MASS KIDNAP, KILLING SHAKES IMAGE OF MEXICO CITY
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON FILE – In this file photo composite of images taken from flyers made by relatives showing 10 of at least 12 young people who were kidnapped…
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DEATH TOLL IN BOLIVIA PRISON CLASH RISES TO 31
Associated Press A woman who has a family member inside the Palmasola jail, behind, reads a newspaper with the front page covered with the story of yesterday’s deadly riot with…
MADURO VS. CORRUPTION: IN EARNEST OR POWER GRAB?
By FABIOLA SANCHEZ Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks at the inauguration of a new branch of the National Experimental Security University (UNES) in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. A…
MEXICO PROSECUTORS APPEAL DRUG LORD’S RELEASE
The undated file photo distributed by the Mexican government shows Rafael Caro Quintero, considered the grandfather of Mexican drug trafficking. A Mexican court has ordered the release of Caro Quintero…
GOVERNMENT: PRISON MELEE LEAVES 30 DEAD IN BOLIVIA
By CARLOS VALDEZ Inmates relatives surround an ambulance leaving the Palmasola jail in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. At least 15 inmates were killed, many in a fire,…
COLOMBIAN REBELS SUSPEND PEACE TALKS IN HAVANA
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Pablo Catatumbo, chief of the western bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, center, speaks to journalists accompanied by Ricardo Tellez, left, and Ivan…
POLICE: AT LEAST 15 DIE IN BOLIVIA PRISON MELEE
By CARLOS VALDEZ Inmates relatives and members of the press surround an ambulance leaving the Palmasola jail in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. At least 15 inmates were…
PARAGUAY CONGRESS GIVES LEADER NEW MILITARY POWER
By PEDRO SERVIN In this Aug.15, 2013 photo, Paraguay’s President Horacio Cartes, center, and Vice President Juan Afara, right, attend a military parade in Asuncion, Paraguay. Cartes wants open-ended, blanket…