Latin American Herald Tribune
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 00:00
Mexican police arrested a reputed lieutenant of the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel and dismantled a gang of kidnappers in the central state of Mexico, the top prosecutor in that state said.
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 00:00
Five members of a family that ran a cell of an international people trafficking ring that specialized in smuggling Indians into the United States have been arrested.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 00:00
At least six inmates died and eight guards were taken hostage in a brawl that soon turned into a riot at a prison in the southwestern Venezuelan state of Tachira on the Colombian border.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 00:00
The opposition Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation said Tuesday that in December there were a record 796 temporary arrests for political reasons on the Communist-ruled island.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 00:00
The government has captured the majority of Mexico's most dangerous criminals, thanks to the federal security strategy, President Felipe Calderon said.
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 00:00
Clashes between police and farmers opposed to mining concessions left at least 80 people injured, two of them seriously, in the southern Peruvian region of Apurimac, local media reported.
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 00:00
The number of reported lynchings of suspected criminals in Guatemala has increased from 25 in 2004 to 147 in the first 10 months of this year, the national ombud's office said Friday.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 00:00
Fifteen protesting oil workers were injured Wednesday in clashes with riot police outside two refineries operated by Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol, union officials said.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 00:00
Sunday's elections in Guatemala and Nicaragua were notable for their relative lack of controversy, despite the conclusion of virtually all independent analysts that the former risks a return to the violence of the past and the latter was contrary to Nicar
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 00:00
The dismembered bodies of two men were found in a busy street in Ciudad Juarez, a border city in northern Mexico, and their heads inside two coolers, police said.