The United States Department of Homeland Security is buying an entire town in the south-west US for use in its anti-terror training. Playas, in the state of New Mexico, will be bought for $5m from the …
Suspect Arrested in Journalist Slaying
Mexican authorities have arrested a man in connection with the beating death of a Mexican newspaper columnist in the border city of Matamoros, officials said Saturday. Raul Castelan Cruz was arrested …
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Attorney General's Office investigates terror suspects
Mexico is investigating two men who were expelled from Central America and whose use of false passports led officials to suspect possible terrorism links, the federal Attorney General's Office said. …
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Colombia to issue I.D. cards to its citizens in Washington
A pilot program is in place for the Colombian embassy and consulates in the United States to issue "matricula consulars" as a valid form of identification card for its citizens here, Colombian Foreign …
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El Salvador Deports Apparent Jordanians
El Salvador on Tuesday expelled two men believed to be Jordanians who presented false documents that led some regional officials to wonder if they might be terrorists — a question that remained open …
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Arreola bros. nabbed in operation
Authorities arrested the Arreola brothers, Angel and Luis, who allegedly headed an international drug trafficking and money laundering ring, the Attorney General's Office reported Friday. A source at …
Court discards torture case
A Latin American human rights court said Tuesday it could not hear the case of a man allegedly tortured into confessing murder in Mexico because the crime occurred years before Mexico accepted the …
Drug chief, 7 others, killed in gunbattles
Gunmen killed a boss of one of Mexico's main drug cartels and two other people in an ambush at a cinema complex, and five of the assailants were killed in shootouts with police shortly afterward, …
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Editor's murder fuels concerns for free speech
The editor of a political magazine who was kidnapped in May apparently has been killed and his body burned the fourth journalist investigating corruption to be killed in Mexico this year. Family …
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Ban on street vendors aims to halt crime wave
Julio César Fuentes, a 38-year-old with a third-grade education, has a lucrative career on Mexico City's traffic-jammed streets, leaping at cars and squirting soap-foamed water to wash windshields. …
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