Cuba suffers 4th nationwide blackout in 5 months
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.
Latin America
Guerrillas capture 29 Colombian soldiers, police
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.
10 dead, hundreds evacuated in Argentina floods
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.
Gang gunfights in Ecuador leaves 22 dead
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.
Venezuelan opposition says fourth party member in months has died in prison
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.
12 university students dead in Brazil bus crash
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 offers to pay for repatriations from US
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 sends plane for migrants after Trump clash
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.
Globally ostracised as Maduro takes 3rd presidential oath
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.
Exiled Venezuelan opposition leader to speak with Biden, visit US
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.
Venezuela offers $1,00,000 reward for exiled opposition candidate
Venezuelan authorities announced Thursday they are offering $1,00,000 for information leading to the capture of opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who has left exile in Spain and is on his way to Argentina.
Venezuela releases 223 more prisoners
Venezuelan authorities have set free another 223 prisoners who were arrested during post-election protests, the prosecutor鈥檚 office announced Monday, bringing the total number of protesters released to 956.
38 die in bus accident in southeastern Brazil
At least 38 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, in what president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a 鈥榯errible tragedy.鈥�
President leads Cuban rally against US trade embargo
Thousands of Cubans joined a protest Friday in front of the US embassy in Havana that was led by president Miguel Diaz-Canel and ex-leader Raul Castro against Washington鈥檚 long-standing trade blockade.
Brazil ex-defense minister arrested over coup plot
Brazilian authorities on Saturday arrested Braga Netto, a former defense minister and close ally of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, on suspicion of obstructing an investigation into an alleged coup attempt in 2022, a police source told AFP.