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Tegucigalpa - A group of armed men killed 17 people working in a shoemaking workshop Tuesday in the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, 250 kilometres from Tegucigalpa, police said.

Latin America and the Caribbean is the most unequal region in the world with ten of the fifteen countries with the highest levels of inequality in the region. This inequality is persistent, self-perpe...

Central America's three major stock markets closed mixed on Wednesday.Panama's BVPSI index closed up 0.02 percent at 255.64 points with a trade volume of 24.4 million U.S. dollars.In Costa Rica, which...

SAO PAULO, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The mobile broadband services market achieved a high growth rate during 2009, reaching a total of 15 million connections. This total represented nearly 3% of populat...

The massacre of 18 people in a shoe factory in northern Honduras was likely an attempt by the assailants to eliminate sympathizers of a rival gang even though none of the victims had criminal records,...

Several hundred people were lining up Wednesday evening to enter a multipurpose room at a Westlake middle school, where top Los Angeles police officials and consul generals from three countries were e...

Heavy seasonal rainfall has set off deadly mudslides and widespread flooding across Central America and Mexico's southeast, killing more than 50 people and displacing more than half a million.

(IDM) TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The massacre of 18 people in a shoe factory in northern Honduras was likely an attempt by the assailants to eliminate sympathizers of a rival gang even though no...

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran police said on Wednesday street gangs connected to violent Mexican drug cartels are responsible for the massacre of 17 people in a shoe shop in the industrial city of ...

More than 50 international films promise to pack more on-Island punch this weekend than Earl did. The M.V. International Film Festival begins this evening, September 9, with a rooftop reception at the...

Filed at 6:32 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drug gangs in Mexico and Central America are morphing into an insurgency like that which gripped Colombia 20 years ago, Secretary of State

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Chile's key equity index notched a fresh closing high Wednesday, outperforming its regional rivals after the country's central bank raised its outlook for gross domestic p...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drug gangs in Mexico and Central America are morphing into an insurgency like that which gripped Colombia 20 years ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday, pro...

Entering Ricardo Pau-Llosa's home in Miami, visitors feel they've stepped into an art museum. From kitchen to high-ceilinged study, nearly every inch of the place is covered with works by contemporary...

Alvaro Colom declared a "national tragedy" on Sunday after landslides killed at least 36 people and left rescuers digging in the mud for dozens still missing. Colom declared a state of emergency as fe...

TEGUCIGALPA (HONDURAS): Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire, killing at least 18 workers and wounding five, Honduran authorities said.

2.5 of every 1000 domestic abuse reports resulted in conviction. A male-dominated culture and a corrupt and inefficient justice system combine with a staggering 75 percent poverty rate to create the p...

(the "Company" or "Golden Reign") (TSX VENTURE:GRR) is pleased to report assay results from Mina Estrella, discovered during regional geological mapping of the northern block of its San Albino-Murra G...

Eighteen people have been killed and eight injured after gunmen opened fire on a shoe factory in Honduras.Fifteen died at the scene while three others died later.Police said they had no idea of motive...

Slate by Timothy Noah. It explores the growing income inequality in the United States. Really interesting stuff worth a read. One paragraph really popped out at me.