A plane carrying a load of auto parts crashed Sunday as it was trying to land in northern Mexico, killing the pilot and severely injuring the co-pilot.

Officials say a U.S. cargo plane has crashed while trying to land in the northern Mexican city of Ramos Arizpe, killing the pilot and seriously injuring the co-pilot.

Freed after years as rebel-held hostages, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and four Colombian police officers sent radio messages of hope on Sunday to...

Inspectors are collecting soil, water and produce samples, reviewing export logs and combing packing plants in three major tomato-growing states in Mexico.

Colombian leader Alvaro Uribe pledged closer ties with Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez on Saturday after months of on-and-off tensions, but Ecuador’s leftist...

Argentina’s lower house of Congress on Saturday approved a package of grain-export taxes that have sparked nationwide farm protests and food shortages.

The Argentine Congress is debating on live television a proposal to increase grain-export taxes that has sparked farm strikes and food shortages across the country.

Shoppers at a tourist market in Peru’s capital could have netted greater bargains than they thought _ rare, pre-Hispanic textiles costing little more than a Machu...

Video taken during the rescue of 15 rebel hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying...

The long-awaited trial of a former South American dictator accused of a 1982 massacre began Friday with testimony from a member of the firing squad.

Video recorded during the rescue of 15 hostages shows them filing grim-faced toward the helicopter that would fly them to safety, then hugging one another and crying...

Could Ingrid Betancourt become Colombia’s next president? It was one of the first questions she was asked after being freed in a daring helicopter rescue from six...

In a July 2 story about the rescue of kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages from Colombian rebels, The Associated Press erroneously...

Hugo Chavez, once a key mediator in securing hostage releases from Colombian rebels, could do little more than phone congratulations to President Alvaro Uribe after...

Top Bolivian and U.S. officials sought to heal their nations’ strained relations Thursday in their first meeting since a raucous protest outside the American...

The plan was nothing if not audacious: An infiltrator persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombia’s...

Police say they rescued 181 dogs, cats and birds from a farm in southern Puerto Rico where they were found sick and undernourished in dirty cages.

A meal was rice and beans. Bed was the ground under a patched plastic tarp. They bathed in rivers, and when they weren’t chained by the neck to trees, they were...

A spokesman for the U.S. mission here on Thursday denied Cuba’s charge that American diplomats were instigating opposition protests linked to American...

Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt embraced her children for the first time in six years Thursday, saying the thought of them helped her stay alive until a...