Latin America News Headlines

South American independence hero Simon Bolivar once dreamed of unifying several nations as a counterweight to their powerful hemispheric neighbor, the United States.

A Haitian mayor says a dump truck has slammed into a bus in a western coastal town, killing at least five people.

Police in Puerto Rico say a man has shot and killed at least one person and injured another inside an unemployment office.

Mexican army troops dismantled a telecommunications system set up by organized crime in four northern states, authorities said Thursday.

Brazilian biologists have found an extremely rare example of an albino dolphin among an endangered species that lives off the southern coast of South America.

Guyana's ruling party will head a minority government that will not control the South American country's parliament, election officials announced Thursday after three days of counting paper ballots.

A 75-year-old woman in the U.S. Virgin Islands who has been accused of being a getaway driver for the theft of scrap metal is in trouble again.

Guyana's ruling party will head a minority government that will not control the South American country's parliament, election officials announced Thursday.

Brazilian top model Gisele Bundchen still walks the world's most exclusive catwalks, but she's also showing off her design skills again with a new collection for the Dutch mass retailer C&A.;

Officials from the Uruguayan president's office say the latest set of remains uncovered at a military installation are those of a teacher who disappeared in 1977.

The man expected to be the next president of Guyana says he is likely to run a minority government that will not control parliament in the sharply divided South American country.

The end is not near.

The end is not near.

A U.S. businessman who spent nearly four months in an Aruban jail before a judge ordered his release scored another legal victory Wednesday when an appeals court rejected a prosecution appeal to put him back in pretrial detention.

A judge in Colombia has dissolved the marriage of Ingrid Betancourt, the former presidential candidate rescued in 2008 from leftist rebels who held her hostage for more than six years.

The Mexican goverment is chiding local authorities in a northern state for discussing the criminal record of an anti-crime activist who was shot to death.

The leader of St. Lucia's former main opposition party has been sworn as the Caribbean island's new prime minister.

A prominent U.S. religious leader has visited an American man jailed in Havana for bringing restricted communications equipment to Cuba, and says he is in good spirits.

A former guerrilla who battled two of Paraguay's military-led governments has died at age 93.

A Maryland businessman who was jailed in Aruba on suspicion of involvement in the presumed death of his traveling companion intends to head home Wednesday, one of his defense lawyers said.

A U.S. man is out of jail for the first time in nearly four months, but prosecutors hope to persuade an Aruba appeals court to put him back behind bars as early as Wednesday as a suspect in the disappearance of his female traveling companion.

A U.S. businessman was released from jail in Aruba on Tuesday and free to leave the island, although prosecutors continue to try to put him back behind bars as a suspect in the disappearance of his traveling companion.

U.S. businessman Gary Giordano has been released from jail in Aruba after nearly four months of detention as a suspect in the disappearance of his traveling companion, Robyn Gardner.