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Mexico to close prison famous for drug lord escapeMexico has announced it will close the “Puente Grande” federal prison made famous by the 2001 escape of convicted drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
The Associated Press28 minutes ago
FILE - In this Oct 28, 2019 file photo, a worker wheels out a newly purchased freezer for a customer at a "dollar store" as shoppers wait to enter, in Havana, Cuba. A debit card backed by remittances that recently became popular in Cuba because people can use it to buy home appliances, food, and replacement parts has landed on the U.S. government’s restricted list, as of Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, in a statement by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
US adds popular Cuban debit card to restricted listA debit card backed by remittances that recently became popular in Cuba because people can use it to buy home appliances, food and replacement parts has landed on the U.S. government’s restricted list
The Associated Press54 minutes ago
Former paramilitary leader deported to ColombiaOne of Colombia’s most wanted paramilitary leaders has been flown back to his home country after spending 12 years in U.S. prisons for drug trafficking
The Associated Press2 hours ago
Brazil vets work to heal jaguars burned in Pantanal wildfireVeterinarians in the Brazilian state of Goias are working to heal jaguars injured in the wildfires crackling their way through the Pantanal wetlands, including a sedated female whose paws were scorched
The Associated Press5 hours ago
Locals walk past a mural dedicated to Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes, in Mexico City, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. Cortes and his men conquered the city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, in August 1521 after an epidemic of smallpox brought in by the Spaniards ravaged the city. In light of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, it remains unclear how much humanity has learned from one of the greatest mass die-offs due to the smallpox epidemic, which gave rise to the first successful vaccine in 1796. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
500 years ago, another epidemic swept Mexico: smallpoxThere were mass cremations of bodies; entire families died and the inhabitants of the city, afraid to pull their bodies out, simply collapsed their homes on top of them to bury them on the spot
The Associated Press7 hours ago
Fabio Rodolfo Vasquez, right, poses with a fan at a promotional event outside a coffee shop, on the outskirts of Guatemala City, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. Vasquez and his wife, Maria Moreno, entered an online dance contest during the new coronavirus pandemic to help them cope with the recent death of their daughter — and won it. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Mourning daughter, a Guatemalan couple find healing in danceFabio Rodolfo Vásquez and María Moreno entered an online dance contest during the coronavirus pandemic to help them cope with the recent death of their daughter — and won it
The Associated Press7 hours ago
Mexico official: definitive COVID-19 toll will take 2 years Mexico's top coronavirus official says definitive data on the death toll from COVID-19 won't be available for “a couple of years.”
The Associated Press19 hours ago
Police end Mexico toll booth takeovers after 8 monthsOf all the forms of protest in Mexico, taking over highway toll booths is one of the odder and more lucrative
The Associated Press23 hours ago
11 killed in bar shooting in Mexico's most violent stateGunmen have killed 11 people and wound a twelfth in a bar in the central Mexico state of Guanajuato
The Associated Press23 hours ago
Normal college students join family members of the 43 missing students from the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa, in a march to mark the sixth anniversary of the 43 students' enforced disappearance, in Mexico City, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
Mexico to pursue soldiers, federal police in abduction probeMexico has issued 25 arrest warrants for those who carried out and knew about the abduction of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014, including for the first time members of the military and federal police
The Associated Press2 days ago
Informant in top Venezuela case accused of lying to fedsThe Associated Press has learned that a key informant against one of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s closest aides has been accused of lying to his law enforcement handlers in a case involving millions of dollars transported on private jets in violation of U.S. sanctions
The Associated Press2 days ago
FILE - In this Nov. 17, 2019 file photo, supporters of former President Evo Morales sit over a mural emblazoned with his first name, in Sacaba, Bolivia. Morales, a 60-year-old former coca farmer and union leader, faces terrorism and other charges in Bolivia and is not an election candidate in the upcoming October elections. Some human rights advocates believe the charges amount to political persecution of Morales. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)
He's not running, but Morales looms large in Bolivia voteEven in exile, Evo Morales is a factor in Bolivia’s election next month
The Associated Press2 days ago
In this In this photo released by the El Salvador Presidential Press Office, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele swears in Milena Mayorga as the country's next ambassador to the U.S., at Government House, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. A top 10 finalist in the 1996 Miss Universe pageant, Mayorga is a political neophyte with no previous diplomatic experience, having been elected to congress for the first time in 2018. (El Salvador Presidential Press Office via AP)
El Salvador's next US envoy met Trump at Miss UniverseEl Salvador’s next ambassador to Washington is someone President Donald Trump might remember from his days as a beauty pageant boss
The Associated Press3 days ago
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 1989, file photo, the Archbishop of San Salvador, Mons. Arturo Rivera y Damas and journalists view the bodies of six Jesuit priests murdered in San Salvador. The sentencing of former Salvadoran colonel Inocente Orlando Montano to 133 years in prison by a Spanish court on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, in relation to the 1989 massacre by an elite comando unit is raising calls once again for El Salvador to investigate and prosecute the masterminds of the massacre. (AP Photo/John Hopper, File)
Push within El Salvador to advance priest massacre caseFor years, attempts within El Salvador to investigate and prosecute the masterminds of a massacre of six Jesuit priests during that country’s civil war have been delayed and deflected by legal maneuvers
The Associated Press3 days ago
National Guard troops equipped with riot gear stand guard at Las Pilas dam, two days after withdrawing from nearby La Boquilla dam after clashing with hundreds of farmers, in Camargo, Chihuahua State, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he regretted the killing of a woman and the wounding of her husband following a Tuesday clash between National Guard troops and farmers over water. (AP Photo Christian Chavez)
Mexico wants to pay US water debt, stay out of US electionMexico's president is calling on angry farmers in northern Mexico to allow the country to pay its water debt to the United States, noting he does not want Mexico to become an issue in the U.S. elections
The Associated Press3 days ago
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