Associated Press
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
Two hundred sailors raided an upscale apartment complex and killed a reputed Mexican drug cartel chief in a two-hour gunbattle, one of the biggest victories yet in President Felipe Calderon's drug war.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
"This is the brilliance of the drug cartels. They pay ordinary people to get cash across the border for them, and then easily launder it into working capital to build and expand their violent and illicit operations," said Louise Shelley, who dir
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
One of the most wanted figures in the drug war was killed in a shootout with the Mexican Navy on Wednesday, an official said. Arturo Beltran Leyva and three members of his drug cartel died in the gunfight in an apartment complex in Cuernavaca, south of Me
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
Two hundred sailors raided an upscale apartment complex and killed a reputed Mexican drug cartel chief in a two-hour gunbattle, one of the biggest victories yet in President Felipe Calderon's drug war.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
There was no information on the possible motive for the slayings, but beheadings are a hallmark of Mexico's brutal drug gang violence. Durango, a mountainous, largely rural state, is a major battleground for drug trafficking territory.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
A man whose pyramid investment scheme bilked fellow Colombians out of hundreds of millions of dollars has been sentenced to 30 years and eight months in prison for a money-laundering conviction.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
A man whose pyramid investment scheme bilked fellow Colombians out of hundreds of millions of dollars has been sentenced to 30 years and eight months in prison for a money-laundering conviction.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
It's been nearly five months since the presidents of Brazil and Paraguay agreed on a breakthrough deal to triple Paraguay's income from the world's second-largest hydroelectric dam, but the money won't be flowing anytime soon.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 00:00
El presidente Alvaro Uribe afirmo el miercoles que Colombia seguira persiguiendo con "medios juridicos" a miembros de las FARC que esten fuera del pais, al tiempo que califico como delicadas las revelaciones contenidas en un informe ecuatoriano
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 00:00
The anti-coup National Resistance Front said gunmen in a car shot Walter Trochez on Sunday as he walked in downtown Tegucigalpa