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Argentine federal police officers guard cocaine packets seized in the city of Rosario

World

Argentina seizes 1.6 tons of cocaine headed for Dubai

Argentine authorities seized 1.6 tons of cocaine hidden in animal feed destined for Dubai and detained 12 people, police said on Friday. The seizure,...

AFPAugust 26, 2022

Rolando Alvarez speaks during a mass in Matagalpa, Nicaragua

World

Nicaraguan police remove bishop from his home: church

Nicaraguan police on Friday forcefully removed Catholic bishop and government critic Rolando Alvarez from his official residence.

AFPAugust 19, 2022

Guatemalan journalist Jose Ruben Zamora (C), president of the newspaper El Periodico, speaks to his lawyer (L) and his son Jose Zamora, during a break in his hearing at the Justice Palace in Guatemala City, on August 8, 2022

World

Guatemalan journalist critical of president charged with four felonies

Guatemalan prosecutors on Monday charged journalist Jose Ruben Zamora with crimes including money laundering and blackmail. Zamora was arrested last week and the offices...

AFPAugust 8, 2022

Herlinda Bobadilla, 61, is accused of running one of Honduras's largest drug cartels with her sons

World

Honduras extradites alleged drug matriarch to the US

Honduras on Tuesday extradited Herlinda Bobadilla, a 61-year-old alleged gang leader arrested in a shootout that killed one of her sons.

AFPJuly 26, 2022

Carolina Soto, a member of Chile's Mapuche indigenous community, says talks with the government are not possible without official recognition of the community

World

Military redeployment turns Chile’s Mapuche areas into powder keg

With military troops once again patrolling their ancestral lands, members of the Mapuche indigenous community in Chile’s south are angry. Failure to resolve a...

AFPMay 27, 2022