Cuban national television has broadcast new photos and video of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Cuban national television has broadcast new photos and video of Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
The Obama administration is continuing an investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - known as the ATF - for allegedly allowing guns to be smuggled into Mexico after they had been purchased in the United States by people who were suspected of criminal activity. The allegations have fueled anger and mistrust on both sides of the border.
A draft report commissioned by the U.S. government says far fewer people died or were left homeless following Haiti's January 2010 earthquake than had been previously reported.
At a news conference in Washington Thursday, Martelly said his focus as Haiti's new president will be to revive and modernize the country's economy, to provide free access to education and to move victims of last year's earthquake out of tents by jumpstarting reconstruction. Martelly said he also plans to strengthen Haiti's agricultural sector.
A Chilean judge has ordered the exhumation of the remains of former president Salvador Allende to try to determine whether he was killed in a 1973 American-supported coup led by General Augusto Pinochet or committed suicide as planes bombed the presidential palace.
Haitian officials say the final results of the country's recent runoff elections will be announced next Monday, instead of this coming Saturday as originally planned.
Out-going Haitian President René Préval is urging donor countries to act quicker in disbursing the billions of dollars promised to Haiti for its recovery and reconstruction from last year’s massive earthquake. With little more than a month left in office, Mr. Préval took some parting shots at the U.N. Security Council Wednesday, criticizing the 15-members for not quickly shifting the U.N. mission there from a peacekeeping one to one focused on development and peace building.
Ecuador is expelling the U.S. ambassador over a 2009 diplomatic cable divulged by WikiLeaks in which the diplomat accused the Andean nation's former police chief of corruption.
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