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‘Blind mules’ unknowingly ferry drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border

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Every weekday, Juan Andres drives across the U.S.-Mexico border from his home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to the University of Texas at El Paso.

Violence in the United States is not related to illegal Mexican immigrants, but violence in Mexico is connected to vast shipments of weapons from the United States, Mexico’s foreign minister told CNN Thursday.

Brazil’s official football federation, CBF, fired its national team’s coach and his technical commission just hours after the arrival of the team’s flight at the Rio de Janeiro Airport on Sunday.

Pope Benedict XVI will appoint a special envoy to run a Mexican Catholic order whose founder abused minor-age seminarians and fathered three children with two women, the Vatican said Saturday.

Mexico on Wednesday admitted that American unmanned drones operate over its territory, but denied that it constitutes a violation of its sovereignty.

The mayor and a council member were gunned down Wednesday in a city in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in the third occurrence of political assassinations in the past two weeks, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.

From his cell in the notorious Palmasola prison in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, New Yorker Jacob Ostreicher counts down the days to Rosh Hashanah.

Dead men tell no tales, but the sea does, as shown Friday when an anchor was recovered from the wreckage of pirate Blackbeard’s flagship.

The two remaining miners trapped underground in Ecuador since part of a mine collapsed last week have been found dead, the mine’s president said Wednesday.

The Chinese government could embrace Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo with pride and respect “with a little twist of the mind,” actor and activist Richard Gere told a small group of activists at a New York rally in honor of Liu, who has been imprisoned by Beijing.

A former Bolivian dictator has been arrested on a charge that he exposed himself to a group of children and has been sent to a drug rehabilitation center, the state-run news agency reported.

Back in the mid-zeroes, I remember reading a lot of stories about a buildup of trash in the Pacific Ocean so massive that it had formed a floating island of waste the size of Texas. Its colorful nickname was the Great Eastern Garbage Patch, and what was even more mind-boggling than the purported scale was that pretty much the only places you could dig up any substantial info about it were in minor oceanographic and environmental publications. You also couldn’t find a photo of it to save your life. It was like Garbage Brigadoon.

The death toll in Chile was revised downward Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of dead in the Maule region.

Ten Mexican federal police were killed and several others wounded in an ambush on a convoy Monday, the government said.

A radio station in Mexico has aired parts of a telephone conversation it alleges took place between a top drug lord and a federal congressman.


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