Is Mexico City safe from drug cartel war — or the next target?
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Bolivian leader Evo Morales says he’s worried that U.S. authorities will plant something on his presidential plane to link him with drug trafficking when he attends Wednesday’s United Nations General Assembly meeting.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a new Cabinet post focusing on the country’s youth Thursday, but he dismissed widespread speculation about reshuffling within his inner circle.
Gay rights advocates in Colombia planned to protest Friday after the nation’s highest court rejected a lawsuit that could have legalized gay marriage.
British explorer Ed Stafford finished his two-year, 4,000-mile trek along the Amazon River on Monday, completing a feat never before accomplished, his publicist said.
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Left-leaning Ollanta Humala narrowly defeated rival right-wing lawmaker Keiko Fujimori to become Peru’s 94th president Monday. He will be sworn in on July 28.
The mayor of a violent Mexican border town said authorities are winning an escalating battle with powerful drug cartels who have killed thousands in the past year.
Haitian officials have postponed a runoff election, originally scheduled for January 16, to decide the troubled nation’s next president.
A guard has been killed at a Mexican prison where authorities say the warden let out inmates nightly to commit drug-related slayings, the state-run news agency said.
Mexican authorities said Monday that they had arrested a Zetas drug cartel leader who was connected with the killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent this year.
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