■ MEXICO
Cuban migrants detained
The navy said it detained 34 Cuban migrants who were in a yacht off Cancun’s coast. Lieutenant Wilberth Vargas said navy personnel found 28 men, four women and two children on Friday during a routine patrol near the resort. Vargas said the migrants told authorities they left Cuba on a makeshift boat and while at sea were spotted by two men in a yacht who offered to take them to the US. Vargas did not say if the two men sailing the yacht had been arrested.
■ UNITED STATES
Regatta competitor missing
The Coast Guard was searching for one more regatta competitor in the Gulf of Mexico after a six-person boat was found capsized and five were rescued by a helicopter crew. The emergency contact person for the 11.6m Cynthia Woods called the Coast Guard after communication with the boat was lost around midnight on Friday and the boat missed an 8am radio check, authorities said. The boat was competing in the 40th annual Regata de Amigos. The race, which covers 610 nautical miles (1,130km) from Galveston to Veracruz, Mexico, started on Friday and continues into this week. The crew included four college students and two safety officers, Texas A&M at Galveston said in a news release on Saturday.
■ PERU
Fujimori recovering
Former president Alberto Fujimori is recovering after having a cancerous lesion removed from his tongue, his doctor said on Saturday. Dr Alejandro Aguinaga said a study conducted on the removed lesion showed it was cancerous, not precancerous as doctors had initially said. Fujimori is recovering well following Thursday’s surgery, Aguinaga said. The operation forced the suspension of the former president’s trial on alleged human rights abuses. The trial is scheduled to resume on Wednesday. The 69-year-old Fujimori is charged with allowing a military death squad to carry out kidnappings and murders of suspected rebel collaborators in the early 1990s.
■ CHILE
Aircraft goes missing
Authorities were searching for a small airplane carrying 10 people that went missing after taking off from an airport in the south. The Cessna 208 Caravan took off on Saturday from the Puerto Montt airport, 1,000km south of Santiago, en route to the southern town of La Junta in Aysen region, Air Force General Hugo Pena said. The plane, which was carrying nine passengers and a pilot, was to have arrived in La Junta at 3pm and was declared missing four hours later, Pena said. It took off under poor weather conditions.
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