July 30, 2017 Venezuela votes on constituent assembly The run-up to vote has been marked by months of clashes between protesters and the government.
July 14, 2017 Video shows doomed bride inside helicopter as it crashed taking her to wedding The video shows the inside of a helicopter that crashed outside Sao Paulo in Brazil while taking a bride-to-be to her wedding.
July 12, 2017 Powerful earthquake reported in Costa Rica A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday, collapsing some houses, blocking highways and causing panic and at least one death from a heart attack.
July 6, 2017 Body found in burned-out car may be Greek ambassador who vanished in Rio The discovery of a body in a burned-out car in Rio de Janeiro has sparked fears that it might be that of the Greek ambassador to Brazil, it has been reported.
July 6, 2017 US path on legal marijuana forces rethink in Mexico As legal marijuana use spreads rapidly across the U.S., Mexican legislators are taking small steps to decriminalize pot in a country where the war on drugs has killed more than 100,000 people over the past decade.
July 6, 2017 Pilot carrying Brazilian soccer team told Colombia controllers 'no fuel' before crash The pilot of the chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team told air traffic controllers he had run out of fuel before crashing into the Andes, according to a leaked recording of the final minutes of the doomed flight.
July 6, 2017 US envoy: South Sudan gov't prepares attack in border state A top U.S. diplomat says the United States has "credible information" that South Sudan's government is targeting civilians in Central Equatoria state and preparing for "large-scale" attacks within days and weeks.
July 6, 2017 A look at the BAE 146, the plane that crashed carrying Brazlian soccer team The plane type that crashed near Medellin, Colombia, is a short-haul aircraft that has been used to land in hard-to-access airports and is increasingly used in firefighting duties.
July 6, 2017 Late-season storm Otto becomes hurricane; 3 dead in Panama Late-season storm Otto strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday as civil defense officials reported three deaths in Panama amid heavy rain and Costa Rica ordered the evacuation of 4,000 people from its Caribbean coast.
July 6, 2017 After lengthy drift, Haiti votes for new leader Haiti's repeatedly derailed presidential election finally got underway on Sunday more than a year after an initial annulled vote as the nation tried to get its shaky democracy on a sturdier track.
