Associated Press
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 00:00
The mines were laid in the 1970s when tensions were high between Chile and Peru.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 00:00
Alejandro Jimenez Gonzalez, a Costa Rican accused of leading a criminal group involved with money laundering in Central America, was captured Monday on a cruise ship in the Colombian Pacific port of Bahia Solano.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 00:00
The Chihuahua city government said the band violated a three-month-old city ordinance prohibiting songs that glorify traffickers.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 00:00
Rafael Cardenas Vela pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine and marijuana in exchange for the government dropping money laundering and immigration charges.
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 00:00
In Mexico's last presidential election six years ago, Twitter was preparing to launch, Facebook was open mostly to a few thousand Ivy League students and the iPhone was just a rumor.
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 00:00
Prosecutors told the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper that cases involving kidnappings and hiding of bodies may fall outside the amnesty law that released civilians and military from liability for political crimes.
Monday, March 12, 2012 - 00:00
Mexican federal police nearly nabbed Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in a coastal mansion in Los Cabos three weeks ago.
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 00:00
He calls it a "chronicle of an exclusion foretold," playing off the title of a novella by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 00:00
Mexican authorities found 16 bodies in three clandestine graves on the outskirts of Monterrey, an industrial city that has seen an upsurge in drug cartel-related violence.
Friday, March 9, 2012 - 00:00
The indigenous federation has played a key role in protests that toppled Ecuadorean presidents in the past. It originally backed Correa after he took office in 2007, then became disillusioned.