MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Nicaragua has released more than 8,000 convicts to parole and sent 94 foreigners to finish sentences in their home countries since 2014, easing overcrowding in prisons, the government said Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday asked Congress to set aside $1.9 billion to respond to the Zika virus abroad and to prepare for it in the United States, saying the funds are necessary to halt the spread of the disease and "protect the health and safety of Americans."
Costa Rica Health Ministry officials on Monday confirmed that two women from the community of Sámara, in Guanacaste province, are the first confirmed cases of locally acquired Zika virus.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – The Organization of American States on Monday established an ambitious new corruption-fighting commission in Honduras aimed at replicating the success of a similar, U.N.-backed body in Guatemala that brought down that country's government.
By all appearances, Nicaragua's formerly sleeping giant Momotombo ain't going back to bed just yet. The picturesque stratovolcano, located near the city of León, continued...
The wife of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán -- the Mexican drug lord who was recaptured earlier this year, months after his escape from a maximum-security prison -- says she now fears for his life.
Early returns Monday indicated Bolivian President Evo Morales was facing defeat in a referendum on seeking a fourth term in power, but he sat tight pending results from his rural strongholds.
Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday warned that Britain's departure from the European Union would threaten its economic and national security, as the pound plunged on Brexit concerns.
Does San José's "La Chola de la Avenida" fit into complex race and gender dynamics that span the globe from Beyoncé to the South African slave Sarah Baartman? Or is she in a category all her own?
