A top-level investigation was under way today after a huge gas blast devastated a resort hotel on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, killing seven people, including five Canadian tourists.

Fidel Castro is “exceptionally well” and appears recovered from a health crisis that has kept him out of the public eye for more than three and a half years, Brazil’s president said, according to reports by his country’s news media.

Latin American and Caribbean nations backed Argentina’s claim of sovereignty to the Falkland Islands in a growing dispute with Britain over plans to drill for oil off the islands in the Atlantic.

Newly formed Tropical Storm Gamma threatened the coasts of Belize and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula today after its rains killed two people and forced evacuations across much of Central America.

Hurricane Wilma inched toward Florida today as winds and rain continued to whip Mexico's devastated Caribbean coast.

MTV has postponed its Latin America Music Awards ceremony in Mexico due to the approach of Hurricane Wilma.

Colombian pop star Shakira is leading the list of nominees for the fourth annual MTV Video Music Awards Latin America (VMALAs) after landing six nods yesterday.

Hurricane Emily stranded thousands of tourists along Mexico’s luxurious Mayan Riviera and left hundreds of local residents homeless yesterday, forcing many to remain in crowded, leaky shelters.

Hurricane Emily swept over the Yucatan peninsula early today, snapping whole rows of concrete power lines in half, flooding some streets with knee-deep water and shattering ground-floor windows.

Howling wind and rain from Hurricane Emily lashed beaches in the Mexican resort of Cancun today, after thousands of tourists, many of them Britons, were evacuated from their hotels to improvised shelters at schools and gymnasiums.

A newlywed died after being hit by a bolt of lightning while on her honeymoon in Mexico, it was reported today.