Police: Human smugglers kidnap 16 migrants in Mexico
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At least 16 migrants, including a woman, were being held for ransom by human smugglers in Tijuana, Mexico, according to a migrant who was freed, authorities said late Wednesday.
The Colombian military says it has seized a submarine capable of transporting more than seven tons of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico.
At least 27 people are dead in Jamaica’s capital of Kingston amid an all-out police assault on a suspected drug lord’s stronghold, a protracted push that began Monday and persisted Tuesday, the government reported.
The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday, surpassing 600, the government said.
A bomb exploded at the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, early Thursday, the state-run Telam news agency reported, citing federal police. No one was injured in the blast.
Here are some observations four days after Tuesday’s massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital:
A Rosary service and funeral were scheduled this week for Jaime Zapata, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed in Mexico last week.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha continued to grow Tuesday, with 152 reported killed in Guatemala, 16 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
The storm known as Igor was moving farther away from Canada on Wednesday morning, but could still produce hurricane-force winds in the area.
The man who disguised himself as an elderly passenger on an Air Canada flight is an “ordinary citizen” from China who probably used a smuggling ring to obtain false documents and arrange the plan, his lawyer said Monday.
The death toll from heavy rain and floods in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and surrounding areas reached 102 on Wednesday, the country’s civil defense said.
Leticia Lima was buried up to her neck in mud. Her forehead was crushed and her teeth knocked out.
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.
Officials are expected to distribute on Wednesday copies of a 25-minute video that the miners sent for their relatives.
In the central plaza, there was once an orgy of music, street dancing and revelry unmatched by any other nation in the Americas, Haitians say.
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