Associated Press
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
Mexico has increasingly turned to troops to take on law enforcement because repeated cleanup crusades have failed to cure the corruption and lack of professionalism that plagues the country’s police forces
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
That marks the first time in decades that formal removals from the U.S. outpaced arrests at the border
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had a good laugh when he discovered that a Benetton advertisement shows him kissing his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
The Brazilian Senate voted 59-7 Tuesday to approve new environmental legislation that would loosen restrictions on deforestation in the Amazon and give amnesty to those who illegally cleared land before July 2008.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
"These new attacks are part of a campaign of violence and insecurity in general, and of threats and intimidation against editors and journalists in particular that we have been denouncing in Honduras," said the president of the group's committee
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire said the plan involved a criminal ring "of international dimensions," but it was quashed in September before it could be carried out
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 00:00
A border that is sealed off to all illegal immigrants and drugs flowing north is a promise none of them could keep
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 00:00
The destruction between August 2010 through July 2011 was about 2,410 square miles
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 00:00
The opposition stems from questions about Aponte's relationship decades ago with a Cuban-American that scuttled her nomination during the Clinton administration to be ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and a more recent essay she wrote in June to mark
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
Several presidents stressed during the two-day summit that they hope to ride out turbulent times by boosting local industries and increasing trade within the region