Besieged Mexican town cheers arrival of soldiers
LA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds…
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Struggling Spain offers engineers to Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Spain's development minister is urging Brazil to hire some of the engineers that her own economy doesn't have room for.
Ex-Arg. dictator Videla died after shower fall
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Preliminary autopsy results say former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla died from fractures and a…
Venezuela opposition: Audio suggest Cuban meddling
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition has released an audio recording that it says contains a prominent member of the ruling…
Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people…
Large earthquake strikes off coast of Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Chile on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but Chilean…
Drug charge for Virgin Islands environment officer
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Federal agents have arrested the top enforcement officer for the U.S. Virgin Islands environment agency on…
Mexico judge orders prison for suspects in killing
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A judge on Saturday issued an order for the imprisonment of two waiters accused in the beating death of Malcolm…
Dissident ex-general released in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities have released a dissident ex-general who was jailed on charges of inciting unrest…
Reporter remembers fear in Videla's Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was just about a day after Argentine strongman Jorge Rafael Videla had seized power in March of 1976,…
