Three women, pretending to be nuns, were arrested in Colombia recently and are accused of hiding cocaine in their habits.
At least 20 people died and 33 were injured when a tanker carrying gas exploded on a highway near Mexico City Tuesday, officials said.
The office of Mexico's top prosecutor is investigating the slaying of the sons of two well-known journalists
A member of the "Cuban Five" spy group renounced his United States citizenship at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana on Monday, removing the final obstacle to his permanent return to the island.
Police in Rio de Janeiro were searching Monday for an armed man who robbed passengers and raped a woman on a moving bus.
President Barack Obama said Friday he came to Mexico to break down stereotypes between the United States and its neighbor to the south.
As President Obama prepares to head to Costa Rica to meet with Central American leaders on Friday, a top official there says he's sensed a shift in attitude.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto agreed Thursday to create a new high-level group to discuss economic and trade relations.
Ahead of their meetings in Mexico City, President Obama and Mexican President Peña Nieto hinted that they wanted to put economic ties atop their agenda.
Venezuela's opposition filed a lawsuit with the country's Supreme Court Thursday, contesting last month's presidential vote.
Bolivian President Evo Morales said he's booting the U.S. Agency for International Development from his country for allegedly conspiring against the government.
Several key topics will be on the table when U.S. President Barack Obama heads to Mexico this week.
A brawl broke out in Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday as political tensions mounted over disputed elections in the South American country.
Mexican authorities say they've detained the father-in-law of one of the country's most wanted drug lords.
A plane crash Tuesday killed six public servants working for Mexico's attorney general's office, officials said.
Bolivia's constitutional court voted unanimously to allow President Evo Morales to run for a third term in office.
Mexican authorities said Monday that they've spotted a troubling immigration trend: large numbers of migrants abandoned at sea by traffickers.
Five people were rescued Sunday, but two more remain missing, after their hot air balloon crashed off the coast of Peru.
Timothy Tracy went to Venezuela to make a documentary about the political division gripping the country.
One moment they were reeling in a fish, and the next they were shipwrecked .
Here's an in-depth look at the life of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Here's a look at the life of Carlos the Jackal, once one of the world's most wanted terrorists.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski said Thursday that he will formally contest the South American country's presidential vote.
One of two men accused in a Canadian terror plot appeared to criticize the charges against him during a hearing Wednesday in Toronto.
Guatemala's Constitutional Court began to answer some of the questions that are holding up a genocide trial.
The lawyer for one of two men accused of planning an al Qaeda-backed attack against a U.S.-to-Canada train said his client is in "shock."
Canadian authorities have arrested two men accused of plotting to attack a passenger train in an al Qaeda-supported plot, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
A magnitude-5.9 earthquake hit central Mexico near the Pacific Coast on Sunday night, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor was sworn in as Venezuela's president on Friday.
Weeks of testimony in the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt were nullified by a judge on procedural grounds, state-run media says.
Venezuela's top election official said Thursday that authorities will complete a 100% audit of votes cast in Sunday's presidential election.
A manual recount of votes isn't possible in Venezuela, the head of the country's Supreme Court said Wednesday.
A imprisoned former Mexican general has been released for lack of evidence nearly a year after his arrest on corruption charges.
The sounds of clanking pots and pans and bursting fireworks rang out in Caracas on Tuesday night as tensions mounted over Venezuela's tight election results.
As if on cue, Ermelinda Briceno entered the makeshift shrine to Hugo Chavez and shed a tear. This place of reverence to "el Comandante," the president of Venezuela for 14 years, popped up in this poor neighborhood after Chavez's death last month.
Hugo Chavez's handpicked successor won a narrow victory in Venezuela's presidential vote, but his opponent slammed the results and demanded a recount.
Juan Navarro spent nearly 37 years in a Peruvian prison before his release this week. Neither he nor officials remember if he ever was convicted of a crime.
Guantanamo Bay detainees wielding "improvised weapons" clashed Saturday with guards, an episode that occurred amid simmering tensions at the U.S. military base.
He began his career as a bus driver, and then become a member of Hugo Chavez's inner circle. On Sunday voters picked Nicolas Maduro to be Venezuela's president.
Denouncing election irregularities, Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski demanded a recount and said early Monday that he will not recognize the country's presidential results "until every vote is counted."
A packed passenger bus tumbled into a river near the Peruvian city of Trujillo early Saturday, killing at least 33 people, state media reported.
Two pilots, an American and a Canadian, were killed Saturday when the small aircraft they were flying crashed into a house in Guyana, officials said.
A funeral took place Saturday for Canadian teen Rehtaeh Parsons, who hanged herself after she was allegedly gang-raped and no charges were filed.
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano rumbled Saturday with explosions and expulsions of ash and gas.
Police in Canada "are reopening the probe involving Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, who tried to kill herself after being allegedly gang-raped and bullied.
Heroin, cocaine and amphetamines are the kind of street drugs you expect to find in the shady corners of any city, hiding away from the glare of law enforcement.
The family of a Canadian teenager who committed suicide after she was allegedly gang-raped and bullied opposes any kind of "vigilante justice."
For the first time in 14 years, Hugo Chavez isn't running for president in Venezuela.
Uruguayan senators voted 28-3 in favor of a same-sex marriage measure on Tuesday.
For the second time in six months, Henrique Capriles Radonski will be in an electoral fight for the presidency of Venezuela.
Less than six weeks after President Hugo Chavez's death, Venezuelans will head to the polls Sunday to pick a new leader.
Gunmen in Mexico fired on police and civilians Wednesday. At least 13 people died.
The soldiers killed Jacinto Lopez's teenage daughter Magdalena by repeatedly stabbing her in the neck.
Pablo Neruda wooed readers with his romantic poetry, but the latest lines in his story could be ripped from a murder mystery.
A 51-year-old grandmother from Toronto dances with joy after winning $40 million in the lottery.
Police in Brazil say they have arrested a fourth person in connection with the March 30 rape of an American woman on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro.
Mexican authorities say they've foiled a plot to assassinate two lawmakers.
Argentina's president declared three days of national mourning after heavy rains claimed dozens of lives.
Prosecutors this week indicted four people connected to a deadly blaze at a Brazilian nightclub that left hundreds dead.
Uruguayan senators voted 28-3 in favor of a same-sex marriage measure on Tuesday.
Is paying a fine to get out of military service fair? A debate is raging over new draft rules in Peru.
A dog named Rocky is being hailed for pulling a 9-year-old girl from an icy river on Easter Sunday. His owner, Adam Shaw, 27, is getting similar praise.
A female foreign tourist was kidnapped, raped and robbed on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro, police said.
A female foreign tourist was kidnapped, raped and robbed on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro, police said.
A Brazilian doctor appeared in court for allegedly killing seven patients to free up hospital beds in the southeast city of Curitiba.
Violence surges in Mexico as the government pushes a new drug war strategy focused on social and economic issues.
San Pedro Sula, in northwest Honduras, tops a list of the world's 50 most violent cities.
U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to Mexico and Costa Rica in May, officials said Wednesday.
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico's Pacific coast in the southern state of Oaxaca Tuesday morning, near the city of Santiago Pinotepa Nacional.
A 38-year-old skier died after being caught in an avalanche in Canada's Glacier National Park, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
Falkland Islands lawmakers say they won't back down in the face of Argentina's efforts to claim the South Atlantic territory.
After risque images surface, a Mexican model's political candidacy sparks controversy. She denies accusations that she was an escort, but loses a party primary.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested 35 people in a drug bust at the country's busiest airport.
About 100 people suffered minor to moderate injuries in a multi-vehicle crash Thursday south of Edmonton, Canada.
An activist in Argentina says Pope Francis supported same-sex civil unions when the pope was an archbishop
A photo of a listening device in a room where attorneys met with terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay caused a stir this month, but a senior military official says it is a relic from the days when interrogations occurred in the facility.
Venezuela is cutting off contact with a top U.S. diplomat, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday.
Venezuela's interim leader has upped the ante in his accusations about U.S. plots to destabilize his country, calling on President Barack Obama to investigate.
Canadian police have arrested the fourth and final suspect suspected in a dramatic, airborne prison escape.
Maria Elena Bergoglio was in her home west of Buenos Aires last week when she heard the shocking news: Jorge Mario Bergoglio -- her brother -- was the new pope.
The spectacular, airborne escape of two Canadian inmates Sunday stunned witnesses and showcased the illicit ingenuity behind one of the more creative styles of prison breaks.
Canadian police arrested three people Sunday in connection with a daring helicopter escape from a Quebec prison.
Report: 2 more died of injuries Saturday suffered when a truck carrying fireworks to a religious procession exploded in Mexico, raising the death toll to 16.
Pope Francis is being painted as a humble and simple man, but his past is tinged with controversy surrounding topics like gay marriage and political atrocities.
A truck carrying fireworks to a religious procession exploded Friday in central Mexico, killing at least nine people and injuring 40 others, authorities said.
Venezeula has decided not to embalm the body of its late president, Hugo Chavez, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said on Friday in a Twitter message.
Catholic faithful from Latin America cheered the historic election of the first pope from the region Wednesday.
The plan to embalm the body of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may have hit a snag.
A month after a fire crippled a Carnival ship in the Gulf of Mexico, another one of the cruise line's vessels may be experiencing its own problems.
With its approximately 480 million adherents, Latin America is home to an overwhelming portion of the world's Catholics.
Venezuela's interim leader says plans are in the works for a commission of "the world's best scientists" to investigate whether Hugo Chavez was poisoned.
Haunting underwater photo gallery, the only one of its kind in the world, breathes new life to sunken World War Two ship.
An overwhelming vote by residents of the Falkland Islands to remain under British rule didn't quell claims from Argentina on Tuesday.
Hugo Chavez's voice boomed through speakers at a Venezuelan campaign rally Monday, minutes after the country's interim leader filed papers to run for president.
Residents of the Falkland Islands voted overwhelmingly to remain a British Overseas Territory, an official said late Monday.
Here is a look at the life of Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela from 1998 to 2013.
Hugo Chavez's 14 years as president of Venezuela were so personality-driven that the movement behind him became known as "Chavismo."
People living in the Falkland Islands are voting in a referendum on their political status, amid tensions between Argentina and Britain over sovereignty.
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