SAO PAULO, Brazil — As euphoric rock music played, dozens of men in suits swarmed the aisles with hand-held credit card machines to...
CUATRO MILPAS, MEXICO— In this hardscrabble farming village, an American teenager like Luis Martinez was bound to stand out. |
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ECATEPEC, Mexico — As the country is driven deeper into despair, their industry coasts to success.
MEXICO CITY — The leafy green parks of Mexico City's elegant Polanco neighborhood have their politically comforting statues.
ISLA HOLBOX, Mexico — Separated from the Yucatan Peninsula by a lagoon, this pristine island has streets of sand, iguanas that roam...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Among the many thorny issues to be hammered out in peace talks beginning Wednesday in Oslo between Colombia's...
SAN DIEGO — A woman claiming to be the daughter of the world's most wanted drug trafficker was arrested at the San Ysidro port of...
Gang violence in Central America has led to a startling increase in the number of children who make the dangerous journey across the Mexican...
The fatal shooting of a teenager suspected of throwing rocks at U.S. Border Patrol agents has prompted strong condemnations from Mexican...
MEXICO CITY — A leading human rights group contends that the Mexican government under outgoing President Felipe Calderon has...
MEXICO CITY — He was called the Executioner, a founding member and top leader of the vicious Zetas paramilitary force.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his supporters on Monday celebrated his reelection, while many in the...
MEXICO CITY— The Mexican navy on Monday announced the capture of an alleged field commander of the Zetas crime organization whom it...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez apparently won reelection by a convincing margin Sunday, with allegiance among...
ELDORADO DOS CARAJAS, Brazil — At 4 in the afternoon on April 17, 1996, a 13-year-old girl with blond hair climbed onto a truck...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Jesus Ramirez is taking no chances. He and his wife bought several pounds of fish and beef at the Mercal state-...
MEXICO CITY — Cuba’s best-known blogger was arrested Thursday to keep her from covering a sensitive criminal trial involving the...
CARACAS, Venezuela — In choosing between incumbent Hugo Chavez and challenger Henrique Capriles in Sunday's presidential election,...
CARACAS, Venezuela — In a driving rainstorm before tens of thousands of flag-waving red-shirted supporters gathered in downtown...
TRUJILLO, Colombia — The 11,000 coffee bushes clinging to the steep slopes of his 10-acre farm represent nothing less than a miracle...
A U.S. pilot program designed to deport illegal immigrants by flying them to Mexico City will operate for only two months this year and...
MEXICO CITY — Somewhere underneath the hull of Armando Tovar's boat, the aquatic manifestation of the great god Xolotl was...
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities working closely with their U.S. counterparts scored big in the fight against drug cartels with the...
MEXICO CITY — No one knows exactly why Aleph Jimenez Dominguez, an Ensenada activist, disappeared last week. In Mexico, people...
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans took to the streets Wednesday to protest a proposed law that is aimed at modernizing rules in the workplace and...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Venezuelan police on Tuesday captured Colombia's most wanted fugitive, the notorious Daniel "El Loco" Barrera,...
SAO PAULO — Melanito Biyouha tries to remember the languages she's heard today at her restaurant in Sao Paulo's African corner.
TAPACHULA, Mexico — With the first light of day, a team of investigators using shovels and brushes begins picking through the red dirt...
MEXICO CITY — Under a banner declaring "ours is a question of dignity," defeated presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...
SANTA RITA DO SAPUCAI, Brazil — Muscular young men in red jumpsuits hunch over a set of matching stationary bicycles, sweating and...
MEXICO CITY — Authorities have captured the top leader of the Gulf cartel, a potentially fatal blow to one of Mexico's major drug-...
TORONTO — The suspect in a fatal shooting at a Montreal political rally for a Quebec separatist party probably acted alone, police...
MEXICO CITY — The first time Mexico's star Olympic diver Paola Espinosa met her Chinese coach, it was more than language that put them...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Prospects for an end to more than four decades of armed rebellion in Colombia inched closer to reality Tuesday as...
MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela — On a campaign visit here last month, presidential candidate Henrique Capriles ran through the streets of...
LOS TEQUES, Venezuela — As he and his partner drove at dusk through a warren of metal and concrete-block shacks that's a haven for car...
MEXICO CITY — Outgoing President Felipe Calderon told Mexicans in his final state of the union address Monday that although their...
SAN DIEGO — Eduardo Arellano Felix, one of a band of brothers who headed what was once Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking...
MEXICO CITY — Dismissing arguments that recent elections were rife with fraud, Mexico's electoral tribunal on Friday officially...
MEXICO CITY — In the midst of a violent drug war, President Felipe Calderon fired crooked cops by the hundreds, and hired new ones...
California public health officials warned state residents Wednesday against eating Daniella-brand mangoes imported from Mexico, saying...
CARACAS, Venezuela — An early morning explosion and fire at Venezuela's largest refinery killed at least 39 people Saturday and left...
ECATEPEC, Mexico — At 14, Jessica Lucero had already lived a hard life. A stint in rehab, dropping out of school, making her way,...
CARACAS, Venezuela — It's prime-time TV in Venezuela and the host is saying that opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles,...
BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday night said his government was in "exploratory discussions" to end more...
Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya, who spent decades speaking out against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of...
MEXICO CITY — Sunday's presidential election represents a difficult test for Mexico's wobbly democracy: Can it hold a fraud-free...
MEXICO CITY — He bears tiny white scars all over his hands from the sea of supporters who grasped at his outstretched arms, clawing to...
JACMEL, Haiti — "Vacation to Haiti/It nearly broke my heart."
MEXICO CITY — When Mexico's long-ruling party was ousted by voters 12 years ago, giddy celebrants hailed the event as something like...
WASHINGTON — After quietly testing Predator drones over the Bahamas for more than 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security plans...
CULIACAN, Mexico — The cartel henchman nicknamed "El Loco" was reported behind the latest atrocity in Mexico's ever-more-depraved drug...
MEXICO CITY — Pollsters say many Mexicans haven't made a final decision on whom to support in the July 1 presidential election,...
CULIACAN, Mexico — For generations, the extended Hernandez family tended fields of marijuana high in Sinaloa's western Sierra Madre...
BOGOTA, Colombia -- A little wild pig named Josefo, abandoned by his mother, helped keep Sgt. Jose Libardo Forero sane.
If Carlos Fuentes could have invented the perfect character to star in one of his novels, he might have come up with a protagonist named...
COLUMBUS, N.M. — From a small hill at a state park here, the border town of Palomas, Mexico, can be made out through the desert haze....
MEXICO CITY — Tomas Borge, last living founder of Nicaragua's Sandinista movement and one of its most hard-line enforcers as it...
SAN DIEGO — Alleged drug kingpin Victor Emilio Cazares, among the most wanted trafficking suspects in the United States, has been...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Honored here on his 80th birthday last week with a congressional medal and dinner with the president, Colombia's...
Over at the Getty Villa, a fantastic hybrid sculpture is holding court in a powerful exhibition that explores the ancient Mediterranean...
MEXICO CITY —Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, who led the country amid economic meltdown and natural disaster in the...
Ricardo Legorreta, the architect who introduced Mexican modernism to a global audience and who brought his crisp, brightly colored aesthetic...
WASHINGTON — Police and federal agents pulled the car over in a suburb north of Denver. An FBI agent showed his badge. The driver...
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the...
Last fall's slaying of Mario Gonzalez, the brother of a Mexican state prosecutor, shocked people on both sides of the border. Sensational...
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The claim by senior ATF officials that none of the weapons lost in the botched Fast and Furious sting operation were used in the shooting of...
Two days after U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was killed in December, the top ATF supervisors in Phoenix said in internal emails...
Congressional investigators probing the controversial "Fast and Furious" anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at...
Reporting from San Salvador and Mexico City -- Argentine songwriter and singer Facundo Cabral, an icon of Latin American folk and protest...
Gilbert "Magú" Luján — a painter, muralist and sculptor whose whimsical, slyly humorous art works, frequently evoking a...
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