Gunmen kill 11 in northern Mexican bar
Gunmen opened fire in a bar in northern Mexico, killing 11 people, and the body of a newspaper editor was found shot dead on the side of a highway in two separate attacks, police said Friday.
Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Category 2 Hurricane Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.
Gunmen opened fire in a bar in northern Mexico, killing 11 people, and the body of a newspaper editor was found shot dead on the side of a highway in two separate attacks, police said Friday.
A jury on Friday found three men guilty in the killing of a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man outside a St. John bar last year.
Prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a second retired general in the disappearance of 12 people during the Colombian army's bloody 1985 retaking of the Palace of Justice from leftist rebels.
Brazil's president said Friday that emerging market nations like Brazil must have a strong say in developing strict international rules for financial institutions.
A man was arrested Friday as a suspect in the slaying of a Swedish couple who were found hacked to death in their home in a tourist district of the normally placid southern Caribbean island of Tobago.
The booming prices for Venezuelan oil, Brazilian soy beans and Chilean copper that brought prosperity to Latin America are heading for a bust that threatens to erode the hard-won gains of its poor and newly emerging middle class.
The Venezuelan government has ordered nearly all McDonald's restaurants in the country closed for 48 hours for what it calls irregularities in the fast-food chain's financial books.
A Brazilian court says the former head of Sao Paulo's secret police was responsible for torturing three people during the country's military dictatorship in the 1970s, apparently the first time a former high-ranking officer has been found guilty of crimes in the military regime.
The Panama Canal expansion project is getting a $400 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank. Panama Canal Authority administrator Alberto Aleman said Thursday that the IDB's approval of the loan demonstrates confidence in the project ``despite the world financial crisis.''
Five state police officers were killed in the western Mexican state of Jalisco by grenade-lobbing gunmen who fired more than 800 bullets in the attack, authorities said Thursday.
Sixteen Cabinet ministers offered their resignations to Peruvian President Alan García on Thursday in the wake of an oil-kickback scandal.
Shining Path rebels ambushed a column of military trucks in Peru's southeastern mountains with a bomb and gunfire, the military high command said Friday, killing 12 soldiers and seven civilians in the deadliest rebel attack in years.
Violent turbulence experienced aboard American Airlines Flight 908 just half an hour before landing at Miami International Airport Friday morning sent six people to local hospitals.
Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough - barely - to go around.
Mexico's central bank has auctioned off another US$3 billion in foreign reserves, its third auction of the day in an increasingly aggressive bid to push the peso stronger. In all, the bank sold off $6.4 billion.
Countries spending billions on financial rescue packages should spend a few extra "peanuts" to fund aid programs for those worst hit by the global financial crisis, the U.N. refugee chief said Friday.
Brazil's main stock index plummeted more than 10 percent in early trading Friday after steep declines in Asia, Europe. Other Latin America markets fell sharply as well.
A hurricane warning has been issued for the west coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula as a weakened Hurricane Norbert churns in the Pacific.
Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Category 2 Hurricane Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.