Mexico
Chicago link to Mexican mass abduction?
Another major bust of an accused Mexican cartel operative in Chicago this time involves the Guerreros Unidos—the gang named in the the disappearance of 43 college students.
Central America
Honduras: left-leaning TV news anchor murdered
The number of Honduran media workers murdered since 2003 has now risen to at least 49. The latest victim was a supporter of the center-left opposition party.
Mexico
Mexico: Raúl Salinas cleared in corruption case
He put millions in Swiss bank accounts when he was a low-paid official and his brother was president, but the courts have ruled there's not enough evidence of corruption.
Mexico
Mexico: migrant massacre document released
Mexican federal prosecutors have released a document from their probe into a 2010 massacre of migrants—pointing to collusion between local police and Los Zetas.
The Andes
Ecuador: CIA justifies Reyes ‘targeting’ in 2008
The CIA admits targeted assassinations might be ineffective at times, but claims that they can "work"—as in Colombia's killing of a rebel group's head negotiator.
Central America
Nicaragua: protests as canal construction begins
Official ceremonies marked ground-breaking on Nicaragua's inter-oceanic canal project—marred by angry campesino protests, with scores detained and injured.
The Amazon
Peru to evacuate village in Amazon conflict
Riverboats were sent to evacuate a rainforest village after it was raided by an isolated indigenous band, apparently pushed from its lands by illegal loggers and narco-traffickers.
The Amazon
Brazil: victory for indigenous land struggle
Brazil's Congress concluded work for the year, having failed to approve a constitutional amendment aimed at gutting the process of indigenous land demarcation.
Palestine
Israel high court orders settlement demolished
Israel's Supreme Court issued a rare ruling to demolish a Jewish settlement at Amona in the West Bank. The settlers pledge resistance as a deadline for eviction looms.
South Asia
Pakistan issues arrest warrant for radical cleric
A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for Maulana Abdul Aziz, controversial head of Islamabad's Red Mosque, after he expressed sympathy for the Peshawar massacre.
Greater Middle East
Turkey: clashes between PKK, Islamists
Three were killed in southeastern Turkish town of Cizre in clashes between Islamist militants of the Huda-Par and followers of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Palestine
Fatah under attack over statehood proposal
A Hamas leader said that the draft resolution for Palestinian statehood presented to the UN Security Council is "disastrous," and has "no future in the land of Palestine."