Americas Brief

Three television cameramen and a newspaper reporter were being held by kidnappers in the state of Durango.

An independent commission of inquiry into the Jan. 19 killings of a dozen or more inmates at a prison in Les Cayes, Haiti, was formally established by presidential decree this week, officials said.

If fully developed, the Keystone system would allow Canada to export as much as 1.1 million barrels of oil a day.

As President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pushes to help his chief of staff get elected, whether he can transfer his immense popularity is unclear.

Members of the arts community say more musicians, actors and writers are traveling between Cuba and the United States.

An American-owned apparel factory in the Dominican Republic has committed to pay a living wage — three times the average for the industry there.

Colton Harris-Moore, the teenager accused of being the “Barefoot Bandit,” rode stolen speedboats and airplanes all the way to the Caribbean before being caught.