Guatemala’s national police chief and the country’s top anti-narcotics official have been arrested in connection with the drug trade, Attorney General Amilcar Velasquez announced.
The toll from torrential rains and landslides in Guatemala moved higher Monday, with disaster officials reporting 44 dead, 56 injured and 16 missing.
Ten Mexican federal police were killed and several others wounded in an ambush on a convoy Monday, the government said.
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Spanish oil company Repsol is in “the exploration stage” of oil drilling off of Cuba’s northern coast, prompting a controversy in south Florida over fears of a potential spill.
Increased cooperation with the United States in the fight against Mexican drug cartels is vital, but American agents will always be limited on their actions in the country, Mexico’s interior ministry said Wednesday.
A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Chile early Saturday, killing at least 78 people and triggering tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific basin.
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The mayor and a council member were gunned down Wednesday in a city in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in the third occurrence of political assassinations in the past two weeks, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.
More than 111,000 people died in last week’s massive earthquake in Haiti, the government announced, even as it officially ended the search-and-rescue phase of its response to the disaster.
The president of a Venezuelan TV station that has been critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday at an airport on charges that he abused his right to free speech.
Six people, including one minor, were killed Sunday in a natural gas explosion at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, authorities and state media reported.
A coal mine explosion early Thursday in northwest Colombia has trapped at least 70 miners and killed at least five workers, a local official told CNN en Español.
The International Bridge between Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, was closed Wednesday because of rising water on the Rio Grande, Laredo officials said.
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