Reuters
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 00:00
Daniel Rendon-Herrera, known by the alias "Don Mario," was charged with conspiring to support the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) rightist paramilitary group, which the U.S. State Department has designated a foreign terrorist organization.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 00:00
President Barack Obama will face strong opposition from many fellow Democrats if he asks Congress to approve two free-trade agreements that his predecessor George W. Bush negotiated with Panama and Colombia
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 00:00
Calderon is seeking stiffer penalties for military deserters who join organized crime groups and an enhanced security role for the domestic intelligence agency, among other changes, the reports said.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 00:00
Gangs and their culture of violence, drugs and crime are one of America's pressing social ills. But in the borderlands the problem has an urgency that has federal investigators worried.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 00:00
Mexican soldiers fighting a war against drug cartels have arbitrarily detained suspects, beating and torturing them with electric shocks, a senior human rights official said on Wednesday.
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 00:00
A Venezuelan court has ordered the arrest of exiled opposition leader Manuel Rosales on corruption charges and asked Interpol to detain him after he fled to Peru
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 00:00
He is expected to request asylum in Peru, which will add him to a long list of Chavez adversaries living out of the country
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 00:00
Spending billions of dollars on Ecuador's neglected poor majority, Correa has built a huge following in the volatile country that will likely help him win a second term on Sunday and consolidate his socialist rule.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 00:00
Carlos Pascual, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and a senior director on the White House's National Security Council staff, was proposed by President Barack Obama in March.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 00:00
Arizona's governor and two U.S. senators urged the federal government on Monday to send hundreds of additional troops to secure the porous Mexican border, along which ruthless drug cartels are waging bloody turf wars