee of the Red Cross announced Thursday that it arranged for the release Wednesday of eight civilians held for a week by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
A special assembly on Thursday approved a new draft constitution granting Ecuador's leftist president broad powers, including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and freeing him to run for office through 2017.
Ecuador's government seized television stations and nearly 200 other businesses Tuesday for debts stemming from bank failures in the 1990s. The economy minister resigned hours after the takeover.
A former army commander in Argentina was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for his role in the kidnapping, torture and death of four activists in 1977.
A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison on Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four leftist activists.
Colombia's minister of defense has admitted that two of the nine people involved in this month's daring rescue of 15 hostages held by Colombian rebels were pretending to be working for a Venezuela-based television news organization.
Two people who helped rescue 15 hostages from Colombian rebels posed as journalists from a real Venezuela-based television news organization, Colombia's defense minister said Wednesday.
Adoption officials said DNA tests indicate a Guatemalan baby reported stolen from her mother was being adopted by a U.S. couple, the first strong sign that the Central American nation's troubled adoption system relied in part on abducted children.
Argentina's state news agency said the president's top aide has resigned following the Senate's rejection of a government-backed export tax hike.
South Korean officials say five South Koreans who were kidnapped while driving in a Mexican border city have been set free.
Osama bin Laden's former driver knew the target of one of the hijacked planes on September 11, 2001, prosecutors said as the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan began Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Moscow Tuesday to discuss a deal to spend billions on Russia weapons.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called for a strategic alliance with Russia to protect the South American country from the United States.
The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence on Monday that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected to "highly coercive" conditions in Afghanistan.
More than a million Colombians, clad in white and shouting "No more kidnapping," marked their independence day on Sunday with marches and concerts demanding freedom for hostages still held by leftist rebels.
Bus company authorities say 22 people have been killed in the crash of two buses north of Peru's capital.
One of five feet that have mysteriously washed up on the shores of British Columbia over the past year has been linked to a depressed man who disappeared a year ago, police said Saturday.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is dropping an agricultural export tax that has provoked months of protests from farmers, a spokesman said Friday.
Tropical Storm Fausto has become a hurricane far off Mexico's Pacific coast, while two other tropical storms churn over the open ocean.
Colombian military intelligence apparently set up a Web site for a fake humanitarian group as part of a ruse to dupe leftist rebels into giving up 15 hostages this month.
Living Green is getting ready to do a special live segment, coming up on August 7, 2008 As usual, green expert Sara Snow will be with us.
The world's top Nazi-hunter said Thursday he's made progress in finding 94-year-old "Doctor Death," a former concentration camp physician accused of torturing Jewish prisoners as they died and who may have been living for decades in Argentina or Chile.
Tropical Storm Fausto strengthened early Thursday well off the coast of the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, while Hurricane Elida weakened as it moved away from Baja California in the Pacific.
With Argentina's vice president casting the deciding vote, the country's Senate on Thursday narrowly defeated an increase on an agricultural export tax, which has provoked months of farmers' rebellion.
Argentina's Senate rejected a controversial grain-export tax package early Thursday, dealing a blow to the government on a key issue that has led to nationwide farm strikes and regional food shortages.
Mexico's navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted Wednesday that the symbol of the neutral Red Cross organization was used in a hostage rescue mission that freed 15 people from leftist rebels two weeks ago.
The U.N.'s highest court on Wednesday ordered U.S. authorities to do everything in their power to halt the executions of five Mexicans on death row in Texas until their cases are reviewed.
A Bolivian navy captain says a boat has sunk after hitting another vessel during the night on Lake Titicaca. Six people are reported dead.
Colombian military intelligence used the Red Cross emblem in a rescue operation in which leftist guerrillas were duped into handing over 15 hostages, according to unpublished photographs and video viewed by CNN.
Tens of thousands of Argentine farmers and government supporters are staging dueling protests ahead of a Senate vote Wednesday on controversial farm taxes.
A 16-year-old Canadian prisoner weeps and buries his face in his hands in an interrogation video that provides the first public look at such an interview at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters who stormed past barricades Tuesday near the National Palace during a rally to mark the 55th birthday of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The highest-rated TV show in Colombia follows a rather grim plot line: Boy meets girl. Boy smuggles tons of cocaine. Longtime pals betray each other. Everyone ends up dead or in jail.
President Nicolas Sarkozy pinned the Legion of Honor -- France's highest award -- on former hostage Ingrid Betancourt on Monday, praising her courage and saying: "We love you."
Three Americans rescued last week from captivity in the Colombian jungle will return to their homes Saturday, the U.S. Army South said.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe took a stab at mending relations Friday after months of sniping that threatened billions of dollars in trade and unleashed a diplomatic crisis between Latin America's top U.S. opponent and closest U.S. ally.
Between the mortgage crisis, record high oil prices and a lackluster stock market, Americans are not exactly confident about the economy. CNN spoke with world affairs analyst and author Fareed Zakaria about his view of the situation.
A two-engine airplane crashed shortly after takeoff Thursday in a southern Chilean city, killing all nine people aboard, including a small boy.
Ingrid Betancourt says death was her "everyday companion" during the six years she was a hostage of a leftist rebel group in Colombia.
The husband of rescued Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt says their marriage may be over.
The United States has formally requested the extradition of two Colombian guerrillas who were detained last week in a mission that freed 15 hostages, including three U.S. defense contractors and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.
At least two members of the Colombian rebel group FARC were offered money to switch sides and deliver bogus orders as part of last week's rescue of 15 FARC hostages, a source close to Colombian military intelligence told CNN Wednesday.
It's been almost three years since Hurricane Katrina cut a merciless path of destruction across the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people and displacing tens of thousands more.
Two guerrillas who were detained last week in a mission that freed 15 hostages -- including three U.S. defense contractors -- may soon face a judge in the United States.
The new leader of a rebel group in Colombia proposed peace talks with the government in a message made public Tuesday.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has strong evidence that a former SS member known as "Dr. Death" is in southern Chile or Argentina, a top Nazi hunter for the human rights organization said Tuesday.
Mexico City's police chief resigned Tuesday in the wake of a June 20 nightclub raid that sparked a stampede that killed 12 people.
Police say at least 46 people were killed when a truck carrying farmers plunged 650 feet (200 meters) into a ravine in Bolivia's southern Andes.
An earthquake hit southern Peru early Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The hostages held alongside Ingrid Betancourt in the Colombian jungle endured years of deprivation and abuse from the leftist rebels who kidnapped them, according to one former captive.
Police on Monday found six charred bodies on a Tijuana street following a bloody weekend that left 14 people dead.
A flower-laden U.S. cargo plane headed for Miami crashed near the Colombian capital on Monday, killing two people on the ground, according to local authorities.
They were chained by their necks as punishment -- sometimes to a tree or post -- other times to each other.
A cargo jet crashed Sunday just west of Monterrey, Mexico, killing the pilot and injuring the co-pilot, a company representative said.
Colombia showed video Friday of an orderly mission that ended in hugs and laughter for 15 hostages who were rescued from a Colombian guerilla group this week.
The three Americans rescued after more than five years in captivity in Colombia say they are doing well but are "overwhelmed with emotion," according to a statement released on their behalf.
Rescue crews recovered 29 bodies Friday from a raging, rain-fed river that swept a bus carrying members of an evangelical church off a bridge in El Salvador's capital.
The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt hugged the children she hadn't seen for six years Thursday, and marveled at how they'd grown.
Government agents posing as rebels tricked a gang of armed desperados into handing over 15 hostages during a rendezvous deep in Colombia's unforgiving jungle.
The three Americans rescued Wednesday after more than five years in captivity in the jungles of Colombia appear to be in good health, doctors said Thursday.
Venezuela is denying Washington's accusations that drug trafficking has increased due to a lack of cooperation with the United States.
Secret agents posing as leftist rebels hoodwinked insurgents and freed 15 hostages from the jungles of Colombia by pretending an "international mission" was on its way to visit the hostages, authorities in Colombia say.
Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt has described her rescue from leftist rebels as "a miracle" and "a moment of pride" in Colombia.
In a secret operation a U.S. official called "brilliant," the Colombian military infiltrated rebel group FARC and deceived its members into giving up 15 hostages including former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia's defense ministry said.
The relatives of three U.S. government contractors who were rescued in Colombia rejoiced as the men boarded a plane home Wednesday.
Cuba on Wednesday accused U.S. diplomats of instigating opponents of the communist-run government to hold public protests to mark American Independence Day.
A Venezuelan army general protesting the "socialism or death" motto of President Hugo Chavez has been released from military detention, but he still could be charged with a crime, his attorney said Wednesday.
Videos showing Leon police practicing torture techniques on a fellow officer and dragging another through vomit at the instruction of a U.S. adviser created an uproar Tuesday in Mexico, which has struggled to eliminate torture in law enforcement.
An attorney says Venezuela's military has detained a dissident army general who opposes the socialist ideology espoused by President Hugo Chavez.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia said he's fed up with the Bolivian President Evo Morales for allegedly spreading rumors about U.S. military bases in Peru and encouraging a national strike July 9.
A red stream of lava flowed down the flanks of the Llaima volcano in southern Chile on Tuesday, and officials said they evacuated about a dozen people.
Forecasters say a tropical storm in the Pacific is now a hurricane over the ocean far to the west of Mexico.
The trial of former President Alberto Fujimori opened here Monday with his former intelligence chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, declaring his boss innocent of the charges he faces.
A judge says he has imposed two sentences of life in prison on the security chief for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Peru's once-feared former spymaster testified Monday that ex-President Alberto Fujimori had nothing to do with the death squad killings with which he is charged.
Twelve million honey bees have been released onto Canada's largest highway in northwest New Brunswick after a transport truck overturned.
A helicopter carrying two Guatemalan cabinet ministers crashed Friday in the northern part of the country, killing all four people aboard, a presidential spokesman said.
President Evo Morales says he is "proud" of coca growers in Bolivia's Chapare region for expelling a U.S. government aid agency amid charges it backs his government's opponents.
Cuts in Haitian gasoline subsidies pushed the price of fuel to $6.14 a gallon on Thursday, further burdening an impoverished people, as the government redirected money to other programs.
Two Mexican federal officers involved in the drug fight and one of their bodyguards were shot dead and two others were wounded Thursday as they ate lunch in a restaurant in the capital, federal officials said.
The man who oversaw the police raid on a Mexico City nightclub on Friday during which 12 people were killed was charged with 12 counts of homicide, prosecutors said.
Three men accused last year of a plot to bomb New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport were headed to the United States late Tuesday after their fight against extradition from Trinidad and Tobago was rejected by an appeals court there, Trinidad and U.S. officials said.
The fight against narcotraffickers is showing good results, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said, a day after authorities linked 38 deaths nationwide to the drug war.
The fight against narcotraffickers is showing good results, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said, a day after authorities linked 38 deaths nationwide to the drug war.
Paraguay's Senate failed to muster a quorum Tuesday, thereby frustrating President Nicanor Duarte Frutos's bid to resign two months before the end of his term to join that same legislative body.
Colombian authorities said a landslide has killed at least 10 people, including three children.
Ontario's Special Investigations Unit is probing the death of a man who collapsed after a confrontation in which provincial police officers used a Taser on him.
A new case of mad cow disease was confirmed in Canada, its 13th case since 2003.
Colombia's main rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has released a video of an abducted congressman as proof the politician is alive.
Paraguay's President Nicanor Duarte offered Congress his resignation Monday, two months before his term is slated to end.
Police involved in a raid that sparked a fatal stampede at a nightclub in northern Mexico City on Friday have been suspended, and an investigation into the incident is under way, officials said Saturday.
Ten people were fatally trampled Friday night during a raid on a nightclub in northern Mexico City, police said.
Paraguayan officials have put down a prison riot by agreeing to inmates' demands for more sex.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened not to sell oil to European Union countries that follow new rules on immigration, but oil analysts said the threat was largely symbolic since no European country buys oil from Venezuela.
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