Jamaican authorities declared a state of emergency in Kingston after gang members supportive of an alleged drug lord wanted by the United States attacked police stations and blockaded a large swath of the city.
There were no articles on the front page of Ecuador’s El Universo newspaper Thursday in reaction to a judge’s ruling that the publication had libeled the country’s president.
The deadly cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 1,100 lives in Haiti has now spread to yet another vulnerable community: the largest prison in the country.
Two city officials in Monterrey, Mexico, were kidnapped on Sunday and Monday, respectively, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
A judge will bring at least 41 guards to trial following a mass jailbreak from a prison in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico’s Attorney General’s office posted on its website Tuesday.
At least 18 people were killed in a shootout in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, state media reported.
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.
Cuba’s sugar harvest this year is the worst it’s been since 1905, the country’s state-run daily newspaper reported.
Mexican authorities have recovered 10 bodies and expect to pull out more from a mass grave in a village outside of Acapulco, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing police.
The attorney for Gary Giordano has petitioned a court in Aruba demanding the immediate release of the detained American.
A Mexican mayor campaigning for the president’s sister in a gubernatorial race was fatally shot in the southeastern state of Michoacan, the state attorney general’s office said.
Almost 500 Sri Lankan migrants who spent three months on a cramped ship before being taken into Canadian custody appear to be in good health, officials in British Columbia said Saturday.
Brazilian firemen on Thursday said they had brought a large fire in a Sao Paulo shantytown under control after 37 trucks and 120 men were rushed to the area in the center of the city.
The head of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel has been captured, Mexican federal police announced.
A Brazilian agricultural company has been fined $2.8 million for employing 180 slave laborers, among them adolescents, the government-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported Wednesday.
More than half of the passengers survived after an airplane crashed Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, government officials said.
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