The new face of U.S. aid to Colombia is not a Black Hawk helicopter or a Green Beret trainer but a smiling 77-year-old peasant clutching the...
The fatal shooting of a U.S. federal agent in Mexico may lead to new security measures for the expanding corps of American personnel...
Maybe it was all talk.
A U.S. federal agent was shot dead Tuesday and a second wounded when they were intercepted by gunmen as they drove from Mexico City into a...
Daniel Navarrete greets friends with what seems an unlikely term of affection — he calls them "ox."
On an especially deadly day in Mexico's most violent city, gunmen barged into a beer joint and killed eight people, six of them waitresses.
Carmen Aristegui, one of Mexico's best-known news hosts, likes to stir the pot. But did she go too far by saying the president should answer...
Colombian rebels released the first of five political hostages they have promised to set free amid renewed hope in some quarters that the...
Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was closer to being able to return home Tuesday after officials said they had issued a...
In another case of topsy-turvy political allegiances in Mexico, the conservative party of President Felipe Calderon on Monday appeared to...
Mexico's main leftist party appeared Monday to have retained the governorship in the southern state of Guerrero, thwarting the former ruling...
Halya Lagunesse thought she knew despair. Nearly seven years ago, the soldiers who had killed her husband gang-raped the Haitian woman and...
Facing international pressure, Haiti's electoral council Thursday dropped the ruling party candidate from the presidential runoff, a move...
With drug violence on the rise in Mexico, business travelers venturing abroad might want to think twice about traveling south of the border.
Both candidates for governor in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero claimed to have the edge Sunday in an acrimonious election that...
A bouncy Madonna tune thumps from loudspeakers on a campaign truck, an incongruous anthem for a political race draped in tension.
Jean-Claude Duvalier's unexpected return to Haiti after 25 years has awakened the ghosts of his repressive rule.
A 59-year-old American missionary was shot in the head and killed in northern Mexico, possibly because one of the local drug cartels coveted...
Former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier broke his silence Friday, five days after arriving unexpectedly in his Caribbean birthplace, expressing...
During a one-day trip south of the border, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday lauded Mexico for battling drug cartels she...
Mexican authorities said Tuesday that they have arrested a founding member of the notorious Zetas gang who oversaw the smuggling of drugs...
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