MEXICO CITY, May 18, 2012 (AFP) – A Mexican newspaper reporter kidnapped in the northwestern border state of Sonora was found dead Friday with signs of torture, local officials said. Marco Antonio Avila Garcia, a police reporter with the newspaper … Read more →

SANTIAGO, May 17, 2012 (AFP) – Chilean police arrested 70 protesting students late Wednesday as thousands took to the streets of the capital seeking an overhaul of what they call one of the world’s priciest and most unfair education systems. … Read more →

BOGOTA, May 16, 2012 (AFP) – At least two people were killed and 39 wounded in Colombia’s capital Tuesday when a bomb exploded in what President Juan Manuel Santos said was an assassination attempt against a former interior minister. “I’ve … Read more →

MONTERREY, Mexico, May 14, 2012 (AFP) – Mexican investigators on Monday searched for perpetrators of a heinous drug-war massacre in which 49 people were killed, decapitated, dismembered and left in plastic bags on the side of a rural highway. The … Read more →

MEXICO CITY, May 11, 2012 (AFP) – Drug traffickers are applying a policy of terror against journalists who fail to follow their wishes, with threats and brutal killings silencing the press in many parts of Mexico. In the past five … Read more →