The Washington Post
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 00:00
Colombia's main rebel group is offering to arm coca growers who have been blocking roads for more than a month in a turbulent northeastern region
Monday, July 22, 2013 - 00:00
Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, issued a statement on its Twitter account blaming the blast on an attempt to steal oil with an illicit tap
Friday, July 19, 2013 - 00:00
The papal visit's $150 million price tag-a third of it covered by Brazil- probably won’'t make things easier.
Friday, July 19, 2013 - 00:00
Authorities are investigating whether the attack is related to this week's capture of top Zetas leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales
Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 00:00
Oaxaca state has remained mostly free of drug-related violence that has affected other areas of Mexico, where journalists have been targeted.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 00:00
The image of the illegal border-crosser is no longer a farmworker jumping the fence in Tijuana, analysts say. It is a Central American teenager riding on top of a Mexican freight train.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 00:00
At a time when illegal immigration to the United States remains near its lowest point in four decades, the number of Central Americans coming north has soared, putting new attention on the rail system.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 00:00
MEXICO CITY — Top Mexican drug cartel captures or killings:
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<br />— July 15, 2013: Authorities in northern Mexico capture Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, alias “Z-40,” leader of the brutal Zetas cartel.
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<br />— Oct. 7, 2012: Mexican marines kill Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, alias “El Lazca,” a founder and top leader of the Zetas. His body is later stolen from a funeral home. Trevino Morales takes over the Zetas.
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Monday, July 15, 2013 - 08:09
Military officials say they have uncovered mass graves of decomposing bodies, networks of underground tunnels and caches of buried arms in raids that killed dozens of Islamic extremists in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri.
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 08:05
Sudan’s indicted leader Omar al-Bashir arrived Sunday in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, to a red-carpet welcome and a full guard of honor despite demands from human rights activists that Nigeria arrest him to face trial for genocide in Darfur.