Associated Press
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
The quake struck at 7:30 p.m. about 16 miles north-northwest of Talca, a city of more than 200,000 people where residents said the shaking lasted about a minute.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
Two of Mexico's three largest political parties have said they have not been able to comply with a legal requirement to reserve 40 percent of their congressional candidacies for women, electoral authorities said Saturday.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
Local officials in a Dallas suburb say they plan to continue pushing for a ban on undocumented immigrants renting property within the city limits -- a measure that has cost the city $5 million and remains unenforceable due to court challenges.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
A United Nations official is urging Haitian authorities to revive a panel to coordinate reconstruction efforts following the 2010 earthquake.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
A Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White held its customary weekly protest without incident Sunday on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the island.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
Guatemala's president proposed Saturday that the United States and other "consumer" countries pick up the tab for the cost of drug seizures.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
Gen. Luis Eduardo Martinez is Bogota’s police chief and says the blast occurred on the third floor of a residential building early Sunday in the neighborhood of Suba.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
Colombia's government is criticizing a public event that was held in Venezuela's capital honoring the late leader of Colombia's largest rebel group.
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 00:00
Colombian police described the 62-year-old as a midlevel leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and also one of the group's oldest members.
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 00:00
Colombia's Supreme Court has chosen lawyer Eduardo Montealegre has the country's new chief prosecutor.