In this corner of Mexico, people don’t mention the devil by name. So if you hear the phrases “Triple X” (el Triple Equis) or “The Letter”, (La Letra) you know people are obliquely referring to the warring factions in one of Mexico’s most brutal drug war battlegrounds.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez appeared on state television with a shaved head Monday, telling viewers it was a sign that his cancer treatment was working.
Mexican authorities on Monday were still investigating who was responsible for a car bomb found in Ciudad Juarez and later disarmed with a controlled explosion by federal police.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
It’s the type of plot that defense hawks in the United States warn about: a potential cyberattack against the U.S. government orchestrated by none other than Venezuela, Iran and Cuba, with the help of a group of Mexican leftists.
The former governor of Colima state in southwest Mexico was killed Sunday by unidentified gunmen, state media reported.
Ophelia strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane Friday, boasting winds of 115 mph as it barreled north-northwest across the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.
Rescue crews in central Mexico Tuesday dug furiously through debris in search for survivors of a landslide that killed five people, a Civil Guard spokesman told CNN.
Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is asking for about $7 million from the country’s government for the years she spent as a hostage of leftist rebels.
A Guatemalan judge has ordered an American couple to give their adopted daughter back to her birth mother.
An explosion Thursday at a Mexican electrical substation injured 12 people, most of them firefighters or other rescue personnel, the state-run news agency reported.
Child slavery has escalated six months after a devastating earthquake demolished the Haitian capital and left a generation of orphans, according to an advocate who works in the Caribbean nation.
The Mexican government is planning to make BP and the United States pay for damages and for costs associated with the company’s ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the state news agency Notimex reported Monday.
Clad in a gold sequined bikini and topped with a feathered headdress, a curvy cabaret dancer strutted onstage.
Throngs of revelers gathered around Times Square in New York City early Sunday to ring in the New Year amid cheers, glittering confetti and fireworks in one of many festivities worldwide.
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