Two social network users, Gilberto Martínez Vera, 35, and María de Jesús Bravo Pagola, 34, have been detained in Xalapa, in the eastern state of Veracruz, since 25 August on charges of terrorism and sabotage for posting messages on Twitter and Facebook about the possibility of an organized crime attack on a Veracruz school. They are facing the possibility of a sentence of 3 to 30 years in prison, a fine equivalent to 750 days of their salaries and suspension of their...

Mexican authorities say two female journalists were found murdered south of Mexico City Thursday. They say the women's bodies were found in a park in Iztapalapa, south of the capital. One victim is Ana Maria Marcela Yarce Viveros, founder of investigative magazine Contralinea. The second, is Rocio Gonzalez, who used to work for broadcaster Televisa. Reuters news agency says a Contralinea spokesman says both women were naked with their hands and feet tied. Authorities believe...

Hezbollah has established a center of operations in Cuba in order to expand its terrorist activity and facilitate an attack on an Israeli target in South America, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported. According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the attack is meant to avenge the death of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah. The organization alleges that Israel was behind his 2008 assassination. According to the report, three Hezbollah members have already arrived in Cuba with the purpose of...

In a press release, Human Rights Watch Director for the Americas Miguel Vivanco termed as "completely unacceptable" Venezuelan authorities' hostility towards Humberto Prado, the director of Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons (VOP), and other activists. Vivanco recalled that Prado was accused by Venezuelan Minister of Interior and Justice Tareck El Aissami of inciting inmates from prisons El Rodeo I and II, east Caracas, to rebellion. Soon later, Prado began receiving death...

050451 From left to right: Carlos Carrazco Espinoza y Javier Alonso Martínez. Jonathan Jahir Reyna, Juan Ángel Leal, Julio Tadeo Berrones. Mexican authorities have arrested five alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel for their role in a deadly attack on a Monterrey casino. Some 52 patrons of the Casino Royale were killed when gunmen stormed the building and used gasoline to light on fire on Thursday. Nuevo Leon Governor Rodrigo Medina held a press conference early Monday...

Caracas Ninth Trial Control Court, presided over by Judge Denisse Bocanegra, resolved to reverse a decision to ban the publication and distribution of Venezuelan weekly newspaper 6to Poder, attorney Pedro Aranguren reported. "Journalists and people who respect freedom of expression in Venezuela are pleased to learn that the Caracas Ninth Trial Control Court Judge just notified the reversal of the order to close 6to Poder," said the attorney of the weekly newspaper. Aranguren...

(CNN) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon condemned Friday the torching of a Monterrey casino that killed at least 52 people as "the most serious attack on civil society that the country has seen in a long time." Calderon said the burning of the Monterrey Casino Royale on Thursday was perpetrated by "terrorists" motivated by greed. Meanwhile, authorities in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, of which Monterrey is the capital, released a video showing how armed men...

CULIACAN, Mexico - Mexican authorities say the body of an online newspaper journalist has been found a day after he was kidnapped. Sinaloa state assistant prosecutor Martin Robles says the body of 53-year-old Humberto Millan Salazar was found in a farm building outside the city of Culiacan with a gunshot wound in the face. Culiacan is the capital of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, where some of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs operate. Millan Salazar was the director of the online...

President Hugo Chávez reported Wednesday that Venezuela's Minister of Planning and Finance Jorge Giordani will travel to Moscow in a few weeks to "fine-tune the details" of a USD 4 billion loan the Russian government will grant to Venezuela to buy weapons. On Wednesday, Chávez received Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Miraflores presidential palace and at the end of the meeting the Venezuelan president answered the questions posed by three...

Russia appears ready to sell Venezuela the same five advanced S-300PMU-1 air defense missile battalions it withheld from Iran because of international sanctions. Debkafile’s military sources report Venezuela’s ruler Hugo Chavez, offered to buy them when he met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow Thursday, Oct. 14. Israel immediately turned to Washington to try and block the transaction. Clearly, the highly-sophisticated interceptors are bound for their original client,...