The Washington Post
Monday, November 7, 2011 - 00:00
Retired general and former intelligence director Otto Perez Molina of the conservative Patriotic Party won an easy and early victory on Sunday in a runoff race against tycoon-turned-political populist Manuel Baldizon of the Democratic Freedom Revival part
Monday, November 7, 2011 - 00:00
resident and one-time Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega is headed for a mandate to stay in office in Nicaragua, overcoming a constitutional limit on re-election and reports of voting problems.
Monday, November 7, 2011 - 00:00
Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has suggested his second vice president step aside while he's investigated by prosecutors and Congress for possible influence-peddling.
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 00:00
Honduran authorities have arrested 176 police officers for alleged connections to kidnappings, extortion plots and drug trafficking.
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 00:00
The National Telecommunications Commission said Socorro's station and two others have been operating without government authorization, which allow officials to seize their broadcasting equipment.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 00:00
A mayor in Mexico's western state of Michoacan was shot dead Wednesday night while campaigning for President Felipe Calderon's sister in her run for the governorship.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 00:00
Inmates rioting at a jail attacked other prisoners, killing eight, and took four police officers hostage Wednesday, authorities said.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 00:00
Mexico's Defense Department says soldiers have rescued 15 Honduran migrants who had been kidnapped and were being held in a house in Nuevo Laredo on the border with the United States.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 00:00
One of the world's most secretive movements is taking aim at a just as clandestine mafia, right out in the open.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 - 00:00
But just what they might do, as a claimed Friday deadline approaches, remains unclear, perhaps even to the loosely coordinated Internet community.