Murder suspect Joran van der Sloot has arrived at the Lima police headquarters in Peru, where he is facing charges that he killed a Peruvian woman.
Gunmen opened fired on two U.S. immigration agents in Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring the other, officials said.
Five Mexican states are monitoring the Gulf oil spill, Mexico’s top environment official said, according to the state-run news agency Notimex.
The former president of Argentina underwent major surgery Sunday on his right carotid artery, the country’s official news agency reported.
Five Cuban-American members of Congress expressed concern Friday over reports that the Obama administration is planning to announce rules loosening restrictions on travel and economic aid to Cuba. They asked the president to reconsider.
It’s the largest producer of cocaine in the world and a key supplier of heroin to the United States.
Three days after police officers protesting a new law physically attacked Ecuador’s president and allegedly held him at a hospital for hours, the country’s interior minister says the government remains convinced that the uprising was an attempted coup.
At least 106 people have died after a tropical storm battered Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador over the weekend, officials in those countries reported.
Sunday.
The governor of the Mexican state of Baja California said Monday he is asking the federal government for a natural disaster declaration after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake shook the region.
A man suspected of conspiring with a terrorist network responsible for the deaths of five U.S. soldiers in Iraq will learn Friday if he will be granted bail by a Canadian court.
At least eight people have died in a cold snap in Argentina in the past several days, the nation’s state-run news agency reported.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday’s decision on Arizona’s immigration law “a step in the right direction.”
Federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed suit against former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and a former Cabinet minister, charging them with misusing public funds to send more than 10 million letters to retirees telling them about low-interest payroll loans from Banco BMG, according to the state-run Agencia Brasil.
A federal appeals court in Argentina has ruled that a grandmother must stand trial for growing two marijuana plants in her backyard.
The toll climbed to more than 50 people killed in Monday’s ambush on a Mexican federal police convoy and an unrelated prison uprising, authorities said Tuesday.
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