El Niño rains batter Latin America from Mexico to Chile

An intensifying El Niño-linked storm season this week brought flooding to Paraguay, killed two farm workers in Argentina's cattle belt and damaged coastal communities in Peru and Mexico.



Part of a luxury condominium complex on Mexico’s Pacific coast in the tourist town of San Pancho in Nayarit State collapsed on Wednesday after pounding surf ate away the sand beneath it, exposing its foundation and leaving the structure tilted dramatically toward the sea.



In Paraguay, two dozen families took refuge late on Wednesday at a church near Paraguay's border with Brazil after their homes flooded and more residents anxiously watched the swelling Parana, South America's second-largest river, as rains battered the region.