 AFP - Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo has been extradited from Mexico to Guatemala where he faces corruption charges, an official from the attorney general's office told AFP Tuesday.
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 AP - Mexico's powerful drug cartels are buying drugs directly from Colombia's main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a hemispheric meeting on crime.
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 Reuters - Bodies are cut up and dumped in acid. Victims are stripped naked and hung from bridges. Others have their tongues cut out before being murdered -- Mexican gangs are using horrifying methods to outdo each other in an already harrowing drugs war.
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 AP - The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Marco is hitting land north of Mexico's Veracruz port on the Gulf coast.
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AP - Russia's foreign minister says the country's arms sales to Venezuela are meant for defensive purposes.
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 Reuters - A man shot and wounded a security guard and held 40 people hostage at a call center on Monday demanding to see his ex wife's boyfriend, but surrendered to police after a five-hour siege.
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AP - An armed man in a jealous rage took 42 hostages in a Guatemala City call center on Monday and released them unharmed and turned himself to police after a five-hour standoff, police said.
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AP - The party that governed Mexico for 71 consecutive years has rebounded in local elections, returns showed on Monday, and a poll had it jumping into the lead for next year's national congressional vote.
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 AP - Five state police officers were arrested in southern Mexico on Sunday in connection with a deadly raid to dislodge protesters from a Mayan archaeological site.
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 AFP - President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he will suspend his weekly radio program, "Hello Mr. President" until after the November 23 local elections, but that Venezuelans will still be able to see him on the news.
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AP - Mexican authorities say they have seized 7 million pills of pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient used to make methamphetamine, at the Guadalajara airport.
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AP - Bureaucrats in oil-rich Venezuela can look forward to fewer expensive SUVs, top-of-the-line mobile telephones and whiskey-fueled parties next year.
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 AP - When critically obese, bedridden Jose Luis Garza pleaded for help in shedding a few hundred pounds, he landed the world's biggest weight watcher.
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 AP - Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where nearly 50 people have been killed in a week of violence related to the drug trade.
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 AP - Give up your gas-guzzler and get a free car. That's President Hugo Chavez's offer to Venezuelans.
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Reuters - The diplomatic breach between Colombia and Ecuador widened on Saturday when Colombia called on the neighboring country to crack down on rebels using its territory to hold kidnap victims and launch attacks.
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 AP - A former Venezuelan defense minister who has become a prominent critic of President Hugo Chavez was detained by military prosecutors on suspicion of mismanaging government funds during his command.
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 AFP - Mexican police found eight bodies, two of them decapitated, in the northwestern border city of Tijuana, and 19 others after separate attacks further east in the border state of Chihuahua in the past 24 hours.
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AP - The official death toll from four storms that ravaged Haiti this summer has nearly doubled to some 800 people, authorities said Friday.
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AP - Authorities in the Dominican Republic have issued an arrest warrant for New York Mets pitcher Ambiorix Burgos after a crash involving his SUV that killed two women.
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