Mexico’s Tamaulipas state bears brunt of recent cartel violence
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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.
The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday, surpassing 600, the state-run Agencia Brasil news agency reported.
Carlos Vielmann, a former Guatemalan interior minister wanted on charges of extrajudicial killings, was arrested in Spain on Thursday for the second time in two months.
A mine explosion has killed several people and trapped others in northeastern Colombia near the border with Venezuela, local officials and the government radio service reported Wednesday.
The United Nations stabilization mission in Haiti condemned Tuesday violent anti-U.N. clashes that broke out the previous day in two northern Haitian cities, charging that the riots may be politically motivated.
Law enforcement agents in Brazil’s northeastern town of Pinheiros trekked and canoed for nearly two hours through rugged terrain to arrest a 54-year-old man accused of fathering eight children with his two eldest daughters, a top regional investigator said.
One of a small number of women who have filled a void by becoming police chiefs in violence-torn Mexico was gunned down Monday, authorities said.
The 33 men trapped deep in a mine in Chile since August 5 have begun to assume different roles to help them survive what could be a months-long effort to bring them to the surface from 2,300 feet below ground, rescue officials said Thursday.
Already devastated this year by a killer earthquake and a deadly cholera outbreak, Haiti braced Friday for Hurricane Tomas, which could dump 15 inches of rain on the nation and trigger deadly flash floods and mudslides.
Polar bears clinging to melting ice sheets have become one of the most frequently used images to portray the perils of climate change.
He’s the face and voice of Mexico’s strategy against drug trafficking and organized crime. In his capacity as national security spokesman, Alejandro Poire has the unenviable task of telling Mexicans — and the world — about his government’s fight against organized crime, which have been widely criticized. CNN’s Rafael Romo asked Poire 10 questions about the status of Mexico’s war on drugs.
Tropical Storm Karl moved inland over the southeast coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center said.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has deployed troops to areas near the Colombian border and says he is reviewing plans for a potential war as tension between the two nations rises.
You hear it all the time in Port-au-Prince: “That’s Haiti,” people tell you when things move slowly, when the electricity goes off or traffic mysteriously comes to a halt. Some say it was like that even before a devastating earthquake reduced most homes to a few hours of power from a generator and made some streets impossible to pass.
A tourist bus collided with a truck carrying a heavy load of wood in southern Brazil Saturday, killing 26 people and injuring 21 others, Santa Catarina state officials said.
Jubilation may have met the first man pulled from the collapse Chilean mine shaft, but it was the second man rescued whose image was splashed across news websites.
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