Category - South America

WestJet and WestJet Vacations have established a Family and Friends hotline for those looking for updates on guests who may have been staying at the Grand Riviera Princess. The toll-free number for Canada and the United States is 1-866-786-6311. The direct line number for Mexico is 1-215-352-3902 – collect calls are accepted.Also see Twitter and […]

(CNN) — Fourteen people were confirmed dead but others survived when an airplane carrying at least 47 passengers and crew members crashed Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, government and hospital officials said. Twenty-three people were taken to hospitals in the city of Guayana, said Bolivar state Gov. Francisco Rangel Gomez. Of those, two died, said […]

GDACS: On 8/12/2010 1:24:19 AM UTC an earthquake of magnitude 5 and depth 43.2km has struck an sparsely populated area in the Madre de Dios Province (population: 0 million) in Peru. GDACS estimates the likelihood for need of international humanitarian intervention to be low (Green alert). This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact since […]