Latin America & Caribbean
Argentine Congress OKs elective abortion; now goes to Senate
The lower house of Argentina\'s congress on Thursday approved a bill that would legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of ...Nicaragua violence rages as prospect of crisis talks hangs in limbo
Masaya, a city battling at the front lines of Nicaragua\'s heated anti-government protests, once again became the scene of fierce street battles ...Landslide threat forces suspension of Guatemala volcano search
The threat of fresh landslides forced emergency workers Thursday to suspend a search for victims of a major eruption of Guatemala\'s Fuego ...Search for missing after Guatemala volcano kills 25
Emergency workers will resume the search on Monday for Guatemalans missing after the eruption of the Fuego volcano, which belched out clouds ...Prison riot in Venezuela leaves 11 dead, 28 wounded
A prison riot in northern Venezuela has left at least 11 people dead and 28 others wounded, a rights group said Friday, ...Passenger plane crashes in Cuba, killing more than 100 people
More than 100 people were killed in a fiery crash of a Boeing 737 passenger plane in Cuba on Friday, with just ...Maduro seeks second term in isolated, ruined Venezuela
Shrugging aside his country\'s economic ruin and growing international isolation, Venezuela\'s socialist President Nicolas Maduro seeks a second six-year term in controversial ...Colombia, ELN rebels say peace talks will be moved to Cuba
Colombia and the ELN rebels said on Saturday they will move peace negotiations to end more than five decades of war to ...Cuba marks end of an era as Castro hands over to Diaz-Canel
Cuba marked the end of an era Thursday as Miguel Diaz-Canel was formally elected as the country\'s new president, becoming the first ...Anger mounts over Venezuela jail fire that kills 68
Authorities in Venezuela faced an onslaught of national and international outrage Thursday over a blaze in a police station\'s jail in which ...




