AP - Mexico's army says its troops seized 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco.
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2012-02-09 07:22
2012-02-09 07:22
Haitians bound for Brazil languish in Peru's Amazon (Reuters)
Reuters - Nearly 300 Haitians fleeing the poverty of their earthquake-ravaged homeland have been stuck for a month in the Peruvian Amazon, where a gate to what they saw as a better life in Brazil has abruptly closed.
2012-02-09 07:22
Ecuador newspaper columnist requests US asylum (AP)
AP - A former Ecuadorean newspaper columnist who faces prison and millions of dollars in fines for his criticism of President Rafael Correa requested asylum Wednesday in the U.S., claiming he is the victim of persecution aimed at stifling free expression.
2012-02-09 07:22
Texans sentenced for buying guns for Mexican cartel (Reuters)
Reuters - Nine Texas men and women have been sentenced to prison for purchasing firearms for Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel, and a dozen others face charges linked to a Department of Justice probe into weapons trafficking, officials said on Wednesday.
2012-02-09 07:22
Long-hidden archives help Guatemala war crimes trials (Reuters)
Reuters - The secrets from a vault of moldy documents long covered in bat and rat droppings could soon help to put former top Guatemalan officials behind bars, years after the country's brutal civil war ended in 1996.
2012-02-09 07:22
New discoveries raise Dominican migrant toll to 41 (AP)
AP - Authorities in the Dominican Republic have recovered 20 more bodies of migrants who were aboard a boat that capsized, raising the death toll to 41, officials said Wednesday.
2012-02-09 07:22
UN backs Haitians' appeal over Duvalier trial (AP)
AP - A U.N. official expressed support Wednesday for Haitian victims of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier's regime who plan to appeal a judge's recommendation that calls for trying the ex-leader only for alleged financial crimes and not human rights abuses.
2012-02-09 07:22
Mourners: Slain US couple 'spiritual soldiers' (AP)
AP - Friends recalled John and Wanda Casias as "spiritual soldiers" who gave their lives to God and hearts to Mexico, where the American missionaries were slain last week.
2012-02-09 07:22
Salvadoran indicted on Mass. immigration charges (AP)
AP - A former Salvadoran military officer accused of a role in the 1989 deaths of six Jesuit priests has been formally indicted in Massachusetts on charges he lied under oath and made false statements on U.S. immigration forms.
2012-02-09 07:22
Mexican navy recovers 15 bodies from mass graves (AP)
AP - A suspected member of the Zetas drug cartel led Mexican authorities to mass graves at two ranches in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz where marines unearthed 15 bodies by Wednesday.
2012-02-09 07:22
Mexico party rally ends with 650 food-poison cases (AP)
AP - Officials of a Mexican political party are apologizing to 650 Indians and other people who suffered food poisoning after attending a campaign rally in southern Mexico.
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