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A suspected leader of a Mexican drug cartel was arrested in Tijuana, Mexico, along with four other alleged cartel members, the Mexican military said.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said Tuesday it had filed two applications with a regional human rights court to move forward on two South American cases.
Mexican authorities have suspended their investigation into the disappearance of a former presidential candidate after his family asked authorities to stand back from the case, the attorney general’s office announced Saturday.
Two miners were killed and a third was injured in a dynamite explosion at a copper and gold mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert, not far from another mine where 33 miners were trapped for 69 days.
A day after being rescued following 69 days trapped in a collapsed mine in Chile, all 33 men were briefly together again in a room at the hospital where they have been undergoing tests — and in some cases treatment — since their rescue, a hospital official said.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Mexico on Tuesday for meetings with President Felipe Calderon and other top Mexican officials on narcotics trafficking and border security.
Tropical Storm Paula is expected to strengthen into a hurricane Tuesday, bringing flooding to parts of coastal Mexico and Honduras.
The signal of one of Mexico’s largest television networks faded to black for almost an hour as a symbolic protest of violence against journalists.
The first couple of weeks had to be the hardest.
The death toll from flooding in northeastern Brazil rose to 57, civil defense officials said Tuesday.
Chile’s Atacama Desert is no place to live. At night it’s a freezing moonscape and when the sun comes up it becomes as hot as a burning skillet.
Federal authorities arrested a second person in connection with last weekend’s massacre at a house party in southern Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, that killed 15 people, government officials said Saturday.
Blind violinist Romel Joseph laid in what he called his “grave” for 18 hours.
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