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Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
But when Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cuba on Monday, hundreds of Cuban-Americans will be on hand in Santiago de Cuba when he celebrates Mass.
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 00:00
Water bottles, shoes, food wrappers - these are some of the things left behind by the thousands of people who try to cross the border between Mexico and the United States every year.
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 00:00
In Mexico, even the criminal gangs, which know how to get their message out, are welcoming the pope. In the past episodes of intimidation, the narcos have lined up a series of human heads outside a slaughterhouse and piled human corpses outside a conventi
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 00:00
Cuba's churches are mostly empty and until the 1990s, believers were barred from the Communist Party.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 00:00
Jimenez could be a link between the Sinaloa cartel headed by Mexican druglord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Colombian narco brothers Luis Enrique and Javier Antonio Calle Serna.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 00:00
Still, Central American presidents insisted they will talk about decriminalizing narcotics in a meeting scheduled in two weeks, according to a joint statement read after the meeting with Biden.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 00:00
These deadly events underscore the problems of corruption, overcrowding, prison gangs and crumbling infrastructure that prisons face throughout the region.
Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 00:00
The state of Morelos was formerly under the control of the Beltran Leyva gang, which broke up after its leader was killed by Mexican marines two years ago.
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 00:00
"They took off, and there I was. The democratically elected president of Honduras, standing in my pajamas in the middle of a runway in Costa Rica," Zelaya says.
Monday, February 13, 2012 - 00:00
At some point, the police will totally lose legitimacy, he says, and there will be even more lawlessness - that's when a society breaks down.