Associated Press
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 00:00
A human rights activist from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, says she fears being murdered and wants asylum in the United States.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 00:00
The Defense Department said in a statement that gunmen opened fire on troops who were investigating a tip about suspicious activity Saturday night at the ranch in the town of China, near Texas.
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 00:00
Two previous Ciudad Juarez police chiefs have quit their jobs since 2008 after criminals killed police officers and threatened to kill more unless they resigned.
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican drug cartels now operate virtually uninhibited in their Central American backyard.
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
His daunting task: to reduce crime in this city of 1.3 million, which registered more than 3,000 homicides last year amid the nation's soaring drug violence.
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
CBS News and the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity reported that agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigating gunrunning by cartels allowed hundreds of guns purchased in the U.S. to go into Mexico.
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
The Archdiocese of Havana said the government planned to release Oscar Elias Biscet, a dissident who was arrested during an internationally criticized roundup of dissidents in 2003.
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
Con esta protesta, suman 35 las huelgas de hambre que se han registrado en el pais en lo que va del ano.
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
Las autoridades uruguayas investigan un video en el que supuestos militares amenazan con iniciar operaciones para liberar a uniformados presos por violaciones a los derechos humanos durante la dictadura de 1973 a 1985.
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 00:00
Federal police have arrested another suspected drug cartel member for alleged links to last month's attack in Mexico that killed one U.S. agent and wounded another.