The announcement went out on Facebook, an open invitation summoning revelers to a birthday party at the Italia Inn in the northern Mexican city of Torreon. But early Sunday, as musicians serenaded amid food, drink and dancing, gunmen burst into the...

Mexican singer Sergio Vega has been killed in a gunfight just hours after he dismissed false online reports of his own death.The 40-year-old star, who was also known as El Shaka, was gunned down on his way to a concert in Sinaloa, Mexico on Saturday...

Nine people were killed and another nine wounded when gunmen opened fire on drug rehabilitation centre in northern Mexico this weekend. In the latest of a string of attacks on rehab clinics, the attackers entered the Strength for Life centre in the...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that jobs and reducing poverty will be his top two priorities in 2010, while the fight against drug cartels that dominated the first half of his presidency placed third.

Economic reform arrived at Mexico’s electrical utility on Saturday night wearing black body armor, crash helmets and ski masks. Flabbergasted workers arriving for early morning shifts on Sunday found thousands of Federal police deployed to enforce...

The first gunshot drew me racing to the window. The second sent me ducking to the floor. A crime scene was unfolding below my second-floor apartment, and it took a few moments to make sense of its moving parts: the two burly men sprinting toward a...

The news that Brazil is planning to buy French fighter jets confirms a trend across Latin America that is based in recent history and the proclivity of US lawmakers to put political restrictions on what customers can and cannot do with their...

Mexico’s ambassador to the US has urged America to stop the flow of guns and cash that pass into his country, fuelling the country’s drug wars. Arturo Sarukhan said US money and weapons provided the drug cartels with the means to...

Julie McCarthy’s description of a 100,000 acre soy farm in Brazil seems to symbolize peace, progress, and economic development: trends for a new Latin America. From colonial conquistadors to rebels and revolutionaries, the modern history of this...

The owner of a Santa Fe, N.M., high-end sunglasses store said a security camera recorded shady crooks stealing $28,000 worth of merchandise. Brian Body, owner of Acoma Optical, said the thieves spent only 39 seconds in the store while stealing more...