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Auditors: $167 million misspent in Mexico airport project
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican federal auditors say they have found $167 million in mismanagement and questionable expenses at a now-cancelled project to build a new Mexico City airport. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had…
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Mexico invites international experts on case of 43 students
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government will once again invite a team of international experts to investigate the case of 43 students missing since 2014. Human rights official Alejandro Encinas said Wednesday the case…
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Mexican court nixes 70-year-old capo’s plea for house arrest
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A court in Mexico has denied a request by convicted drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo to serve out his sentence under house arrest due to his bad health and advanced…
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Deadly crackdown stokes fear among protesters in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Jhonny Godoy had taken to Twitter to proclaim his opposition to President Nicolas Maduro, posting a video that showed him running through the streets waving the national flag as protests erupted…
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Official: 8 armed men detained in Haiti could be sent to US
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An official with Haiti’s communications ministry said Wednesday that eight men, including five U.S. citizens, who authorities say were detained over the weekend with automatic weapons and other arms could be…
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Nielsen says Central America to do more to curb caravans
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday that Central American nations have agreed to do more to stop migrant caravans and fight transnational crime. Nielsen spoke in El…
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Brazil’s president: Workers must put in more years to retire
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday proposed making Brazilians work longer before they can receive a pension, a signature campaign promise aimed at rescuing a troubled retirement system and giving a…
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Nicaraguan poet-priest Cardenal leaves hospital, thanks pope
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Renowned Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal was released from a hospital Wednesday two weeks after he entered for treatment for an infection that provoked other ailments. Luz Marina Acosta, assistant…
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Mexico activist killed days before pipeline referendum
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A community activist fighting against a plan to build a gas pipeline through his central Mexico town was killed Wednesday, three days before a scheduled public referendum on the energy generation…
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Venezuelan oil chief blames fire on opposition
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s oil minister is blaming a fire at an important oil pumping station on opponents of President Nicolas Maduro. Maj. Gen. Manuel Quevedo says Tuesday’s fire at the Ero Station in…
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Mexico seizes more than 1,300 pounds of cocaine at sea
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s navy says it has seized more than 1,300 pounds (630 kilograms) of cocaine from a speedboat off the country’s Pacific coast. A high-speed pursuit using a navy Black Hawk helicopter…
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Customs intercepts over $12M in meth at border crossing
PHARR, Texas (AP) — Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted nearly $13 million worth of methamphetamine inside a truck carrying frozen strawberries that crossed into the U.S. from Mexico. The agency on Tuesday said officers…
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Mexico closes temporary migrant shelter near US border
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Officials in the northern Mexico border state of Coahuila said Tuesday they have closed a shelter in the border city of Piedras Negras where about 1,600 Central American migrants had been…
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Jailed Citgo executives in limbo amid Venezuela turmoil
HOUSTON (AP) — A faint voice comes through the crackled phone line. On the other end, Tomeu Vadell, speaking from a military counterintelligence prison in Venezuela’s capital, asks his daughters in Louisiana whether they’ve gone…
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Venezuela shuts sea, air links to Dutch islands amid turmoil
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan officials said Tuesday that the country is banning air and sea trips to and from three Dutch Caribbean islands — a region that has been linked to efforts to undermine…
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