A strong 7.4 magnitude quake struck off the Pacific coast of Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico on Wednesday, prompting panicked evacuations, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Outraged residents of an isolated village in northern Guatemala burned alive a man who allegedly was drunk when he killed two children at a local school, authorities said Wednesday.
South American nations on Sunday backed Ecuador’s decision to grant asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, urging dialogue to end the crisis pitting Quito against London.
A powerful magnitude 6.0 quake shook southern Peru on Thursday, US seismologists said, with Peru authorities indicating no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Nearly 100 children under the age of five died of pneumonia between January and April in Peru due to a cold wave that swept through the country’s Andean region, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.
In a groundbreaking decision for the Catholic country, Argentina’s Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed that women can have an abortion if they fall pregnant after being raped.
A packed commuter train slammed into a retaining wall at a railway terminus in Buenos Aires during rush hour Wednesday, leaving at least 49 dead, 600 injured, and dozens trapped in the wreckage.
Some 2,270 people, most of them farm workers, were rescued from slave labor in Brazil last year and 294 employers found to be responsible were blacklisted, the Labor Ministry said Tuesday.
Two more people died and one was missing Monday following flooding in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais that brought the total death toll to four, civil defense officials said.
President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday signed a law banning smoking in all enclosed public spaces in Brazil.
A strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake rattled Bolivia on Tuesday, but the epicenter was deep underground and there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Two occupants of a small plane died Monday when their aircraft collided in mid-air with a military aircraft in Argentina, officials said.
Searchers on Tuesday recovered more bodies from the debris of a massive weekend mudslide here, raising the death toll to 44, authorities said.
