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The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.
Guatemalan authorities must act to stop the high numbers of women being killed in their country and ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice, Amnesty International said.
A fourth earthquake in 24 hours rattled coastal Chile early Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The top security official in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon was found shot dead and burned inside a truck, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing state officials.
There are dozens of murders recorded in Mexico each month, but it was a single one that set off a succession of skirmishes that has turned the northeastern state of Tamaulipas into a battle zone.
It’s one of the most famous tourist destinations in Mexico.
Karl strengthened early Friday and could become a major hurricane before making landfall on the Mexican coast in the afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said.
Medical workers expressed alarm Friday over the increase in hospitalizations and deaths in Haiti’s cholera outbreak as the earthquake-devastated nation’s already strained health system overflowed with the sick.
Rescuers raced against the clock Friday to free people trapped in earthquake-ravaged Haiti as aid workers tried to give out water and food to survivors.
Ariel Sigler is the latest of 21 Cuban political prisoners to fly into exile after being freed from jail in Cuba.
Disaster and emergency experts warn that earthquake-ravaged Haiti is facing fresh tragedy as time becomes ever more crucial to rescue efforts.
The mayor of a town on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, was kidnapped by gunmen overnight, Nuevo Leon state officials said at a news conference Monday.
Oh, the motorcades. Those endless traffic jams. The security barriers one must navigate just to cross the street for a cup of coffee. New Yorkers know the madness can only mean one thing: the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.
Gunmen opened fire on two U.S. immigration agents in Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring the other, officials said.
About a dozen or so of the 33 miners freed in Chile this week after spending more than two months underground returned Sunday to the mouth of the mine to offer thanks during a private Mass.
In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, George Clooney and other celebrities are signing on for a telethon to aid the devastated island nation.
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