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A law allowing same-sex weddings took effect Thursday in Mexico City, one day after the second same-sex marriage was performed in Argentina.
Mexican authorities on Thursday continued to investigate the kidnappings of at least six people from a Holiday Inn in Monterrey, Mexico, Wednesday.
Lethal assaults on police and prison guards in Guatemala continued over the weekend, with an attack on a national police patrol that killed two officers and left one wounded, authorities said.
Venezuelan state television has showed the skeletal remains of one of Hugo Chavez’s heroes as the country’s president called for an investigation into his death.
Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch man once considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, is the suspect in the killing of a woman in Peru, Peruvian police officials said Wednesday.
Colombians will go to the polls on Sunday in a tight presidential race that many didn’t expect would be so close just a few months ago.
Venezuela has asked Interpol to arrest the owner of the only TV station still openly critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez, the government announced Friday.
At least 115 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
Panama and the United Arab Emirates are crucial trade hubs thanks to two of the greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century — Dubai’s Jebel Ali port and the Panama Canal.
An American who set up a school for homeless street boys in Cap-Haitien could face nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing some of the same children he sheltered, clothed and educated.
A lead investigator and another official looking into the massacre of 72 migrants whose bodies were found this week in northern Mexico are missing, President Felipe Calderon said Friday.
Two Americans charged with kidnapping in Haiti appeared before a judge Thursday, a day after the judge released eight other Americans on bail and allowed them to return home.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has asked the nation’s Senate to amend the law so that military suspects would be liable in civilian courts for cases involving forced disappearances, torture and rape.
We went to see orphanages Monday. One was called Maison des Enfants de Dieu — House of the Children of God. The house is still standing, but the children are afraid to go back in.
The front-runner in Haiti’s presidential race denounced Sunday’s national elections, calling for a complete annulment of the vote due to irregularities and ballot-box stuffing.
Mexico’s navy on Wednesday announced the arrests of 30 members of the Gulf drug cartel following several armed confrontations in the northern state of Tamaulipas.
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