Latin America & Caribbean
Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez dies at 87
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who was praised as the most popular Spanish-language writer since Cervantes, died Thursday in Mexico City ...Powerful earthquake rattles Mexico, shakes buildings
A powerful, magnitude-7.5 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey said it was centred northwest of the ...Chile declares disaster as fire storms historic port city
Four people have died in a fire raging in Chile, whose President Michelle Bachelet has declared a disaster area as the conflagration ...Strong earthquake rocks Nicaragua
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Nicaragua on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.Volcano erupts in Ecuador
The Tungurahua volcano just outside of the Ecuadorian capital Quito has erupted, sending a plume of ash up to 10 kilometers into ...Strong 7.8-magnitude aftershock strikes near northern Chile day after powerful earthquake
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck in northern Chile Wednesday, U.S. seismologists reported, just a day after another powerful tremor off the South ...Powerful earthquake strikes off Chile, triggers tsunami
A magnitude-8.2 earthquake struck off Chile\'s northern coast on Tuesday night, causing landslides and setting off a small tsunami that forced an ...Brazil forces occupy favela ahead of World Cup
More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro\'s international airport before ...Cuba approves law aimed at attracting foreign investment
Cuban parliament on Saturday approved a new foreign investment law aimed at attracting badly needed capital through tax cuts, a measure officials ...Magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits northern Chile
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the northern coast of Chile on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate ...




