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A top leader of the Gulf drug cartel was killed during a two-hour gun battle with Mexican security forces in the border city of Matamoros, authorities said.
A top Nation of Islam official arrested in Guyana on suspicion of terrorism was released by police Friday afternoon and is demanding a formal apology, he and his lawyer there told CNN.
Guatemala’s president has authorized the extradition of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo to face money-laundering charges in the United States, state media reported Tuesday.
The United States and Mexico should both legalize marijuana in an attempt to break the power of the Mexican drug cartels and end the spiraling violence south of the border, a former Mexican foreign minister said Tuesday.
Residents of a center-city neighborhood in Guatemala City, Guatemala, are still in shock after a massive sinkhole opened last weekend, gobbling several buildings and nearly an entire intersection, according to local officials.
Once it clears the Yucatan Peninsula, Tropical Storm Karl could emerge in the Bay of Campeche and became a hurricane by Friday, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday evening.
A Cuban government-run website has begun translating into Spanish and posting online leaked U.S. government cables that discuss the island nation.
The mayor of Piedras Negras, Mexico, and the secretary of public works and transportation in the state of Coahuila were killed in a plane crash Wednesday, the government-run Notimex news agency reported.
Haiti has an opportunity to address the worst crimes of its past in prosecuting former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, a leading human rights monitoring agency says.
The founder of a Mexican Catholic order sexually abused minor-age seminarians and fathered three children with two women, the religious sect has revealed.
A 5.6-magnitude earthquake shook Cuba on Saturday.
At least 53 people were killed in a fiery attack at a casino in an upscale area of Monterrey, Mexico, government and emergency officials said.
Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in Saturday as Colombia’s new president, vowing to unify his country around the goals of prosperity for all and of thwarting the nation’s leftist rebels.
Hurricane Igor weakened late Monday, but maintained its status as a powerful Category 4 storm as it churned in the open waters of the Atlantic.
Members of a Colombian leftist rebel group released two more longtime prisoners Wednesday afternoon, bringing the total released since February 9 to six, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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