A 90-metre cigar for Fidel Castro’s 90th birthday
Friends and allies of Fidel Castro, the founding leader of communist Cuba and its former president, are celebrating his 90th birthday. The revolutionary leader looked frail as he attended the...
View Article‘El Chapo’ could be headed back to prison he escaped from last year
Accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, who’s awaiting extradition to the United States, might be headed back to the same prison he escaped from a year ago, a judge ruled this week. After...
View ArticleCeasefire opens ‘new chapter’ for Colombia
A ceasefire to end the 52-year-old war between the Colombian state and FARC fighters has gone into effect, with a full peace agreement expected to be signed in September. The Revolutionary Armed Forces...
View ArticleRousseff: ‘I did not commit the crimes I am accused of’
Brazil’s suspended president Dilma Rousseff has appeared before the Senate to testify at her impeachment trial, denying allegations of breaking budget rules and saying the future of the country was at...
View ArticleMexican president fires top police chief for alleged cartel executions
Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto has fired federal police chief Enrique Galindo, following a report police killed at least 22 suspected members of a drug cartel. Nieto fired Galindo to clear the...
View ArticleOpposition floods Caracas in giant anti-Maduro protest
Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall”, thousands of opposition supporters flooded Venezuela’s capital on Thursday to press for a recall referendum this year against Socialist...
View Article‘El Chapo’ sons suspected of deadly Mexico ambush
The sons of imprisoned drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman are suspected of launching an ambush on a military convoy in northern Mexico which killed five soldiers and injured 10 others. State and...
View ArticleShock as Colombia voters reject FARC peace deal
Voters in Colombia’s referendum have narrowly rejected a peace accord between the government and the Marxist group, FARC. The outcome of Sunday’s vote endangers a deal expected to end 52 years of war...
View ArticleHaiti mourns as death toll nears 900
The full scale of the devastation in rural parts of storm-hit Haiti became clear as the death toll soared to nearly 900 three days after Hurricane Matthew levelled huge swaths of the country’s south....
View ArticleNicolas Maduro awards Vladimir Putin with Hugo Chavez peace prize
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro awarded a peace prize in honor of Hugo Chavez to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Maduro created the “Hugo Chavez Prize for Peace and Sovereignty” to recognize...
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