■ Mexico
Bus crash kills 11
A passenger bus flipped over in Oaxaca early on Saturday, killing 11 passengers and injuring 39, including the driver, authorities said. Regional state police commander Lazaro Rendon said the bus, with 50 people on board, was speeding when it veered out of control and rolled over near the town of Ojitlan, 350km from the state capital of Oaxaca City. The bus was traveling from Jalapa de Diaz, near the border with the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, to Mexico City. The driver was taken into custody and was being questioned, but had not been charged with a crime pending further investigation, Rendon said. The condition of the injured was not immediately clear.
■ Chile
Fidel's on the mend: son
The elder son of Cuban President Fidel Castro said on Saturday that his father was on the mend and remained in good spirits. "He is recovering, I see him recovering," Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, 54, told reporters in the Chilean city of Valdivia, 800km south of Santiago. "He is in good spirits and optimistic," Castro Diaz-Balart said. He did not elaborate. The Cuban president has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July. He temporarily ceded power to his younger brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro.
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