A judge was shot dead Wednesday in Mexico’s once-thriving beach city of Acapulco, local media and the state prosecutor’s office said. Local press identified the slain judge as Edmundo Roman Pinzon, president of the Superior Court of Justice in Guerrero … Read More
Over 5,000 deaths have been recorded this year as violence spirals in the Caribbean country Close to 200 people were killed in the Haitian capital over the weekend after a gang leader ordered the butchering of elderly people he suspected … Read More
The mission is intended to combat the country’s rampant gang violence What happened Some 400 Kenyan police officers arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday to launch a long-awaited peacekeeping mission. The deployment is the first wave of an … Read More
Haiti’s transitional council named former senate president Edgard Gardy Leblanc Fils as temporary president of the nation on Tuesday and tapped former youth minister Fritz Belizaire as interim prime minister. Fils and Belizaire are scheduled to hold their offices until … Read More
QUITO, ECUADOR — An Ecuadoran mayor was found shot to death Sunday, police said, as the South American country approaches its third month of a state of emergency decreed by the government to crack down on soaring gang violence. Brigitte Garcia, … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, Hope you weren’t planning a vacation in Haiti. The rival gangs have the upper hand. they’re turning the facilities at Guantanamo Bay into a processing center for Haitian migrants. Nobody asked you. There are demonstrations against Israel … Read More
The U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) said on Sunday it was obliged to airlift non-essential personnel from the United States Embassy in Haiti, as well as send more troops to the embassy to provide security. The European Union and Germany also … Read More