MONTEVIDEO – Ninety-eight percent of Uruguay’s electricity so far this year has come from sources of renewable energy, the president of the state-run electric company UTE said Tuesday.

SANTIAGO – A magnitude-5.1 earthquake rocked two regions in extreme northern Chile on Sunday, but no injuries or damage have been reported, officials said.

MONTEVIDEO – Uruguayan Deputy Health Minister Cristina Lustemberg reported on Wednesday in a press conference that four people have died in the South American country from the Type A H1N1 swine flu

ASUNCION – About 100 farmers with peasant organizations on Tuesday left their family farms in Paraguay’s interior to attend a fair in downtown Asuncion, where they displayed their native seeds, the

TEGUCIGALPA – Firefighters and national emergency management office personnel continue working on Wednesday to rescue three men trapped in an artisanal mine in southern Honduras, officials said Wed

GUATEMALA CITY – The El Niño weather phenomenon is causing the worst drought in 30 years in Central America’s Dry Corridor, one of the world’s most vulnerable spots for unstable weather conditions.

GUATEMALA CITY – The office of Guatemala’s Human Rights Ombudsman warned on Thursday that the country is in danger of losing $97 million in funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

QUITO – The death toll from the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit Ecuador’s north coast on April 16 has risen to 659, the National Risk Management Secretariat, or SNGR, said.

UNITED NATIONS – The magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck Ecuador’s northern Pacific coast on April 16 destroyed 280 schools, leaving 120,000 children without access to education, UNICEF said Tuesd

Brazil has confirmed 91,387 cases of Zika so far this year, including 7,584 pregnant women at risk of having babies with birth defects, according to an epidemiology bulletin released Tuesday by the

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