Brazil鈥檚 former president Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested and taken to prison Friday to begin serving a nearly nine-year sentence for corruption and money laundering, the latest former leader to face jail time.
Cuba suffered a general blackout on Friday caused by a crash of its national electricity grid, officials said, the fourth major power outage on the cash-strapped communist island in five months.
Colombian guerrillas took 29 soldiers and police hostage during a gun battle in a key cocaine-growing region, the government said Friday, a fresh blow to the country鈥檚 fragile peace process.
At least ten people were killed and more than a thousand evacuated in the Argentine port city of Bahia Blanca on Friday as torrential rains flooded homes and hospitals, destroyed roads and forced officials to cut power.
Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought on Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least 22 people dead, officials said.
Venezuela鈥檚 opposition leader said on Monday that a senior member of her movement, arrested in the aftermath of president Nicolas Maduro鈥檚 disputed reelection last year, has died in prison 鈥� the fourth since November.
Twelve university students died and 21 were injured in a collision between a bus and a truck in Brazil鈥檚 state of Sao Paulo, officials said Friday....
Colombia has offered to pay for the 鈥榙ignified鈥� deportation of its citizens from the United States, the foreign ministry said Friday, a week after a public spat between presidents Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump over the removal of migrants.
Colombia on Monday sent two military aircraft to repatriate migrants from the United States after being forced to back down in a blazing row over deportations with president Donald Trump.
Venezuela鈥檚 president Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday for a third six-year term, shunned internationally over claims of election fraud and repression but bolstered by a loyal military.
Venezuelan opposition politician Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who fled the country after a tumultuous election and subsequent police crackdown, said Saturday he has plans to speak with US president Joe Biden.
