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Colombia extradites jailed warlords

AP - 1 hour 22 minutes ago

BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's interior minister says the government is extraditing 14 paramilitary warlords to the United States for failing to comply with a peace pact. More »

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  • Brazil activists fear death squads back

    AP - Tuesday, May 13

    ABAETETUBA, Brazil - Bishop Flavio Giovenale was crushed by the acquittal last week of a rancher accused of ordering the killing of a crusading American nun _ and not just because he admired Dorothy Stang. More »

  • Mexico police say drug cartel killed No. 2 cop

    AP - Tuesday, May 13

    MEXICO CITY - A police officer and four other people with suspected ties to a powerful drug cartel have been arrested in the assassination of Mexico's acting federal police chief, authorities said Monday. More »

  • Cuban migrants land in Mexico after 17 days at sea

    AP - Tuesday, May 13

    CANCUN, Mexico - An attempt to reach Florida turned into 17 days at sea for Cuban migrants crammed aboard a rickety sailboat that drifted ashore in Mexico near the Belize border. More »

  • Chavez criticizes Germany's Merkel

    AP - Tuesday, May 13

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Hugo Chavez accused German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party of sharing the same ideals as Adolf Hitler and warned he might confront her at Friday's summit of Latin American and European leaders in Peru. More »

  • Bolivia's Morales approves August recall vote

    AP - Tuesday, May 13

    LA PAZ, Bolivia - President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia's nine governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that his unfinished term will survive a referendum whose peculiar rules tilt in the populist leader's favor. More »

  • Death toll from capsized ferry in Haiti hits 13

    AP - Tuesday, May 13

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A U.N. official says the bodies of two teenagers have been found near a capsized Haitian sailboat, raising the death toll to 13. More »

  • Thousands protest violence in Mexico

    AP - Monday, May 12

    CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Thousands of white-clad people marched silently Sunday to protest a surge of drug-related violence in a Mexican city across from Texas where the No. 2 police officer was shot dead. More »

  • Chavez says Colombia seeks war with Venezuela

    Chavez says Colombia seeks war with Venezuela

    AFP - Monday, May 12

    CARACAS (AFP) - - President Hugo Chavez said Sunday on his radio talk show that neighboring Colombia is trying to provoke Venezuela into a war so as to draw in and "justify" an armed intervention by the United States. More »

  • At least 20 dead, dozens missing as Haiti ferry capsizes

    At least 20 dead, dozens missing as Haiti ferry capsizes

    AFP - Monday, May 12

    PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) - - A ferry capsized late Saturday off the coast of Haiti, killing at least 20 people, including five children, and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said Sunday. More »