Death tolls climb from Mexican police ambush, prison uprising
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The toll climbed to more than 50 people killed in Monday’s ambush on a Mexican federal police convoy and an unrelated prison uprising, authorities said Tuesday.
An Argentinean court has charged and ordered the arrest of a man who allegedly fathered ten children with his daughter, a local government agency reported Saturday.
A group of gunmen killed a well-known Mexican singer when he arrived at a toll booth in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, state media said.
Environmentalists and indigenous-rights supporters gathered in the Brazilian capital Tuesday to protest a hydroelectric dam project that they say would be devastating to the Amazon region.
Four people died, two are missing and 110 were injured when a tornado struck Thursday afternoon in northern Argentina, near the border with Paraguay, the state-run Telam news agency reported Friday.
What was Hurricane Karl weakened Friday to a tropical storm after making landfall, but the heavy rain it spawned could still cause mudslides and flash floods in the Mexican interior, forecasters said.
Three Salvadoran gang members were arrested Monday in connection with the killing of French filmmaker Christian Poveda last June, police said.
Authorities found a headless body in Guatemala on Friday, one day after the discovery of four severed heads and two decapitated corpses in different parts of the nation’s capital, officials said.
As Mexico approaches its bicentennial, Mexico’s president says his country is fighting significant security problems — many of which are fueled by U.S. policies.
A quickly intensifying Hurricane Igor is poised on Monday to become a Category 5 storm — the most-powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale that measures tropical weather.
Colombia laid out its case against Venezuela Thursday in front of the Organization of American States.
In an effort to ramp up pressure for Peru to crack down on illegal loggers in its region of the Amazon, an indigenous rights organization has released what it says are photos of an uncontacted tribe in Brazil that is threatened by the logging across the border.
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.
Six people, including one minor, were killed Sunday in a natural gas explosion at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, authorities and state media reported.
With potential for unrest looming, Haitians waited anxiously Tuesday to hear results of the presidential vote held more than a week ago.
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