Chavez touts tourism venture with Cuba
August 11th, 2012 - 12:50 pm ICT by IANS
Caracas, Aug 11 (IANS/EFE) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that they will develop, together with Cuba, a large hotel complex on the Caribbean coast near Caracas, a tourist area left ... Read more...
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Passenger dies mid-air during Mexico-Belgium flight
May 23rd, 2012 - 11:50 pm ICT by BNO News
SHANNON, IRELAND (BNO NEWS) -- A Jetairfly passenger plane flying from Mexico to Belgium made an emergency landing in Ireland on Wednesday morning after one of its passengers became unwell in mid-air, ... Read more...
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Nicaragua seizes over two tonnes of cocaine
March 6th, 2012 - 11:00 am ICT by IANS
Managua, March 6 (IANS/EFE) Nicaraguan naval units seized more than two tonnes of cocaine in an operation on the country's southern Caribbean coast, the military said Monday.The drugs were confiscated ... Read more...
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Cocaine found on submarine in Honduran waters
July 30th, 2011 - 11:25 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, July 30 (IANS/EFE) Honduran authorities and the US Coast Guard found 2.5 tonnes of cocaine aboard a small submarine that was scuttled by its crew off the Central American ... Read more...
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Pilots killed as two crop-dusters collide in Costa Rica
June 22nd, 2011 - 12:04 pm ICT by IANS
San Jose, June 22 (IANS/EFE) Two pilots died Tuesday when their crop-dusting aircraft collided over a town on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, authorities said.Fernando Salazar Aguilar, 43, and Ricardo Joaquin ... Read more...
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2,900 kg of cocaine seized in Panama
January 25th, 2011 - 11:41 am ICT by IANS
Panama City, Jan 25 (IANS/EFE) Panamanian police and military units confiscated over 2,900 kg of cocaine in two separate operations over the weekend, authorities said here Monday.More than 100 bales containing 2,625 ... Read more...
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Reporter murdered in Honduras
December 29th, 2010 - 11:25 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Dec 29 (IANS/EFE) Radio reporter Henry Suazo was gunned down Tuesday in La Masica, a town on Honduras' Caribbean coast, his employer said.Suazo was shot dead as he was leaving his ... Read more...
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Mexican cop kills three fellow officers, then self
December 15th, 2010 - 12:02 pm ICT by IANS
Cancun (Mexico), Dec 15 (IANS/EFE) An on-duty police officer killed three fellow officers and then himself in downtown Cancun, a resort city on Mexico's Caribbean coast, an official said.Reports came in just ... Read more...
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Explosion In Mexico’s Grand Riviera Princess Hotel Claims Seven Lives, Injuries Many
November 15th, 2010 - 6:59 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Cancun, Nov 15, (THAINDIAN NEWS) A lavish resort in Playa del Carmen on the Caribbean coast of Mexico was witness to a major explosion on Sunday which resulted in the ... Read more...
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Scientists discover two dolphin species using ‘common language’
October 1st, 2010 - 1:07 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 01 (ANI): A new research has revealed that when two dolphin species come together, they attempt to find a common language.Bottlenose and Guyana dolphins, two distantly related species, often come ... Read more...
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Four tonnes of cocaine seized in Panama
September 26th, 2010 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANS
Panama City, Sep 26 (IANS/EFE) Panamanian authorities seized about four tonnes of cocaine at a hideout along the Caribbean coast, 24 hours after confiscating three tonnes of the drug, an official spokesperson ... Read more...
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Earth’s highest coastal mountain has moved 2,200 km in 170m years
September 21st, 2010 - 2:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 21 (ANI): The highest coastal mountain on Earth, Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, has been on the move for a long, long time as indicated by a new study.The ... Read more...
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10,000-year-old skeleton found in Mexican cave
September 15th, 2010 - 5:51 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 15 (ANI): A nearly 10,000-year-old skeleton has been discovered from an undersea cave along Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.Dating to a time when the now lush region was a near desert, ... Read more...
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1.74 bn tonnes of coal potential in Colombia: Brazilian firm
March 17th, 2010 - 11:15 am ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, March 17 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian miner MPX Energia SA, controlled by billionaire Eike Batista, has announced that it will start production in 2012 at four Colombian areas estimated to hold ... Read more...
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Gang that cloned credit cards busted in Mexico
February 11th, 2010 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
Cancun (Mexico), Feb 11 (IANS/EFE) Four Venezuelans who allegedly cloned credit cards in the Riviera Maya, a resort area on Mexico's Caribbean coast, have been arrested, police said.
The suspects were stopped for ... Read more...
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Three Cubans escape from migrant detention camp in Mexico
December 28th, 2009 - 11:55 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City, Dec 28 (IANS/EFE) Three Cuban nationals escaped from a National Migration Institute, or INM, facility in central Mexico, officials said.
Yoel Francisco Escalante Machado, Roxana Alfonso Roche and Jose Miguel Falla ... Read more...
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Over 100 dead in El Salvador flooding (Lead)
November 9th, 2009 - 11:36 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City/San Salvador, Nov 9 (DPA) More than 100 people were killed as heavy rains set off mudslides and caused flooding in El Salvador, rescue workers said.
The rainfall, which came amid a ... Read more...
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More than 90 dead in floods in El Salvador
November 9th, 2009 - 3:31 am ICT by IANS
Mexico City/San Salvador, Nov 9 (DPA) At least 90 people were killed as heavy rains prompted mudslides and flooding rivers in El Salvador, rescue workers said Sunday.
The rainfall, which was prompted by ... Read more...
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Hurricane Ida comes to Mexico, alerts issued
November 9th, 2009 - 1:44 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Cancun, Nov 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Officials have issued a hurricane watch for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi. Whereas Hurricane Ida swept the resort city of Cancun on Sunday, with heavy-duty rains and ... Read more...
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New gas find another reason to boost defence: Chavez
September 15th, 2009 - 12:28 pm ICT by IANS
Caracas, Sep 15 (EFE) President Hugo Chavez said a recent huge natural gas find off Venezuela's Caribbean coast underscores the need to bolster the Andean nation's defences against US "imperialism".
Spain's Repsol ... Read more...
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Powerful earthquake kills four in Honduras
May 29th, 2009 - 3:01 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa (Honduras), May 29 (EFE) At least four people were killed Thursday in a powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale in northwest Honduras.
Buildings and homes of people were damaged at ... Read more...
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Human skeleton inside underwater Mexican cave may be oldest ever found in Americas
September 4th, 2008 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 4 (ANI): Archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas, deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico.
Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve ... Read more...
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Cuban audiences lap up ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’
May 16th, 2008 - 8:07 pm ICT by admin
Prensa Latina
Havana, May 16 (Prensa Latina) The film version of the Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's celebrated novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" has attracted large audiences in the Cuban ... Read more...
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Guatemalan Farmers release 29 abducted policemen
February 24th, 2008 - 1:13 am ICT by admin
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DPA
Guatemala City, Feb 23 (DPA) Hundreds of Guatemalan farmers released Saturday 29 police officers, whom they had taken hostage, after their main demand to release one of their leaders was rejected. The ... Read more...
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