Associated Press
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 00:00
The charges against include kidnapping, illegal possession of firearms, using a stolen vehicle and criminal association, prosecutors said in a statement. Those jailed include six men accused of directly participating in the abduction and a 59-year-old wom
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 00:00
Panama's government said Wednesday the long-awaited extradition of former dictator Manuel Noriega is one step closer to reality after a French court said it received U.S. approval to send Noriega home to face a 20-year prison sentence here.
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 00:00
Party that held power in Mexico for seven decades hails key state election victory over Luisa Maria Calderon, sister of the president.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 00:00
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said Tuesday he will grant a U.S. extradition request for former president Alfonso Portillo, who faces U.S. charges of money laundering related to the alleged embezzlement of $1.5 million in foreign donations.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 00:00
The ruling junta of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia designated 52-year-old Timoleon Jimenez as the new chief on Nov. 5, a day after Alfonso Cano was killed while trying to break out of a military cordon in southwestern Colombia.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 00:00
Monday's official vote count shows that the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or the PRI, surged to victory by winning hundreds of thousands of votes back from the leftist party that pushed it out of the governorship 10 years ago in a pattern that, accor
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 00:00
Al menos dos o tres debates mas estan programados antes de que los lideres de la oposicion se enfrenten en elecciones primarias para escoger un solo candidato.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 00:00
The problem is of such scale that even the main architect of the program acknowledges that policing alone will not halt the drug trade. Instead, the goal of the invasions is to win back strategic territory and take guns away from the gangs.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 00:00
Los complejos, segun informaron las autoridades, pertenecen a la banda criminal 'Los Urabenos', las FARC y el ELN.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 00:00
Enrique Pena Nieto dijo el lunes que el gobierno del presidente Felipe Calderon tomo acertadamente la decision de combatir el crimen organizado pero califico su estrategia como "insuficiente" porque adolece de un marco legal que defina en detall