Fifteen people -- including two women -- were tortured and executed in the border state of Tamaulipas, state media said.
Fifteen people -- including two women -- were tortured and executed in the border state of Tamaulipas, state media said.
Mexican federal authorities arrested 62 police officers in the state of Baja California Thursday suspected of ties to organized crime and drug trafficking, the state's attorney general said, according to the state-run Notimex news agency.
A predawn, hourlong gun battle -- the latest volley in an escalating series of attacks on Mexican federal police by drug cartel hit men -- left three cartel gunmen dead Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a federal police spokesman told CNN.
The Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez has closed to "review its security posture," the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said Thursday in a statement.
A journalists' organization has called on the Mexican government to rescue four journalists believed held hostage by a drug cartel.
An 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest was found stabbed to death in his church in the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, CNNMexico.com reported Thursday, citing state police.
A top lieutenant in a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in northern Mexico, federal police said in a statement Wednesday.
A top lieutenant in a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in northern Mexico, federal police said in a statement Wednesday.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Patricia Espinosa called Wednesday's decision on Arizona's immigration law "a step in the right direction."
I wake up with the light, just before 6 a.m., and reach for my vitamin pills hanging above my hammock. I get out of bed and peer through the gloom to see if Cho is up yet and has started the fire. If so, I will probably go to the river and check the fishing net to see if we have a catch.
It was a swift reaction. After the Colombian government accused Venezuela of harboring terrorists last week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez broke off relations with his neighbor.
The killings of seven journalists in Honduras so far this year have not been seriously investigated by authorities, creating an atmosphere lawlessness and impunity, concluded a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists released Tuesday.
Cuba's Fidel Castro on Tuesday said he would publish a new book in August on the fighting more than 50 years ago between his ragtag rebels and the 10,000-strong army under former dictator Fulgencio Batista.
A guard has been killed at a Mexican prison where authorities say the warden let out inmates nightly to commit drug-related slayings, the state-run news agency said.
Rachel Sussman is a time traveler. For the last few years, the American photographer has journeyed across the globe on a mission to bring back images of the world's oldest living organisms.
The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations brought his country's complaints about neighbor Colombia to the U.N. secretary-general Monday in the form of a letter explaining his government's decisions.
About 300 indigenous people from eight ethnic groups have released about 100 workers who had been held hostage on the banks of the Aripuana River to protest construction of a hydroelectric dam over what they consider a holy site, Brazilian state media reported Monday.
With the death of the poet Peter Orlovsky in late May a chapter in America's cultural life came to a discreet end.
Cuba commemorated the 57th anniversary Monday of the attack that started Fidel Castro's revolution, but President Raul Castro did not speak, unlike in the previous three years.
A man who local police believe was responsible for a fatal car bombing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, is in custody, a municipal police spokesman told CNN Sunday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday said his country will stop exporting oil to the United States if there is a military attack stemming from escalating tensions between Venezuela and Colombia.
Fidel Castro appeared publicly in his trademark olive green shirt on Saturday for the first time since he fell ill and renounced power four years ago, according to a state-run website.
For 10 years passionate sailing enthusiast Thomas Lemon has been building boats that seem to defy all logic.
Five Cuban political prisoners and their families boarded an airplane to Madrid, Spain, on Thursday night, bringing the number of prisoners released into exile in the past two weeks to 20, according to the Spanish Embassy in Havana.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that he is breaking off relations with Colombia. His decision comes as the Organization of American States meets to discuss Colombian claims that Venezuela is protecting FARC and ELN rebels in its territory.
Colombia laid out its case against Venezuela Thursday in front of the Organization of American States.
Hunger strikers protesting the Mexican government's shutdown of a power company ended their 80-day demonstration Friday, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
Cuba has replaced its health minister, Communist Party stalwart Jose Ramon Balaguer, recognizing his good work but offering no details for the change.
The United Nations stepped up its defense Thursday of its beleaguered boss with high-level staffers speaking out in support of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Using high-tech robotic cameras, a team of scientists is getting a rare first glimpse of marine life in the North Atlantic that could shed light on the ocean's ecosystem and climate to as far back as 1,000 years.
Eight suspected drug traffickers were killed in a confrontation with the Mexican army Thursday in northern Mexico, a federal police official said.
Rescue workers looking for at least five people believed to be trapped under a landslide have resumed their search in Chinautla, Guatemala, a volunteer firefighter said Thursday.
Authorities in Guatemala say they've detected an increase in vibration inside a volcano that killed three people when it erupted in May.
Biologists suspect that unusually cold waters off the coast of Brazil were responsible for the deaths of more than 550 penguins that washed up on shore in the past 10 days.
With a few quick strokes of a pen this week, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed into law a widely debated measure that aims to end hundreds of years of racial disparity.
The United Nations remained abuzz Wednesday as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon returned to New York headquarters days after an internal report from a senior staffer sharply chastised him.
Ecuador's representative to the Organization of American States resigned on Wednesday over "differences" between OAS rules and the wishes of his government.
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved Wednesday the cancellation of Haiti's $268 million debt to the fund.
Mexico has received the support of parliamentary leaders from 10 nations in opposition to Arizona's controversial new immigration law, the Mexican Senate president said Wednesday.
A Venezuelan military aircraft crashed Wednesday, but the two-person flight crew parachuted to safety and there were no known fatalities, a civil protection official said.
Venezuela will name a government representative to the board of opposition broadcaster Globovision, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in speech Tuesday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his government has received nearly 288,000 requests for help from citizens through his 3-month-old Twitter account.
Freed Cuban political prisoners and their families are invited to "explore their options" for possible immigration to the United States, a U.S. official told CNN on Tuesday.
An intense cold front in southern Latin America continues to blanket the region, causing deaths, school and highway closures, and other woes.
A graffiti message on a wall in Juarez, Mexico, warns of a car bombing if U.S. authorities do not look into alleged ties between Mexican federal police and drug traffickers, a police spokesman said Monday.
A meeting that U.S. diplomats had requested with relatives of some Cuban political prisoners has been put on hold, dissidents said Monday.
The American Embassy in Honduras has issued a warning about classic dengue and hemorrhagic dengue fever, which have killed 21 people in the country this year. Five more deaths are under investigation.
Seventeen people were killed and 10 injured in an attack on a party in Torreon, Mexico, the state-run news agency Notimex reported, citing a representative of the federal attorney's general office.
A weeklong cold snap that has killed at least eight people in Argentina is expected to continue Monday, state media reported.
The creation of new power capacity from renewable energy has exceeded new fossil fuel power generation in the United States and Europe for the second year running, according to two United Nations reports published Thursday.
At least eight people have died in a cold snap in Argentina in the past several days, the nation's state-run news agency reported.
A car bomb killed at least four people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, authorities said.
State television showed the skeletal remains of one of Hugo Chavez's heroes Friday as the Venezuelan president called for an investigation into his death.
Three separate clashes between soldiers and gang members near the U.S. border in Mexico left a dozen people dead and 21 injured, authorities said.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared on the island's state-run television for the second time in less than a week on Friday, using the forum to again blast U.S. arms policy.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appeared on the island's state-run television for the second time in less than a week on Friday, using the forum to again blast U.S. arms policy.
Venezuela recalled its ambassador to Colombia on Friday as it rejected Colombia's assertion that Colombian rebels are living in Venezuela.
Argentina became the first Latin American country on Thursday to legalize same-sex marriage.
Colombian authorities have proof that high-ranking leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, live in Venezuela, the Colombian government said Thursday.
Six months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, most governments that promised money to a special fund to help rebuild the country have not delivered the cash, a CNN investigation has found.
Spanish oil company Repsol is in "the exploration stage" of oil drilling off of Cuba's northern coast, prompting a controversy in south Florida over fears of a potential spill.
Six months after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, most governments that promised money to help rebuild the country have not delivered any funds at all, a CNN investigation has found.
Fabricio Correa, brother of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, called the president corrupt and said he has formed a political party that will challenge his brother, he told CNN en Español.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has announced the resignation of Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont, who oversaw security efforts against drug cartels in Mexico.
Debate was under way Wednesday in Argentina's Senate on a same-sex marriage bill that already has passed the lower chamber of Congress. A vote was expected later Wednesday.
Uruguayan officials say they will fully investigate a prison fire early Thursday that killed 12 people and sent eight to the hospital, three of them in critical condition.
Seven Cuban former political prisoners started new lives Tuesday in Spain, saying they see their release as the next step toward bringing democracy to their island nation.
Six months after an earthquake devastated Haiti, a United Nations representative on the ground there says many challenges still lie ahead in the aftermath of the "worst living disaster."
A strong earthquake rattled coastal Chile early Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Thousands of Argentine protesters opposed to a same-sex marriage bill to be debated in the Senate demonstrated in front of Argentina's Congress Tuesday.
I returned to Haiti in mid June, over a month after having produced a documentary called Rescued on two children whose precarious lives depend on an orphanage run by American Christian missionaries. I don't have another story to report. I just want to go back. I am haunted by these kids. Cendy Juene is just 6 and she has no one person in the world caring for her, just the kindness of the staff at the Light House orphanage. Mark Kenson Olibris, the caretaker at the orphanage, is a young man who has grew up there and now promises he will help rebuild Haiti. They are so resilient, so inspiring, they leave me wanting to know how life is unfolding in their shaky circumstances. I decide to take my oldest daughter Sofia who is nine. She looks totally thrilled we are going together. So am I. I see this as an opportunity to share with her a major lesson I have learned from my time in Haiti. That one person can change the world, if only by changing a piece of it.
Six months ago, Michel Clervil and his wife, Eliane, looked lost in a sea of makeshift tents. Eliane nervously clutched a small hand-cranked radio distributed by the U.S. Army, while Michel periodically wiped at the sweat on his brow with a rag.
Another four Cuban political prisoners are expected to leave Havana for Madrid, Spain, no later than Wednesday, the head of Cuba's independent Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation told CNN.
Venezuelan authorities arrested an opposition politician and former presidential candidate on explosives charges Monday night, the government news agency reported.
I had been standing on the street with Jaime Lerner for less than one minute when a stranger stopped to greet him.
The United States is pushing for what would become nuclear wars against Iran and North Korea, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in a rare televised interview Monday.
The United States is pushing for what would become nuclear wars against Iran and North Korea, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in a rare televised interview Monday.
The first of 52 political prisoners to be released in Cuba are scheduled to arrive Tuesday in Spain on two commercial flights, a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman told CNN on Monday.
On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated.
The Colombian military killed 12 Marxist guerrilla rebels in a gunbattle Sunday in the central state of Tolima, President Alvaro Uribe said on his website.
Whether he's out on the ocean monitoring stingrays in the Caribbean, or back on land painting in his studio, Guy Harvey spends all his time surrounded by fish.
Every day, 10 women are killed in domestic violence cases in a country known for its glorious models, according to a new study released Sunday.
The threat of an explosive device on board prompted the diversion of an Air France flight to Recife, Brazil, while it was en route from Rio de Janiero to Paris, France, the airline said in a statement.
Child slavery has escalated six months after a devastating earthquake demolished the Haitian capital and left a generation of orphans, according to an advocate who works in the Caribbean nation.
Images appearing to show former Cuban President Fidel Castro surfaced Saturday on a pro-government blog, which claims the photos were taken Wednesday.
Vladimir Saint-Louis is glad to be back in business months after January's devastating earthquake in Haiti shut down his large athletic complex in the heart of Port-au-Prince.
Cuba's Roman Catholic church has identified 12 more jailed dissidents who are expected to be freed in what would be the largest Cuban prisoner release in more than a decade.
Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt is asking for about $7 million from the country's government for the years she spent as a hostage of leftist rebels.
A top-ranking Canadian military official serving with the United Nation's mission in Haiti has been relieved of duty while officials investigate allegations about his administration of a small unit.
A "tense calm" prevailed Friday evening in Panama's Bocas del Toro province, one day after violent confrontations between striking banana plantation workers and federal troops left one protester dead and more than 100 people injured, the president's spokeswoman told CNN.
Uruguayan officials say they will fully investigate a prison fire early Thursday that killed 12 people and sent eight to the hospital, three of them in critical condition.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas said Thursday he ended his months-long hunger strike after the nation's Roman Catholic Church announced Wednesday that the Cuban government will soon release 52 political prisoners.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon promised federal aid to three states after torrential rains soaked the area, leaving at least 15 dead and forcing the evacuation of thousands.
Edward Norton -- Oscar-nominated actor of "American History X" and "Primal Fear" fame -- is the latest Hollywood star to lend his celebrity status in support of a United Nations cause.
One person was taken to a hospital after part of a parking deck collapsed Thursday in Windsor, Ontario, police officials told CNN.
Fifty-two Cuban political prisoners are set to be freed and will be allowed to leave the country, Cuba's Roman Catholic church announced Wednesday in a written statement. It would be one of Cuba's largest prisoner releases in recent history.
At least two winning candidates in Sunday's elections in Mexico have received threats saying they will be killed if they take office, the government-run Notimex news agency reported Thursday.
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