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U.S. support for ending Cuba's nearly 50-year-old suspension from the Organization of American States has given the Obama administration greater clout in the region at little cost, according to diplomats and experts.
The Organization of American States voted by acclamation on Wednesday to revoke the 1962 measure suspending communist Cuba, overturning a landmark of the Cold War in the hemisphere.
Lightning hitting airplanes is commonplace and, though lightning has downed several commercial aircraft, it rarely leads to catastrophe thanks to modern protection systems.
A diplomatic tug-of-war over Cuba's outcast status in the Organization of American States takes center stage at the group's meeting this week in Honduras, testing U.S. efforts to engage the communist nation.
A newly finished brick wall mostly obscures from the view of leaders arriving at the Summit of the Americas a slum that embodies their biggest challenges: drug-related violence and an economic crisis that threatens to erase gains against poverty.
President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that Venezuela will vote against the declaration of the Summit of the Americas in a gesture of protest against the United States.
Add this tough chore to Barack Obama's journey to Latin America: convincing leaders from half the globe that the behemoth power to the north is a humble, eager partner.
The Japanese electronics company Hitachi Ltd. has tapped Masao Hisada to be chief executive for its North American division effective April 1, the company said Tuesday.
Defense ministers from across the Americas agreed Wednesday to create an international land-mine removal center and many called for joint military missions for disaster relief and peacekeeping worldwide.
Mexican reporter on organized crime goes missingAuthorities in the western Mexican state of Michoacan are investigating the disappearance of a journalist who wrote about organized crime.
Chavez praises Carlos the JackalHugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter" rather than a terrorist.
Argentina forces DNA tests in 'dirty war' casesValuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina is forcing extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago.
SCENARIOS: How far will Colombia-Venezuela crisis worsen?Venezuelan troops this week blew up two makeshift bridges spanning the frontier with Colombia in the latest incident to stoke tensions between two South American neighbors caught up in a long dispute.
Mexico anti-abortion fight moves to federal levelLawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion.
Woman once touted as world's oldest dies at 119A Mexican once put forward for the title of world's oldest woman has died at 119, government officials said Thursday.
Peruvian police: Gang killed people for their fatPeruvian police say a gang has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics, although experts say they doubt a major market for fat exists.
Peruvian police: Gang killed people for their fatA gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics. Medical experts expressed skepticism that a major market for fat might exist.
Murder charge filed in Puerto Rico teen slayingMurder charges were filed Wednesday in the slaying of a gay teenager whose decapitated, partially burned body was found last week, while U.S. authorities said they were still considering whether to make it a hate crime case.
Cuba dissident ends protest fast amid health rumorA hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death."
APEC retreats from C02 target, Brazil pledges cutAsia Pacific leaders backed away on Saturday from supporting a global halving of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, even as Brazil pledged deep cuts of its own over the next decade.
Drug lord makes Forbes list of 'most powerful'Mexico's most-wanted drug lord has reached a new level of fame - or infamy - by making Forbes magazine's list of the 67 "World's Most Powerful People."
Peru pulls out of summit over alleged espionagePeru will quit an APEC summit in Singapore after recalling its envoy to Chile over charges a Peruvian military officer had spied for the Chilean government, Peru's foreign minister said Saturday.
Can baseball bring U.S. and Cuba together?"Pingpong diplomacy" thawed relations between the United States and China in 1971. Can "baseball diplomacy" help do the same for the U.S. and Cuba?
Pregnant American inmate moved for treatmentPeruvian authorities have moved jailed New Yorker Lori Berenson to a capital prison to treat a chronic back ailment that could complicate her five-month-old pregnancy.
Cuban blogger's husband out to avenge her assaultThe husband of an internationally known dissident Cuban blogger is challenging the presumed state security agents who roughed up his wife to a verbal duel on a Havana street corner.
Olympics concerns after Brazil blackoutOrganizers of the 2016 Olympics are pitching host city Rio de Janeiro as a potential "power island" immune from blackouts like the one that left 60 million Brazilians in the dark.
Forbes: Mexico kingpin among world's most powerfulMexico's most-wanted drug lord escaped prison by hiding in a laundry truck nearly a decade ago, and his legend and fortune seem to grow with each passing day he eludes capture.
Aid freeze in post-coup Honduras hurting poorPoor Hondurans are going hungry and their sick children cannot obtain medicines as donors cut aid to the country following a June coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya, doctors and aid workers say.
Mexican city fires 25 percent of traffic policeMexico's third-largest city has fired almost a quarter of its traffic police for failing tests designed to detect corruption and ineptitude.
Mexican business groups call for U.N. troopsBusiness groups in a Mexican border city are calling for U.N. peacekeepers to quell the drug violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
Blackout raises fears about Brazil infrastructureGovernment leaders are defending the reliability of Brazil's power grid after a huge blackout left nearly 60 million people in the dark and raised concerns about its ability to guarantee electricity for a surging economy.
Surprising rebel attack kills 9 Colombian soldiersNine Colombian soldiers were killed when their post was attacked by Marxist FARC guerrillas in a southwestern part of the country used as a cocaine smuggling corridor by the rebels, officials said on Tuesday.
Mexico police, angry residents clash over suspectsPolice rescued four suspected kidnappers from a town hall surrounded by hundreds of angry residents who wanted to punish them themselves.
Millions in the dark after blackouts in BrazilBrazil's two largest cities have been hit by a massive blackout that has also affected other parts of Latin America's largest nation.
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