Marijuana cultivation in Mexico increased 35 percent in 2008 and continues to grow, even as authorities there push forward with a large offensive against drug cartels that smuggle the product into the United States, according to a State Department report released this week.
When the earth started to shake on January 12, Rocher Joseph-Michelet was in his tiny, one-room apartment, composing lyrics for the upcoming Carnivale in Port-au-Prince.
As one of the highest officials in the Mexican Catholic Church, Monsignor Victor Rene Rodriguez has been receiving the alarming reports from all over the nation.
The International Bridge between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, was closed Wednesday because of rising water on the Rio Grande, Laredo officials said.
Gunmen shot dead the Sinaloa state director of Mexico’s security agency, the agency said Saturday.
Climate change is altering diets and lifestyles among Inuit people, according to a scientist who has studied the human face of global warming in the Arctic.
Riot police fired tear gas and sent hundreds of demonstrators running a day after Haiti’s national elections ended in turmoil amid allegations of widespread fraud.
Heavy rains and flooding in Brazil have caused 260 deaths in the states of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, CNN affiliate TV Record reported Wednesday.
With 25 people killed in violent outbreaks, Thursday was one of Chihuahua state’s deadliest days of the year, the state Investigations Agency said on Friday.
A compressor exploded Tuesday morning inside a government-owned oil refinery in northeastern Mexico, forcing the evacuation of the facility’s workers, state-own oil company Pemex said.
Opponents and supporters of Venezuela’s government staged rival demonstrations Sunday in the streets of the capital to mark the anniversary of a popular revolt that overthrew a dictatorship in the South American country in 1958.
The Colombian military says it has seized a submarine capable of transporting more than seven tons of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico.
On his knees in the soggy soil, 9-year-old Alexis Ocampo digs deep into the earth, his small gardening rake separating dirt from rocks. “Look, I found a worm!” he shrieks.
Having spent its fury on Haiti, Tomas was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm Saturday but continued on its wet and blustery path as it passed over the Turks and Caicos Islands and moved toward the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Cuba’s Roman Catholic cardinal says he is in discussions with President Raul Castro to liberate some of the country’s jailed dissidents.
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