Associated Press
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 00:00
Deep federal budget cuts are forcing the U.S. to send fewer surveillance planes and Navy ships to halt Latin American drug shipments
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 00:00
He did not make direct reference to the decision to embalm Chavez and put him on permanent display, but he said: "You are playing politics with the president's body."
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 00:00
While Maduro has filled the leadership void since Chavez disappeared from public view after his surgery, many Venezuelans find him bland and uninspiring.
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 00:00
The recently appointed tourism minister in western Jalisco state was shot to death Saturday while driving in a suburb of Guadalajara in an attack that may have been related to his business dealings
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 00:00
La Fiscalia colombiana ordeno el domingo las capturas de un jefe policial y un ex funcionario de la liquidada policia secreta por considerarles presuntos coautores del asesinato del candidato presidencial Luis Carlos Galan en 1989
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 00:00
Later Thursday, the National Assembly speaker announced that Maduro would be sworn in tonight as acting president following a state funeral and would call elections within 30 days
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 00:00
Cesar Alfredo Meza Garcia on Thursday became the first person to be extradited under Mexico's new president, Enrique Pena Nieto
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 00:00
Twenty-one members of a drug gang linked to the Sinaloa cartel have been detained in connection with as many as 30 killings and the abduction of five non-editorial employees of a newspaper who were later released
Friday, March 8, 2013 - 00:00
At the Pima County Forensic Science Center on The University of Arizona Medical Center campus, file cabinets hold dossiers on more than 700 unidentified corpses discovered since the late 1990s.
Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 00:00
"He couldn't speak but he said it with his lips . . . 'I don't want to die. Please don't let me die,' because he loved his country, he sacrificed himself for his country," Gen. Jose Ornella told The Associated Press