Central America News

During a recent heated meeting at the US Embassy in El Salvador, Ambassador Charles Glazer admitted that the US government had intervened in the 2004 Salvadoran Presidential Elections on behalf of the ...

"I can't say I approved, either of the macho posturing, or the teasing of the bull, but no one could say this wasn't authentic" Incredible lakes of mud, heated from the depths of the volcano, bubble frantically ...

Raging tropical storm "Fay" has brought floods to Haiti, killing at least 50 people in Haiti when the bus they were aboard was dragged by a river due to the strong rain the storm produced, authorities said on ...

A U.S. federal grand jury handed down a new indictment against Puerto Rico Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila Tuesday, charging him with four counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection with alleged campaign finance violations.

It accused Acevedo and others in his campaign of receiving some US$250,000 in illegal funds from a local businessman, whom Acevedo later helped as governor without disclosing the financial relationship. A senior aide and former campaign director were also charged.

Tropical Storm Fay moved towards hurricane strength Monday as it struck Cuba and barreled toward the Florida Keys after claiming more than 40 lives in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.

AP) Tropical Storm Fay is pounding Cuba with heavy rain and wind and the Florida Keys could be next.

The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy.

The body of deceased Angel Pantoja Medina stands erect and leans against a wall by his coffin during his own wake in his mother's home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Aug.

Three men accused in the killing of pets seized from a public housing project waived their right to a jury as their trial began Monday, saying heavy publicity would make it impossible to find impartial jurors.

Two babies were killed when a river surging with rain from Tropical Storm Fay toppled their overcrowded bus, a U.N. official said Monday, raising the storm's Caribbean death toll to at least 14.

Fay's projected path is now well East of the Central Panhandle but that could easily change over the next two or three days... Rely on our Hurricane Center to keep you informed.

Aug 15 - At least 21 people, including six Italian tourists, are dead following the collision of two buses in the Dominican Republic.

He was 70. Moore died at a friend's house after being released from the hospital following cancer treatment last week, music promoter Herbie Miller said.

AROUND 50 people died in Haiti yesterday when a bus tried to cross a river swollen with rain from Tropical Storm Fay and was swept away, witnesses said.

ABACO, The Bahamas: The Ritz-Carlton Club has its sights on The Bahamas, and on August 13 the industry's leading private residence club announced its expansion at The Abaco Club on Winding Bay , A Ritz-Carlton ...

Vietnamese forest owners can get money from the huge industrial bosses of the world, under a mechanism in which carbon providers pay forest owners.

The Dominican Republic. Wow, what a great place. I've only been there once, but I'm absolutely in love with that place.

The Caribbean countries of Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada will form an economic union in 2011.

What's that sound? It's the golden age of Dominican music ringing across the hemisphere.

At least 18 people, including five Italian tourists, were killed Friday when two buses and a pickup truck crashed in the Dominican Republic, officials said.