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  • Striking police officers and their relatives, left, walk past soldiers as they leave the state legislature building in Salvador, Brazil, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. The strike had sparked an immediate spike in violence in Brazil's third-largest city, with murder rates more than doubling since it started last Jan. 31, scaring tourists away from Salvador in the run-up to the city's iconic Carnival festivities.

    Rio police strike exposes marred institution

    A strike by Rio police a week ahead of Carnival celebrations is drawing attention to a deeply troubled force in which low wages help fuel corruption, extortion and lethal violence, experts said Friday. Photo Gallery Available

  • New discoveries raise Dominican migrant toll to 51

    Authorities in the Dominican Republic have recovered 10 more bodies from the weekend sinking of a boat carrying illegal migrants. That raises the confirmed death toll to 51.

  • Cocaine found in Ecuador diplomatic mail

    Ecuador's foreign minister says police in Italy found nearly 90 pounds (40 kilos) of cocaine in diplomatic mail sent to the Mediterranean country and two suspects have been arrested.

  • Colombia's Hector Buitrago, aka "Martin Llanos", is escorted by National Guard officers during his deportation to Colombia at the Simon Bolivar airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Buitrago was captured last Feb 4, along with his brother Nelson Buitrago in Venezuela's eastern town of El Tigre.

    Venezuela deports paramilitary warlord to Colombia

    Venezuela turned over a prominent Colombian paramilitary warlord to Colombian authorities on Thursday. Photo Gallery Available

  • Mexican army chief admits mistakes in drug war

    The Mexican army's highest official concedes the military has committed errors in the fight against organized crime and drug traffickers but says those responsible have been punished.

  • Suit challenges new Guantanamo prison mail rule

    A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit against the prison commander, arguing a new rule subjecting legal mail to a security review is unconstitutional and amounts to illegal "intelligence monitoring" of a U.S. citizen.

  • Protesters from the Ngobe-Bugle tribe block a road during a protest in El Vigui, Panama, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. Members of the Indian tribe blocked roads in two provinces on the border with Costa Rica in a dispute over mineral exploitation on their lands.

    Panama Indians win withdrawal of dam, mines law

    Legislators in Panama have agreed to reconsider a law on dams and mining that set off disruptive protests by Indians and their supporters. Photo Gallery Available

  • FILE - This Dec. 11, 2011 file photo, shows Panama's former strongman Manuel Noriega gesturing while being carried in a wheelchair by a police officer inside El Renacer prison, on the outskirts of Panama City. A police statement issued Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012 says Noriega was taken from the El Renacer prison to Santo Tomas hospital after he had high blood pressure and apparently a brain hemorrhage. Noriega returned to Panama on Dec. 11 and is serving three 20-year sentences for the killings of political opponents in the 1980s.

    Noriega leaves hospital in Panama, returns to jail

    Medical authorities in Panama say former dictator Manuel Noriega has left a hospital four days after fainting in the prison where he is serving time for murder, embezzlement and corruption. Photo Gallery Available

  • Brazil files injunction against Twitter

    A request for an injunction to stop Twitter users from alerting drivers to police roadblocks, radar traps and drunk-driving checkpoints could make Brazil the first country to take Twitter up on its plan to censor content at governments' requests.

  • FILE - This Feb. 3, 2009 file photo, shows Colombia's former Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, center, arriving for a press conference in Villavicencio, Colombia. Colombia's Attorney office asked a judge in Bogota to issue an arrest warrant against Colombia's former Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, who faces charges on the alleged false demobilization of some rebels of Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces, FARC.

    Arrest warrant issued for close Uribe associate

    The chief prosecutor's office obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for ex-President Alvaro Uribe's longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column of leftist guerrillas.

  • In this photo taken Jan. 20, 2012, workers look up as concrete mix is poured during the construction of a new metro station for the newest metro line 12, also known as the Golden Line, in Mexico City. The 20-station metro line is expected to open this summer, cutting in half a commute of more than four hours a day by bus or car for people living in and around the semi-rural borough of Tlahuac.

    Mexico City modern metro meets ancient Aztec life

    After two hours' grueling drive southeast from the center of Mexico City, through paralyzing traffic jams and clouds of throat-burning smog, the bleached-white haze of air pollution gives way to pale-blue sky. Photo Gallery Available

  • CORRECTS PHOTO BYLINE TO PGJQR - In this photo released by the Quintana Roo state Attorney General's Office on Thursday Feb. 9, 2012, reality television producer Bruce Beresford-Redman left, stands next to an airplane while in custody of police upon his arrival at the airport in Cancun, Mexico early Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Beresford-Redman was extradited from the U.S. to await trial for charges of killing his wife in April 2010 while on vacation in Mexico.

    Lawyers: Reality TV producer hopes to avoid trial

    Lawyers for a U.S. reality television producer facing trial for allegedly murdering his wife at a Mexican resort said Thursday they hope to persuade a judge to drop the charges and free their client. Photo Gallery Available

  • Map site of ruins

    Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins

    The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited. Photo Gallery Available

  • A soldier stands in a room full of barrels containing white and yellow powder after a seizure of a small ranch in Tlajomulco de Zuniga, on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. According to the Mexican army, 15 tons of pure methamphetamine were seized at the ranch, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009.

    Mexican army finds 15 tons of pure methamphetamine

    The historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in western Mexico, equal to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009, feeds growing speculation that the country could become a world platform for meth production, not just a supplier to the United States. Photo Gallery Available

  • Mexican army finds 15 tons of pure methamphetamine

    Mexico's army says its troops seized 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco.

  • Mexico party rally ends with 650 food-poison cases

    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.

  • UN backs Haitians' appeal over Duvalier trial

    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.

  • Protestors stand in front of soldiers maintaining a blockade around the Bahian state legislature building, where up to 300 striking police officers and their families are holed up, in Salvador, Brazil, Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012. Crime reportedly jumped when one-third of the 30,000 police in Bahia walked off the job Jan. 31. Though violence has tapered off a bit since more than 3,400 soldiers and federal police were sent in to patrol Salvador on Sunday. The striking police officers are demanding pay raises and amnesty for what a judge ruled an illegal work stoppage.

    Brazil: Rio police holding strike vote

    Police are threatening a strike that could prompt violence during this tropical city's popular Carnival bash in spite of government approval Thursday of a police pay raise. Photo Gallery Available

  • UN says Caribbean crime hurting economies

    Rising crime across the Caribbean threatens the region's tourism-based economy and has exposed a weak and ineffective judicial system, according to a sweeping U.N. study released on Wednesday.

  • A couple walks past a billboard displaying images of the five Cuban intelligence agents imprisoned in U.S., popularly known as the "Cuban Five," in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday Feb. 8, 2012. A lawyer for five Cuban agents convicted of espionage and sentenced to long jail terms in the U.S. says there could be a political solution linking his clients' fate with that of an American contractor imprisoned in Cuba.

    Lawyer for Cuban agents vows last-ditch appeal

    A lawyer for five Cuban agents sentenced to long jail terms for spying in the United States said Wednesday he is preparing a last-ditch appeal, arguing that one of the men received bad counsel and that the jury for all five was prejudiced because the U.S. paid several journalists who covered the trial. Photo Gallery Available

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