Three more weapons used in Operation Fast and Furious have been recovered at crime scenes in Mexico, Fox News confirms. first reported earlier this week that the guns had been tracked down. According to Justice Department documents, all three are described as WASR-10.762-caliber Romanian rifles and all three were traced to a gun shop in Glendale, Arizona. The exact locations where the guns were recovered, and what crimes the guns may have been used in, was not immediately clear. The...

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced on Friday that he was to request an enabling law next Tuesday to the National Assembly to establish "strict rules that work as pedagogic and punitive rules" against corruption. Maduro also remarked that new laws should also be drafted in order to permit funding of the political activity of both people and political parties. It would be "a public funding system of the democratic and political activities of the citizens, and...

The Mexican state of Michoacán was the scene Tuesday of the worst violence to have taken place in a single day in recent months. Authorities said that at least 22 people were killed in different gun battles between police and organized crime gangs throughout the state. Mexico’s National Security Commission reported six attacks against federal police by gang members in different locations. Among the dead are two members of the police force; 15 other officers were seriously...

Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to do everything possible to shed light on the murder of Alberto López Bello, a newspaper reporter whose body was found alongside that of a policeman yesterday in Trinidad de Viguera, a town near the southern city of Oaxaca. Both had been shot dead. The two were last seen alive earlier yesterday in a downtown Oaxaca bar. No message was left by their killers. Aged 28, López had been covering crime for the past six years for El...

The AMIA authorities and victims’ families marked this morning the 19th anniversary of a deep-rooted wound among all Argentineans: the bombing of the Jewish community center that claimed the lives of 85 people and left 300 seriously injured. President CFK, absent. Criticism to the MoU signed with Iran stirred up. As every year, a siren sounded loud at 9.53 with victims’ families bringing back the beginning of one of the saddest chapters in Argentina’s history. AMIA head...

PANAMA CITY - Panama's president said the country has seized a North Korean-flagged ship carrying what appeared to be ballistic missiles and other arms that had set sail from Cuba on its way to the Pacific. Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli told RPC radio on Monday that the ship had been headed for North Korea. There were no immediate details on the quantity of arms aboard. Martinelli said the undeclared military cargo appeared to include missiles and non-conventional arms and the...

House Republicans this week accused Argentina of trying to block their investigation into suspected Iranian ties to terrorism in the Western Hemisphere by refusing to let an Argentinian prosecutor testify on the matter Tuesday. Lawmakers had invited the testimony from Alberto Nisman, the special prosecutor in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, in hopes that it would refute the report by the State Department that asserted Iran’s influence in the hemisphere is...

Reporters Without Borders supports a proposed broadcast media law, known as the or Ley de Medios, which Uruguay’s Chamber of Deputies began considering on 22 May and which is due to be submitted to the Senate by the end of the year. The media freedom organization therefore regrets the pressure that some media groups have recently been exercising in an attempt to delay or block adoption of this bill, which could weaken their dominant position. The provisions and goals of Uruguay’s...

Unknown individuals threw a Molotov cocktail at the house of the candidate for city council from the Contract for Baja California Coalition, Leticia Castañada, however it did not explode and there were no major consequences. The events occurred at 6AM today at her home in Mariano Matamoros, in District 13, where mayoral candidate, Jorge Astiazarán Orcí, went to attend to the matters. Leticia Castañeda was for years a militant in the National Action Party, and...

An Argentine special prosecutor's accusation that Iran has established terrorist networks throughout Latin America has renewed debate over how big a threat that poses to the region and the United States. Alberto Nisman, who is investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people, said in a 500-page report released last week that Iran has been building the networks for nearly 30 years. That assessment coincides with a viewpoint held by many Western...