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2013-12-03 PANAMA CITY, Panama – Panamanian police recently incinerated 11.5 tons of cocaine and 298 kilograms of marijuana at a landfill outside the nation’s capital of Panama City. (Rodrigo Arangua/AFP)
2013-12-02 CALI, Colombia – Counter-narcotics agents seized 3.7 tons of marijuana from a truck in a rural area in the department of Valle del Cauca on Nov. 29. (Luis Robayo/AFP)
2013-11-05 PANAMA CITY, Panama – Line 1 of the Panama Metro, which cost US$1.8 billion, will benefit a million people daily when it opens in February 2014, becoming Central America’s first underground mass transit system. (Rodrigo Arangua/AFP)
2013-05-13 Biotechnos, a company in the city of Santa Rosa in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, is responsible for the Bioplanet project. The goal is to produce 125 million liters of biodiesel by the 2014 World Cup. (Courtesy of Biotechnos)
2011-07-14 GUATEMALA CITY – Guatemalan police accompany Elgin Enrique Vargas Hernández, who is accused of killing Argentine singer Facundo Cabral, to the Supreme Court of Justice in the nation’s capital. Cabral was found fatally shot on July 9. (Jorge Dan López /Reuters)
2011-06-24 MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderón and Javier Sicilia embrace during a discussion with victims of violence in the nation’s capital on June 23. Sicilia, whose son was killed in March, has given a voice to thousands of Mexicans who have been impacted by violent crime. (Bernardo Montoya/Reuters)
2011-06-10 MEXICO CITY – Suspected members of the Los Zetas cartel are displayed to the media after being apprehended during raids in which 204 rifles, 11 guns, 15 grenades, more than 29,000 bullet cartridges and more than 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of cocaine were confiscated in the states of Coahuila and Nuevo León. (Jorge Dan López/Reuters)
2011-05-31 MEXICO CITY – Federal Police officers display weapons seized during a recent operation in which 36 suspected members of the criminal organization La Familia Michoacana were apprehended in the state of Michoacán. (Jorge Dan López/Reuters)
2011-05-25 GUATEMALA CITY – Elder Estuardo Morales Madrid is escorted by National Police officers after arriving at the air force base in the nation’s capital on May 24. Morales Madrid was arrested on charges of masterminding the murders of 27 farm workers in the department of Petén on May 15. (Jorge Dan López /Reuters)
2011-05-24 GUATEMALA CITY – A suspected member of the Los Zetas cartel is escorted by a police officer after he and two other suspects were taken by helicopter to the nation’s capital. The men recently were arrested in Quetzaltenango in connection with the May 15 killing of 27 farmer workers. (Doriam Morales/Reuters)
2011-05-03 MEXICO CITY – Jesús Cárdenas Pérez is accused of killing seven people, including Juan Francisco Sicilia, the son of Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, who was found dead along with six others inside a car on March 28 in the city of Morelos. Cárdenas Pérez was presented to the media on May 2. (Jorge Dan López/Reuters)
2011-03-31 GUATEMALA CITY – Suspected narcotics trafficker Juan Ortiz López is escorted by law enforcement agents in the nation’s capital on March 30. (Paolo Raquec/Guatemala Presidency/Handout/Reuters)