Forget Disneyland! Costa Rica is the happiest place in the world, according to an independent research group in Britain with the goal of building a new economy, "centered on people and the environment."
The mayor of Nicaragua's capital, three-time world boxing champion Alexis Arguello, was found dead in his home early Wednesday morning from a gunshot wound to his chest. He was 57.
Peru's Congress voted overwhelmingly to revoke two decrees that indigenous groups had said would result in the exploitation of their native lands for oil drilling, mining and logging.
Venezuela has promised to give Nicaragua $50 million to replace money that the United States said this week it would withhold from the Central American country, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said Saturday.
In the rain forests of Central America grows the nutrient-rich Maya nut. The marble-sized seed can be prepared to taste like mashed potatoes, chocolate or coffee. To those who stumble upon the nuts on the ground, they're free for the taking.
A Syrian arms dealer was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. federal prison for conspiring to sell weapons as part of a plot to kill Americans in Colombia, according to prosecutors.
I've enjoyed many European holiday traditions such as Santa Lucia Day in Scandinavia and St. Nicholas Day in the Netherlands and Belgium. But one of the most memorable wasn't European at all.
A tropical storm strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Thursday in the Caribbean Sea, the National Hurricane Center said.
A friendly judge tossed out sexual-abuse allegations against the Nicaraguan leader, but Latin America's feminists won't let the matter rest
Add another variable to the perplexing task of predicting which MLS team is best suited to running the gauntlet of playoff matches that determine the league champion: attrition from yet another competition.
Forget Disneyland! Costa Rica is the happiest place in the world, according to an independent research group in Britain with the goal of building a new economy, "centered on people and the environment."
The mayor of Nicaragua's capital, three-time world boxing champion Alexis Arguello, was found dead in his home early Wednesday morning from a gunshot wound to his chest. He was 57.
Peru's Congress voted overwhelmingly to revoke two decrees that indigenous groups had said would result in the exploitation of their native lands for oil drilling, mining and logging.
Venezuela has promised to give Nicaragua $50 million to replace money that the United States said this week it would withhold from the Central American country, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said Saturday.
In the rain forests of Central America grows the nutrient-rich Maya nut. The marble-sized seed can be prepared to taste like mashed potatoes, chocolate or coffee. To those who stumble upon the nuts on the ground, they're free for the taking.
A Syrian arms dealer was sentenced to 30 years in a U.S. federal prison for conspiring to sell weapons as part of a plot to kill Americans in Colombia, according to prosecutors.
I've enjoyed many European holiday traditions such as Santa Lucia Day in Scandinavia and St. Nicholas Day in the Netherlands and Belgium. But one of the most memorable wasn't European at all.
A tropical storm strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Thursday in the Caribbean Sea, the National Hurricane Center said.
A friendly judge tossed out sexual-abuse allegations against the Nicaraguan leader, but Latin America's feminists won't let the matter rest
Add another variable to the perplexing task of predicting which MLS team is best suited to running the gauntlet of playoff matches that determine the league champion: attrition from yet another competition.
"The thought that I can reach out and permanently improve someone's life for the better is addictive," says Dave Schweidenback.
U.S. imports of Venezuelan oil and oil products fell by 11.7 percent to a five-year low in the first four months of the year, the U.S. government said Monday
A suspected arms dealer accused of conspiring to sell weapons to Colombian guerrillas was extradited Friday from Spain to the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Five people died and more than 80 were injured when a commercial airliner overshot the runway into an adjoining street, crushing three vehicles and splitting into three sections before resting a few feet from a house, officials said.
Three names -- Dean, Felix and Noel -- were permanently retired from the list of Atlantic hurricane names after storms bearing those monikers in 2007 caused damage in the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and elsewhere, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.
The country's ex-Marxist president says that the economic basket case can become the bread basket of Latin America, precisely because its farms are so backward
Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said Thursday that the nation is breaking relations with Colombia "in solidarity with the Ecuadoran people."
Three weeks after he was released from a Nicaraguan prison where he spent more than a year of his life, 28-year-old Eric Volz says it's still hard to feel free.
Philip B. Agee, the former CIA agent who broke with the agency 40 years ago and then published a book about it, has died in Havana, Cuba's state-run newspaper Granma reported Wednesday.
An American man held in a Nicaraguan jail was released Friday and left the country, four days after a court overturned his conviction on charges of murdering his former girlfriend.
Most people have an inkling that if you drilled down to the Earth's core, it would feel pretty hot down there -- around 5,500 degrees Celsius (9,932 degrees Fahrenheit) to be precise, in fact, according to Greenpeace. (Nearer the Earth's surface, however it is a more bearable 10-16 degrees Celsius (50-60 degrees F) all year round.)
Fatal laptop issues and a business trip to Nicaragua (yes, I know there's no college football in Nicaragua) have conspired to produce an abridged Heisman Watch this week. Some of you may think it's an improvement.
Students will investigate the contributions of Hispanic Americans to U.S. culture, and what it means to be an Hispanic in America today.
Visits with Ahmadinejad and an expensive seaport project are just a few signs of a growing alliance between the Central American nation and Washington's nemesis
Rescuers searched for survivors of Hurricane Felix on Thursday as the death toll from the powerful storm rose to nearly 100, according to The Associated Press.
Hurricane Felix has killed 21 people in Nicaragua and another 200 were missing, said the U.S. military's Southern Command, citing Nicaraguan officials.
Nicaragua emergency chief Ramon Arnesto Soza said Thursday the death toll in Nicaragua from Hurricane Felix has risen to more than 40.
Hurricane Henriette threatened Mexico's mainland Wednesday, while the weakening remnants of Hurricane Felix dumped heavy rain over Central America
Felix was barely clinging to hurricane status Tuesday, but the storm still posed a "major flood threat" and could dump as much as 2 feet of rain in some areas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Hurricane Felix increased in strength in the early hours of Tuesday as it barreled toward Central America, where it is expected to come ashore along the Nicaragua-Honduras border.
Hurricane Felix has grown to a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 storm packing winds up to 165 mph (270 kph), the National Hurricane Center said late Sunday.
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1. Mexico Rapid approval of the 2007 budget, a well-targeted anti-crime initiative, and the launch of new social programs could boost Felipe Calderón's presidential credibility and support.
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On Sunday, just two days before the U.S. midterm elections, the man President Reagan called the "Little Dictator," the man involved in a civil war that left tens of thousands dead, the man who brought massive economic devastation to Nicaragua, could become that nation's leader again.
With most of the votes counted, about 80 percent of Panamanians appeared Sunday to have approved a $5 billion plan to widen the Panama Canal.
The Basque separatist group ETA has been fighting for an independent Basque state in northern Spain since 1968.
Recaptured serial rape suspect Reynaldo Elias Rapalo was ordered held without bond Tuesday at a Miami jail different from the one where he made his escape.
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Just as we're positioned as never before to secure justice in our economy, we're poised as never before to create a safer, freer, more peaceful world. Our alliances are stronger than ever. Our economy is stronger than ever. We have resumed our historic role as a leader of the free world. And all of these together are a great force for peace.
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