Unidentified men on foot threw the grenade from the edge of a square where people had gathered on a warm autumn night in the municipality of Guadalupe, which is part of Monterrey, police said. Four children were among the injured. "There was a loud explosion and people started screaming and running," a witness, who declined to give her name, told local radio. The explosion was the fourth from a grenade during the weekend in Monterrey, one of Latin America's premier business cities....

Local police responding to a call late on Friday that a person had been executed in an industrial sector of Ciudad Juarez discovered a car full of explosives near the body, federal police said in a statement. Specialists removed most of the explosives from the car and then used a controlled explosion to eliminate any other threat, the police said. No one was injured in the operation, police said. Mexican drug gangs often target security forces in their bloody campaign to control smuggling...

Spain's government Monday rejected a ceasefire by Basque fighters ETA as totally inadequate and demanded it renounce guns and bombs forever in its battle for an independent homeland. The government, opposition, and media were united in their deep scepticism over Sunday's video declaration of a ceasefire in the ETA campaign, blamed for the deaths of 829 people over 42 years. Three ETA members in berets and yellow hoods, sitting at a table against the background of ETA's symbol of a snake...

A car packed with at least 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of explosives blew up in an office district of Colombia's capital on Thursday, shattering windows and injuring at least nine people, police said. No deaths were reported. The blast occurred at 5:30 a.m. (1030 GMT) outside a 12-story building housing Caracol Radio, the Spanish news agency EFE and the Ecuadorean consulate, as well as the offices of several politicians and banks. Gen. Cesar Pinzon, the city's police chief, suggested leftist...

At least four people were killed on Thursday, including two policemen, after an explosives-laden car rammed two police vehicles in Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, officials said. The attack occurred after the arrest of Jesus Armando Acosta Guerrero, also known as “El 35,” the alleged leader of the organized crime organization called “La Linea” that coordinates and operates kidnappings, extortion, and drug trafficking, according to federal officials. Thursday’s...

Mexico foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in South America, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Tuesday. Hezbollah operatives employed Mexicans nationals with family ties to Lebanon to set up the network, designed to target Israel and the West, the Al-Seyassah daily said. According to the report, Mexican police mounted a surveillance operation on the group's leader, Jameel Nasr, who traveled frequently to Lebanon to receive information and instructions from Hezbollah...

In a paper entitled "ETA members emigrate to Venezuela," it is said that the Spanish government works to "suffocate" the terrorist group in Latin America. "Therefore, they have deemed it strategic that representatives of the Interior in Caracas need to be experts in ETA terrorism. The Civil Guard has already sent a commander, who acts as attaché, while the Police has yet to appoint a commissioner who will act as counsel. Events such as the return of the...

A group of ten Republican senators want Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to designate Venezuela as a "state sponsor of terrorism." In a letter to Clinton, the senators, led by George LeMieux of Florida and John Ensign of Nevada, expressed the need to elevate Venezuela to the harsher status in the State Department's annual evaluation of the terrorist threats posed by foreign countries. By designating Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism, the State Department would place...

A Colombian newspaper disclosed a report issued by the Colombian intelligence agency according to which training camps are based in the states of Apure, Monagas, and Aragua. They allegedly accommodate members of Basque terrorist group ETA, some Iranian groups, and members of FARC’s Front 59. Members of Basque terrorist group ETA and "some Iranian groups" are allegedly trained by members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in camps located in Venezuela,...

Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade issued the following statement concerning the draft United Nations Security Council resolution. “Achieving consensus on a new round of United Nations sanctions among the permanent five members of the Security Council is a positive step. There are some good provisions in the resolution, including a partial arms embargo and...