Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has ordered a 60% increase in the country's minimum wage, effective from Monday.
Including food subsidies, the worst-paid workers will now take home about 200,000 bolivars a month - less than $50 (£38) at the black market rate.
The pay rise is the third this year from Mr Maduro, and aims to benefit government workers and the military.
It comes a month...
The lower house of Paraguay's Congress has voted overwhelmingly to reject a constitutional amendment that allowed the president to seek re-election.
The proposal triggered riots last month, with protesters setting fire to part of the Congress building.
President Horacio Cartes eventually said he would not seek another term even if the amendment was approved.
Memories of a military...
Two Venezuelan students and one police officer have died after being shot during what the opposition dubbed the "mother of all marches" against President Nicolas Maduro.
Clashes broke out on Wednesday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, where hundreds of thousands of people held rival protests amid rising tensions over the country's political crisis.
Security forces fired tear gas at...
At least 14 people, including three children, have been killed and 20 are still missing on Thursday after a landslide hit several neighbourhoods in Manizales, western Colombia, according to the government.
Mud and debris on Wednesday spilled through the streets of Manizales, the capital of Caldas province, after it received the equivalent of one month of rain overnight.
Roads leading to...
Venezuela's defence minister has declared the army's "unconditional loyalty" to President Nicolas Maduro, who ordered troops onto the streets ahead of a major protest by opponents trying to oust him.
Vladimir Padrino Lopez made the comment on Monday before thousands of pro-Maduro militia members at a rally outside the presidential palace, where the president thanked the army and civilian...
A veteran reporter covering the police beat has been shot dead in northeastern Mexico, his employers said, becoming the fourth journalist to be murdered in the country in six weeks.
Maximino Rodriguez Palacios "was shot and killed" outside a store in La Paz on the Baja California peninsula as he arrived in his car at around noon (17:00 GMT) on Friday with his wife, the Colectivo Pericu news...
Mexico City's Civil Protection Secretariat Fausto Lugo said at least seven people died and 10 were injured after a parking garage under construction collapsed.
Lugo said rescue workers did not find anyone else trapped after searching the site Monday in Mexico City's Álvaro Obregón municipality. Red Cross Mexico was involved in the search and rescue operation.
Mexico's Attorney General's...
Mexico's Attorney General's Office, or PGR, said it arrested a leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, identified by Mexican outlets as Iván "El Terrible" Margarito Esquivel García.
In a statement published Monday, the PGR said it captured Iván Margarito "N" in Mexico's state of Colima with the help of the Criminal Investigation Agency. The 28-year-old suspect is accused of being "one...
A regional newspaper in Mexico says the violence against journalists and the lack of punishment for those responsible is forcing it to stop printing.
In an editorial, Norte de Ciudad Juarez said Sunday's print edition would be its last.
However, the paper says it will continue to operate online.
Miroslava Breach, a journalist who worked for the paper in Chihuahua city, was shot dead last...
Rescuers say they have made little headway in finding survivors from a huge South Korean ship that sank in the South Atlantic.
Only two sailors have been rescued from the Stellar Daisy, which is believed to have broken apart on Friday.
Search efforts since then have only turned up fuel, debris, and empty lifeboats, South Korean government sources told Yonhap news agency.
The large...
