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In his political rhetoric, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega makes no secret of his often hostile views towards U.S. foreign policy.
Mexican police stopped more than 500 illegal migrants from Asia and Central America in Chiapas, southern Mexico.
Colombia's police captured 25 members of gang 'La Camila,' an armed group that is accused of murders, narco-trafficking, extortion and…
El Salvador's drug trade gets relatively little attention, overshadowed by the chaos in Mexico, but a new investigation has cast…
Guatemala declared a state of siege in the northern department of Peten as details began to emerge of the massacre…
A massacre in northern Guatemala, which has left at least 27 people dead, is another reminder of the growing influence…
El Salvadors government has proposed a new tax, based mainly on Colombia's experience from earlier this decade, to raise funds…
A banner signed by Mexican drug gang the Beltran Leyva Organization claims that the group supports Javier Sicilia, a poet…
A new Mexican "telenovela," or soap opera, is aimed at boosting the image of Mexicos federal police and their fight…
Mexico's government offered an implicit defense of President Calderon's so-called kingpin strategy, which holds that the best way to take…
Venezuela's government announced the capture of alleged FARC operative Didier Rios Galindo, alias Ñenguere, who is accused of handling drug…
As Haiti's President Michel Martelly begins his first week in power, among the legions of challenges facing the new leader…