Latin America Digest: Today’s one-line news briefs

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.

Tijuana, Mexico — A bus carrying farm workers and their families home Saturday along a treacherously winding stretch of highway plunged off a 130-foot cliff between Tijuana and Mexicali, killing 14 people.

Angra dos Reis, Brazil — Firefighters using heavy machinery, shovels and bare hands dug for survivors but only found corpses under a mountain of red earth and crushed lodgings from a New Year’s Day mudslide — the worst of a spate of mudslides and floods that killed at least 64 people in the country’s southeast.

Caracas, Venezuela — Venezuela reported nearly 60 tons of marijuana and cocaine were confiscated in 2009, 11% more than the haul in 2008and said anti-narcotics efforts had improved since it ended cooperation with the United States several years ago.

— Times wire reports