Latin America & Caribbean
Peru bars second-place presidential candidate
The second-place candidate in Peru\'s presidential election was disqualified Wednesday over procedural irregularities, upending the campaign and giving controversial frontrunner Keiko Fujimori ...Colombia re-authorizes FARC leader visits to rebel troops
Colombia\'s government has re-authorized visits by rebel peace negotiators from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to guerrilla encampments in the ...Facebook executive released in Brazil after data access row
A senior Facebook Inc executive was released after nearly 24 hours in a Brazilian jail due to a disputed court order demanding ...Drug cartel battle kills 52 in northeastern Mexican prison
A battle between the feared Zetas drug cartel and rivals at a prison left 52 people dead in the northeastern Mexican city ...Obama offers Colombia more than $450 million aid to help with peace process
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he will ask the U.S. Congress for more than $450 million in aid to help Colombia ...First U.S. Zika virus transmission reported, attributed to sex
The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas on Tuesday by local health officials, ...WHO declares global health emergency over Zika situation
The World Health Organization on Monday declared that a surge in serious birth defects in South America was "strongly suspected" of being ...Birth defects in Latin America spark Zika virus panic
Alarm over thousands of birth defects blamed on the mosquito-borne Zika virus spread Friday, as the United States expanded a travel warning ...Guantanamo Bay inmate refuses to leave
A Yemeni prisoner who had been cleared to leave Guantanamo Bay after nearly 14 years has opted to stay in the military ...Haiti postpones presidential election as violence erupts
A looming presidential election in Haiti that had already been postponed once and faced deep public skepticism was put on hold indefinitely ...