Security forces in Jamaica plan to renew a push Monday to arrest an accused drug lord at the center of violence that has now killed 76 people, the country’s police commissioner said.
The bodies of at least 20 people were found in various sectors of the municipality of Ciudad Madero, Mexico, south of Tamaulipas, state news agency Notimex reported Friday.
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.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he might be willing to return his decree powers early, lashing out at critics who contend the move was just a blatant grab for more power.
More than 1,200 new species of plants and animals have been discovered in the Amazon rainforest over the past decade according to a new report.
Human rights activists decried Tuesday a Haitian judge’s decision not to try former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier for human rights violations.
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Friday night 41 km (26 miles) north-northwest of San Jose, Costa Rica, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Mexico’s leading opposition party captured most of the 12 governorships at stake in Sunday’s elections, but that doesn’t mean the party is assured of victory in the 2012 presidential election, analysts said Tuesday.
Following the deaths of five protesters in clashes with police Friday, the Peruvian government agreed to put an end to a private mining project in the southern department of Puno.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is scheduled to make his third visit in a little over a month Tuesday to the troubled border city of Juarez, where three people associated with the U.S. Consulate were killed over the weekend.
A Cuban dissident whose release from prison had been delayed because of his refusal to leave the country has been freed, his wife told CNN.
The headless bodies of 15 people were found dumped near a shopping center in the tourist city of Acapulco, Mexico, the Guerrero State Public Security office said in a statement Saturday.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas was awarded the European Parliament’s 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Thursday.
Mexican federal police have arrested a man who authorities say could have been involved in the March shooting deaths of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the country’s public safety ministry said.
Mexican troops have killed 11 suspected members of the Zetas drug cartel in a shootout near the Texas border, state media reported.
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