Caribbean

Caribbean

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  Chavez heir barely wins; opposition rejects count

  Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, won a razor-thin victory in Sunday's special presidential election but the opposition candidate ... 

• Spanish company unveils wind farm in Puerto Rico

  A Spanish company has begun operating a wind farm in eastern Puerto Rico as part of a $90 million investment. Gestamp Wind said in a statement Friday ... 

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  Barrick suffering big setbacks in Latin America

  A Chilean court's halt to construction of Barrick Gold Corp.'s $8 billion, border-straddling mine on the high spine of the Andes is only the latest ... 

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  Cuba turning over Florida couple and children

  Cuba on Tuesday said it will hand over to the United States a Florida couple who allegedly kidnapped their two young sons from the mother's parents ... 

• Puerto Rico welcomes return of hero's remains

  The 200-year-old remains of a Puerto Rican hero arrived on the island Saturday after an exhaustive quest to identify his body and bring it home. 

• Puerto Rico welcomes 200-year-old historic remains

  The 200-year-old remains of a Puerto Rican hero have arrived on the island after an exhaustive quest to identify his body and bring it home. 

• Cuba culture official demoted after NY Times op-ed

  A leading Cuban cultural official said Friday that he has been demoted nearly two weeks after he published an opinion piece in the New York Times that ... 

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  Tax haven data leak names names, raises questions

  It's a data leak involving tens of thousands of offshore bank accounts, naming dozens of prominent figures around the world. And new details are being ... 

• 3 French pilots held in Dominican drug case

  A court in the Dominican Republic has ordered three French pilots detained in a cocaine smuggling case despite claims they knew nothing of the drugs ... 

• Haiti historian who chronicled capital dies at 88

  George Corvington, a prominent Haitian historian best known for his exhaustive study of the Caribbean nation's capital of Port-au-Prince, died ... 

• UN: Haitians aren't getting enough food

  The United Nations said Tuesday that a growing number of people in Haiti are not getting enough to eat following a heavy storm season that damaged ... 

• UN says not enough people in Haiti eating enough

  The United Nations says a growing number of Haitians are not getting enough to eat. The U.N. mission in the Caribbean nation of 10 million people said ... 

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  Justice Sotomayor visits Puerto Rico on book tour

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited Puerto Rico to present her new memoir on Tuesday, drawing hundreds of fans in her parents' homeland 

• Jamaica to approve bill targeting lottery scams

  The House of Representatives in Jamaica has passed a bill this week calling for tougher prosecution of those involved in multimillion-dollar lottery ... 

• Cuba cleric: Francis criticized church at conclave

  Pope Francis issued a strong critique of the church before the College of Cardinals just hours before it selected him as the new pontiff, according ... 

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  McIlroy to return to Haiti before the Masters

  Rory McIlroy will spend part of his week before the Masters on a humanitarian mission in Haiti. McIlroy says he will meet with children and their ... 

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  Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes dies in Sweden at age 94

  Renowned Cuban pianist Bebo Valdes, a composer and bandleader who recorded with Nat "King" Cole, was musical director at Havana's legendary Tropicana ... 

• Dominican agents, troops caught in anti-drug op

  The Dominican National Drug Control agency says 35 soldiers and police officers have been arrested in a crackdown on drug smuggling to Europe. 

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  Colombia's ex-pres faces blowback over peace talks

  Alvaro Uribe did more as president than any Colombian leader to weaken the South American nation's main leftist rebel group and he has been among the ... 

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  CONCACAF financial scandal could hurt US

  With a seat on FIFA's rule-making panel up for grabs, America's quest to maintain a place at the table could be hurt in the fallout from a regional ... 

• Webb urges FIFA to give CONCACAF more influence

  The CONCACAF region that includes the United States wants a bigger say in the decision-making at the heart of FIFA. Jeffrey Webb, president of ... 

• Police: 2 suspects detained in attack on tourists

  Two suspects have been detained in a weekend shooting attack on a British couple who were wounded and robbed by gunmen as they visited Barbados on a ... 

• US says hunger strike grows to 21 at Guantanamo

  A hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison has grown and now involves at least 21 men, a U.S. military official said Monday while denying reports ... 

• $11M EU grant targets Caribbean food production

  The European Union will award a Caribbean trade bloc $11 million to help boost food production in the region and offset the cost of importing produce. 

• Stranded melon-headed whale dies on Trinidad beach

  A rarely sighted melon-headed whale has beached itself and died on the eastern coast of the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Forestry officials told ...