Los Angeles Time
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 17:41
One week before the Brussels terrorist attacks, a Saudi-led coalition bombed a market in Mastaba, Yemen. Although more people died in Mastaba than in Brussels — 106 versus 34 — the media and the international community in general ignored that earlier atrocity, as they've ignored most of the 150 indiscriminate aerial attacks reported by the United Nations and Human Rights Watch in the last year.
Thursday, March 24, 2016 - 06:55
Wednesday was supposed to mark the end of 52 years of armed conflict in Colombia. But peace negotiations underway in Havana between the government and the country's main rebel group are likely to stretch on for months, according to observers close to the talks.
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 06:56
March was the deadliest month in a decade, according to tallies by the Prensa Grafica newspaper: 16 killings a day in a country with far fewer people than Los Angeles County. Some in El Salvador believe gangs used the truce, which broke down after little more than a year, as cover to consolidate and grow. And they question whether violence truly ebbed as much as suggested, noting that homicides may have declined but disappearances increased.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 00:00
The 13-page affidavit in support of charging two Mexican nationals -- boat captain Jose Mejia-Leyva and Manuel Beltran-Higuera -- in the death of Terrell Horne III details a violent confrontation at sea.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 00:00
Although more than 500 maritime smuggling incidents have been logged off the Southern California coast since 2010, this was the first violent death.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 00:00
Mexican President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto's plan to downsize and transfer control of the federal police raises questions about his security policies.
Monday, November 26, 2012 - 00:00
Partygoers casually snorted cocaine off tables set up in the plaza at the Rocinha favela and waved guns in the air as they danced.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 00:00
Federal Police Inspector General Juan Manuel Pacheco Salgado was arrested Monday on suspicion of giving false information during the investigation of an attack in which Mexican police officers fired more than 100 bullets into the CIA operatives' SUV.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 00:00
This year's bus caravan takes mothers, wives and sisters on a nearly 3,000-mile mission across Mexican states to look for missing Central American migrants.
Monday, November 5, 2012 - 00:00
The aggressively expanding and gruesomely violent Zetas group dominates territory by controlling all aspects of local criminal businesses.