Mexican authorities have arrested seven more people in connection with the killings of 72 migrants in northeastern Mexico, said Alejandro Poire, the president’s spokesman for security issues.
Images appearing to show former Cuban President Fidel Castro surfaced Saturday on a pro-government blog, which claims the photos were taken Wednesday.
Authorities found 26 bodies Thursday inside three abandoned vehicles in Guadalajara, Mexico, an official said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed on Monday to win the “battle” for his health and said his “return has begun.”
In Mexico, a man who tried to journey illegally into the United States to seek work vows that he will never again leave his home.
The bad news came via certified letter to Norma Jimenez, Edna Rodriguez and nearly 17,000 other Puerto Ricans this month.
Former President Bill Clinton plans to return to Haiti on Friday to meet with Haitian leaders, visit a clinic and deliver supplies, his foundation said.
Forensic experts exhumed the remains of former Chilean President Salvador Allende on Monday as part of an investigation into whether he killed himself or was assassinated during a 1973 military coup, the country’s Justice Ministry said.
Venezuela’s new prisons minister believes that 40% of the country’s inmates do not belong behind bars, the El Nacional newspaper reported.
Honduras suffered nine months of political turmoil after a military-led coup removed the elected president. Now, it joins Mexico, riddled with drug violence, as the deadliest place for journalists working in the Western hemisphere.
A female gang member was arrested in connection with the bombing of a bus in Guatemala City that left seven dead, authorities said.
Only three bodies have been found near the site where a boat carrying about 100 migrants capsized off the Dominican Republic’s coast, authorities said Monday.
Violence in and around the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez on Friday and Saturday left 23 people dead, including two police officers ambushed while on routine patrol, authorities said.
Some 2,000 police officers patrolled the streets of Rio de Janeiro Sunday after a bloody confrontation between rival drug gangs and authorities that killed 14 over the weekend, including two police officers.
Chevron filed an appeal with Ecuador’s National Court to review a ruling that it must pay billions of dollars in damages for oil pollution in the Amazon rain forest.
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