U.S. authorities never searched the yacht they say carried an ex-CIA agent illegally from Mexico to Miami in 2005, and they have no photographs or other physical evidence that he was ever aboard, a federal investigator acknowledged Monday. Read Article
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For almost four months, doctors and nurses at Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for the young Mexican laborer who had fallen from a roof and lost the ability to speak, breathe or move most parts of his body. Read Article
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East Coast seaports from New York to Miami are in a race for government permits and funding to dig deeper harbors. The ports need more room to handle giant cargo ships expected to sail through an expanded Panama Canal in just a few years. Read Article
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Insurgents the Army battles in the future may be in Mexico, not the Middle East, Army Undersecretary Joseph W. Westphal said during a Monday lecture at the University of Utah. “This isn’t just about drugs and illegal immigrants. This is about the potential takeover of a government that’s right on our border,” Westphal said of […]
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Two Arab developers, a father and son, were sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for conspiring to commit tax fraud to hide more than $150 million dollars in assets and failing to declare $49 million in revenue. Read Article
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The Obama administration on Friday rejected a request for an emergency rule requiring gun dealers along the Mexican border to report bulk sales of assault rifles, a proposal intended to make it harder for drug cartels to smuggle weapons. Read Article
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The assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City, where he was famously killed with an ice pick to the head, was organized from a drugstore in the US, according to a former CIA agent. Read Article
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A former officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection awaiting trial on drug charges claims he was subjected to illegal torture and extradition at the hands of a drug cartel working under orders of U.S. authorities, court records show. Read Article
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Argentinean authorities captured one of the U.S. Marshals 15 most wanted fugitives in Buenos Aires on Thursday, a man accused of the brutal killing of an Arizona woman. Read Article
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Amid the peak Valentine’s Day flower season, U.S. agents in Miami are working overtime to make sure pretty love bouquets are not used as transportation by exotic South American pests or cocaine traffickers. Read Article
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U.S. customs agents in Texas seized 14 high-powered assault rifles when they searched a car heading into Mexico on Tuesday, according to the authorities. The cache of weapons was discovered in a vehicle which was searched as it attempted to cross the border into the country at the state’s Del Rio International Bridge. Read more: […]
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The Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI) – the Costa Rican child welfare agency – cannot send back to the United States the small child whose father is seeking her return. The PANI action is blocked by a decision of the Sala Constitucional after accepting a writ of habeas corpus filed by the girl’s mother, […]
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Energy giant Chevron Corp. (CVX: News ) said Tuesday that it has filed a civil lawsuit under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act as well as other federal and state laws against the trial lawyers and consultants leading a fraudulent litigation and PR campaign against the company. Read Article
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday warned Mexico’s drug cartels that any attempt to bring their violent tactics across the border would produce a powerful reaction. Read Article
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“I came to Costa Rica because I thought they would help me protect my daughter. I fear that they will take her from me and put her in the hands of a person with a history of drug abuse and violence”, said Trina Atwell following a decision by the Sala Constitucional that ordered her daughter […]
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The Guatemalan authorities captured two suspected traffickers of methamphetamine linked to Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia Michoacana who are wanted by U.S. Courts. Read Article
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A book celebrating suicide bombers has been found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border, authorities tell Fox News. Read Article
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If all goes according to plan, a collaborative project involving Earth Networks of Germantown and a Brazilian agency could predict severe thunderstorms up to 30 minutes before they hit. Read Article
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A total of 100,000 illegal Honduran citizens are going through the Mexican national territory to the USA, according to the last data published by the National Forum for Migration (FONAMIH), a non-governmental organization. There is information on a little more than 1,000 and only 340 people are correctly documented, but there is not any information […]
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Havana – All the post offices in Cuba have stopped taking U.S.-bound mails “until further notice,” the Cuban Post Company said on Friday. The decision was made in response to the new security regulations imposed by the U.S. aviation authorities on all countries, the state-owned company said. Because of the new U.S. security regulations, all […]
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As if he didn’t have enough to worry about already, Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom has been scrambling to contain the diplomatic fallout from a US embassy cable published on Sunday by WikiLeaks. The cable, dating from Summer 2008, describes outgoing US Ambassador to Guatemala James Derham’s final meeting with the Central American leader and his […]
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Costa Rican investigators have searched two football stadiums linked to a businessman charged in the U.S. with defrauding clients of his life-settlement company. Read Article
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US drug czar Gil Kerlikowske on Tuesday in Colombia stressed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s recent announcement that Caracas will intercept any drug traffic aircraft overflying Venezuelan territory. “Venezuela has expressed clearly its support for curbing drug trafficking by air,” said Kerlikowske upon the beginning of his three-day visit to Colombia, DPA reported. Read Article
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The Cuban government welcomed the latest U.S. measures to ease restrictions on travel and remittances to this country, but said they had a “limited reach.” Meanwhile, academics who spoke to IPS said the easing of the rules by an executive order issued last Friday by U.S. President Barack Obama would boost this country’s nascent private […]
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Three cruise lines will end or scale back on trips to Mexico from Southern California, a trend some in the industry attribute to escalating drug violence in Mexico that has frightened away tourists. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd’s (RCL.N) luxury liner Mariner of the Seas will depart on Sunday on its final run from the Port […]
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Venezuelan police have captured a drug suspect alleged to belong to Mexico’s Zetas drug gang. The Interior Ministry said in a statement Friday that 56-year-old Gloria Rojas Valencia was detained in Caracas this week. Read Article
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Mexican authorities have arrested a man wanted in the 2009 kidnapping of a three year old in Riverside. Israel Moreno, 29, was arrested on a federal fugitive warrant after FBI agents in Riverside learned of his whereabouts in Guadalajara, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. Moreno was one of two men charged in the May 3, […]
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A rare variety of chocolate bean, which vanished nearly 100 years ago in South America, returns this month to cafes around Portland, Oregon. Moonstruck Chocolate Co. has licensed the revived Pure Nacional cacao bean, recently rediscovered in Peru. The bean produced a fine chocolate enjoyed during the 19th century, but was thought lost to disease […]
Due punishment for international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his crimes was demanded outside the US Embassy on Monday by representatives of Salvadoran organizations. Leaders of the Salvadoran Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba gathered outside the US Embassy in San Salvador to address a letter to President Barack Obama, demanding justice against Posada Carriles. […]
Mexico will maintain punitive tariffs on 99 U.S. products but will not add any more goods or change the list pending negotiations over a new program to allow Mexican cargo trucks on U.S. roads, the government announced Monday. Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari said the move is a show of goodwill as the two countries begin […]
Chile began negotiations with the United States to join the program “Visa Waiver” whereby Chilean tourists do not require visa to travel to the country’s north. The negotiations were launched this week by Chile’s ambassador to Washington Arturo Fermandois, who presented the Chilean government’s request to enter the Visa Waiver program sponsored by the Department […]
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas woman who wants to sue the federal government for sending her U.S. citizen baby to Mexico with the child’s illegal immigrant father. Read Article
The two trusted traveler programs included in the Global Entry program by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are NEXUS and the Secure Electronic Network for Travelers Rapid Inspection (SENTRI). NEXUS is a program jointly administered by the United States and Canada that allows certain pre-approved, low-risk travelers expedited processing for travel between the United […]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today shared with Congress and the government of Mexico an initial concept document for a long haul cross-border Mexican trucking program that prioritizes safety, while satisfying the United States’ international obligations. After the demonstration program was terminated in March 2009, Secretary LaHood and other Administration officials met with lawmakers, safety […]
Arrested in Sinaloa, northwestern Mexico, a U.S. citizen of 68 years for rape of minors, authorities said. The man was identified as Robert Leman Stillings, wanted for the crime of statutory rape by a court of Detroit, United States, said the state attorney. He was arrested in Mazatlan. Read Article
Venezuela’s government will not increase its sales tax as had been expected thanks to high global oil prices, President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday. Read Article
Constitutional Court ruling allows US navy ships to enter Costa Rican waters in a joint antidrug operations with the Costa Rican Coast Guard, under the Joint Maritime Agreement in effect since 1999. The agreement permits the United States to enter Costa Rica’s waters and ports preapproved every six months by the Costa Rican legislature. Read […]
The United States and Venezuela are starting the year without ambassadors in Caracas and Washington due to an intensifying diplomatic dispute that is likely to persist and boost President Hugo Chavez’s long-standing antagonism. Read Article
The FBI told KPHO in Phoenix, Arizona has denied that the U.S. man murdered in Culiacan, Mexico on Thursday is related to any employee of the FBI.
The US has revoked the visa for Venezuela’s ambassador to Washington in what it called a “reciprocal” action for Caracas turning down the US choice for its own representative in the Venezuelan capital. Read Article
“If the government (of the United States) is to expel our ambassador there, let them do so! If they are to cut diplomatic relations, let them do so!” said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in reference to the White House’s insistence that Caracas accepts the new US ambassador-designate Larry Palmer. Read Article
Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life. The next morning, the 32-year-old New York native was dead inside his crashed van on a road outside Acapulco. He had multiple bullet wounds. […]
More than 18 months after U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors were supposed to start enforcing stringent ID requirements at the nation’s land borders, millions of travelers are still being admitted without passports or other secure IDs, a new government audit shows. An Office of Inspector General report released Monday found that CBP remains unprepared […]
A bi-national pact to allow Mexico to store a portion of its annual allocation from the Colorado River, up to 260,000 acre-feet over three years, in the largest US reservoir, Lake Mead, sets the stage for progress on environmental issues in ongoing talks between the two countries, according to Environmental Defense Fund. Read Article
A newly revealed U.S. cable portrays American diplomats in the Caribbean as being so concerned about bribery and money-laundering rumors related to Texas financier R. Allen Stanford that they warned embassy officers to steer clear of him as early as 2006. Read Article
CARACAS, Venezuela — Long-standing tensions between the United States and Venezuela are on the rise as Washington refuses to drop a nominee for ambassador opposed by President Hugo Chavez. Chavez has vowed to reject President Barack Obama’s nominee, Larry Palmer, saying the diplomat’s critical remarks about his government have disqualified him. Read the Article
According to Fox News, 150 miles north of Guatemala City, deep in the jungle, is a military base where Guatemalan Special Forces are being trained secretly by U.S. Green Berets. The U.S. officers say the Guatemalan troops are committed to the task of defeating the Mexican drug cartels and are training tirelessly. “They rest when […]
US diplomats discussed efforts to curb Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s clout in Latin America and tried to dissuade Russia from selling anti-aircraft missiles to the South American government, according to classified documents released by WikiLeaks. Read Article