The New York Times
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 00:00
Overall damage estimates ran as high as $30 billion, Ms. Bachelet said earlier in the day, with about 500,000 homes destroyed.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 00:00
Of the thousands of contemporary mid- to high-rises in Santiago and Concepcion, most were able to withstand the quake with only cosmetic damage, if any.
Monday, March 1, 2010 - 00:00
Chilean officials said Monday that the death toll had reached 711 and was likely to rise.
Monday, March 1, 2010 - 00:00
Hillary Rodham Clinton's five-nation Latin American tour, which begins Monday and is meant in part to address regional tensions, is instead likely to be overshadowed by the response to Chile's earthquake and efforts to line up support for the American cam
Friday, February 26, 2010 - 00:00
The socialist leader called the 300-page report "pure garbage" and described the commission's president, Santiago Canton, as "excrement."
Friday, February 26, 2010 - 00:00
Former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya said Thursday that new corruption charges brought against him by Honduras' newly elected government amount to political persecution.
Friday, February 26, 2010 - 00:00
No oil-drilling rigs are operating in Argentina's own expansive waters, largely because many oil companies are wary of working in Argentina these days.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 00:00
A state police official says gunmen stormed a rural town in southern Mexico and killed 13 people, including a rancher and his three sons.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 00:00
For 12 of the children, last month's airlift transported them from one uncertain predicament to another. As it turns out, those children - between 11 months and 10 years old - were not in the process of being adopted.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 00:00
Latin American and Caribbean nations backed Argentina's claim of sovereignty to the Falkland Islands on Monday in a growing dispute with Britain.