Six people were strangled to death and one decapitated in the tourist resort of Cancún, while shoot-outs and new mass graves are reported from Monterrey and Tamaulipas.
Colombia announced the arrest of Cesar Demar Vernaza AKA “El Empresario”âaccused crime boss of Ecuador and top South American operative of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel.
Citing escalated criminal violence, Honduras’ Congress suspended the prosecutor generalâbut has not acted against the National Police chief, accused of death squad links.
The Brazilian state of Acre declared a state of “social emergency” in response to a surge of undocumented migrants from neighboring Bolivia and Peru.
Several were killed in confrontations across Mexico’s violence-torn MichoacĂĄn stateâincluding when gunmen fired on crowds commemorating the death of Emiliano Zapata.
Colombian peasants held a mass meeting to press for agrarian reform as talks with the FARC continue in Havanaâbut fighting and repression continue around the country.
Peru's President Ollanta Humala is under growing pressure from the right-wing opposition to grant a "humanitarian" pardon to imprisoned ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori.
Peru's President Ollanta Humala oversaw a ceremony at Lucanamarca village, delivering a "symbolic" package of reparations for the massacre there in April 1983.
Peru’s Congress has opened a high-profile investigation into a contract with Israeli security firm Global CST, entered into by the previous government of Ălan GarcĂa.
Gunmen shot up nightclubs in Chihuahua, Oaxaca and Guerrero, killing 11 and kidnapping oneâthe latest in a surge of violence since the change of government in Mexico.
Following the slaying of a “Community Police” commander in Guerrero state, members of the popular militia seized public buildings and detained 12 “official” police agents.
A new study correlating arms sales with dealers’ locations estimates that about a quarter of a million firearms purchased in the US are smuggled into Mexico each year.
