
Secret Service chief to step down this month
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan announced his retirement Friday, bringing to a close a turbulent period for the law enforcement agency that ...

Colombia judge nixes ban on film on hostage's baby
A judge has spurned a prominent Colombian's attempt to prevent the release of a feature film about the odyssey of the child born to her while she was ...

Surviving band member leads police to bodies
The Colombian-style music group was playing at a ranch in northern Mexico when at least 10 gunmen entered the warehouse where the private party was ...

Colombian superstar Juanes writes 1st book
Juanes (WAH'-nehs) has more to say than will fit in a hit song. The Colombian singer announced Thursday that his first memoir will be released April ...
Canadian, Peruvian gold prospectors kidnapped
Leftist rebels kidnapped five gold prospectors doing exploratory drilling for a Canadian company before dawn Friday in a northern province of ...

Shakira hosts shower for underprivileged kids
What does the baby of the world's most famous Latin American singer need? Nothing, apparently. Expectant parents Shakira and soccer star Gerard Pique ...
Romania wants 2 drug trafficker suspects arrested
Romanian prosecutors want to arrest two Bulgarians suspected of running one of Europe's largest cocaine trafficking rings from Colombia to Europe.
Preliminary probe for Colombia's Uribe
Colombia's chief prosecutor's office has opened a preliminary criminal investigation into former President Alvaro Uribe over allegations he sponsored ...

Colombia firm makes armored clothes for kids
A Colombian firm that makes bulletproof vests is now creating armored clothing for children. Factory owner Miguel Caballero said he never thought ...
President's brother speaks out on Colombia talks
A brother of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has revealed that the country's largest guerrilla group had initially proposed to hold peace talks ...
3-day trip becomes 3-week ordeal for 2 Jamaicans
It was supposed to be a three-day fishing trip at most. It turned into a three-week ordeal, drifting under an intense sun for hundreds of miles in the ...

Venezuela court could decide on Chavez swearing-in
The president of Venezuela's Supreme Court said Thursday that it could decide whether it's constitutional to postpone the date of ailing President ...

Chavez has respiratory infection, now 'controlled'
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a respiratory infection after undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba and must have "complete rest" for the next few ...

Colombia, rebels hope rising trust can yield peace
While the angry rhetoric and bombs continue to fly back home, Colombian rebels and government negotiators in peace talks in the Cuban capital describe ...

Some Venezuelans see 'Chavismo' struggles brewing
Hugo Chavez's most influential allies are projecting an image of unity while the president recovers from cancer surgery in Cuba, standing side-by-side ...

Chavez faces new cancer battle, surgery in Cuba
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was heading back to Cuba on Sunday for a third cancer surgery after naming his vice president as his choice to lead ...
Colombia bombs rebel camps, 6 bodies recovered
Colombia's military said Monday that it killed at least 20 Revolutionary Armed Forces insurgents in a weekend air raid on a cluster of guerrilla camps ...

4 Chinese oil workers freed by Colombian rebels
Four Chinese oil workers have been freed in the same southern jungles where the country's largest rebel group kidnapped them 17 months ago, police ...