Americas News
Mexico protests against students’ disappearance in Iguala
Multiple protests are being held in cities across Mexico against the disappearance of students in the southern town of Iguala on September 26. The students...
Colombian tribe members killed by lightning in Sierra Nevada mountains
Eleven people from Colombian tribe Wiwa have been killed by lightning during a religious ceremony in Sierra Nevada mountains. Leaders from the Wiwa ethnic group...
Baby Doc dead: Former Haiti President Jean-Claude Duvalier dies of heart attack at 63
Former Haiti President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has died of a heart attack in the capital Port-au-Prince at the age of 63, official sources...
Argentina in contempt of US court in bonds case
New York Judge Thomas Griesa has ruled that the Republic of Argentina is in contempt of court for refusing to obey an order to...
Cy Tokmakjian: Canadian executive sentenced to 15 years in jail in Cuba
Cy Tokmakjian, the president of a Canadian transport company, has been sentenced by a Cuban court to 15 years in jail for bribery. Cy Tokmakjian,...
Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez perfumes banned in Cuba
The Cuban government has said it will take disciplinary action against state-owned pharmaceutical company Labiofam that created perfumes named Ernesto Che Guevara and Hugo...
Dengue fever: Brazil releases mosquitoes contaminated with Wolbachia bacteria
Brazil has released thousands of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria that suppress dengue fever. Researchers hope the good mosquitoes will multiply, breed and become the...
Amazon Tall Tower Observatory under construction in Brazil
A giant observation tower is under construction in the heart of the Amazon basin to monitor climate change. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory is expected...
Hurricane Odile to hit Mexico’s Baja California
Hurricane Odile will hit the southern end of Mexico's Baja California peninsula in the coming hours, the US National Hurricane Center says. Officials described the...
Nicaragua: Meteorite hits Managua leaving crater
A small meteorite hit the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, on September 6, government officials say. Residents reported hearing a loud bang and feeling the impact, which...
Hugo Chavez’s prayer sparks controversy in Venezuela
The commemoration of late Hugo Chavez with a rewriting of the Christian Lord's Prayer is causing controversy in Venezuela. Venezuela's Roman Catholic Church is denouncing...
Mass fish death in Lake Cajititlan sparks environmental alert in Mexico
Mexican authorities have issued an environmental alert after hundreds of thousands of fish have been washed up on the shores of Lake Cajititlan in...
Brazil elections 2014: Presidential candidates in first TV debate
Brazil's presidential candidates have taken part in the first TV debate of the campaign. Incumbent President Dilma Rousseff faced her main rivals Marina Silva of...
Brazil: Four prisoners killed in Cascavel jail riot
Rioters in a Brazilian jail in the southern city of Cascavel have killed four fellow inmates and injured several others, police say. At least 700...
Peru 7-magnitude earthquake strikes near Lima
A 7-magnitude earthquake has struck near Puquio, central Peru, on August 24, the US Geological Survey has said. There were no immediate reports of damage...
Venezuela to fingerprint shoppers to combat food shortages and smuggling
A mandatory fingerprinting system will placed in Venezuela’s supermarkets to combat food shortages and smuggling, President Nicolas Maduro has announced. Nicolas Maduro said the system...
Marina Silva to run for Brazil’s presidency
Marina Silva has been formally named as the Brazilian Socialist Party’s new presidential candidate. Environmental campaigner Marina Silva, 56, replaces the late Eduardo Campos, who...
Pope Francis’ relatives killed in Argentina car crash
Three relatives of Pope Francis have been killed when their car slammed into the back of a truck on a highway in central Argentina,...
Oscar Romero: Pope Francis lifts beatification ban on Salvador’s archbishop
Pope Francis has lifted a ban the Catholic Church put on the beatification of murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero over his suspected Marxist ideas. An...
Ricardo Izurieta: Augusto Pinochet successor as Chile’s army commander dies aged 71
Ricardo Izurieta, Chile’s ex-army commander, has passed away at his home aged 71. Gen. Ricardo Izurieta succeeded Augusto Pinochet as army commander in 1998, during...
Brazil elections 2014: Marina Silva to replace late presidential candidate Eduardo Campos
Marina Silva, Brazil’s ex-environment minister, would replace former presidential candidate Eduardo Campos, who was killed in a plane crash on August 13. Marina Silva is...
Eduardo Campos plane crash: Black box did not record Brazilian presidential candidate’s flight
According to the Brazilian Air Force (FAB), the black box recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo...
Eduardo Campos dead: Brazil’s presidential candidate dies in plane crash near Santos
Brazil’s presidential candidate Eduardo Campos has died in a plane crash, party members and local officials say. The Brazilian Air Force reported the plane was...
Argentina default 2014: US mediator accused of incompetency
Argentina is blaming the US for its debt default, calling the mediator in failed talks "incompetent". Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said Argentina was considering opening...
US imposes travel restrictions on Venezuela officials
The US government is imposing travel restrictions on a number of Venezuelan officials. Officials did not specify how many people would be affected, but said...
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