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Los Zetas cartel chief faces up to 700 years in Mexican prison after serving 17 years in U.S.

Osiel Cárdenas Guillén was released from an Idaho based federal prison on Monday and turned over to Mexican law enforcement officials at the border

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Border Patrol: Tren de Aragua member arrested in Palm Beach for assault with a deadly weapon

Researchers have traced the origins of the Aragua Train to the Tocorón prison in the Venezuelan state of Aragua sometime between 2013 and 2015

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Venezuelan opposition denounces the kidnapping of activist and politician Jesús Armas in Caracas

This incident joins a series of similar acts attributed to the regime, which has intensified the persecution of opponents after the July presidential elections

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Colombian teen escapes bus driver 12 years after he allegedly kidnapped and changed her identity

Prosecutors maintain that Carlos Grisales kidnapped the girl when she was 7 years old, in 2012, and took her to a house located in the center of the city of Medellín

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Nicolás Maduro's regime besieges home of María Corina Machado's mother in Caracas

Two patrols of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin) parked in front of the residence of the opposition leader’s mother, Corina Parisca Machado, on two occasions

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United Nations: Every 10 minutes, a female dies at the hands of her partner or family member

In 2023 60% of homicides against women throughout the world, approximately 51,000 killings, were committed by an intimate partner or someone else close to them

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Alert: Cuban doctor kidnapped in Tapachula, Mexico, ransomed for $10,000

ADN spoke with Iván Maceo Silva, a childhood friend of the abducted Cuban doctor and resident in Texas, who explained that the young man was kidnapped on Nov. 5

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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales says his car was fired upon in apparent assassination attempt

Morales has accused his rival, President Luis Arce of orchestrating the assassination attempt, but his government has adamantly denied the charges

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Tren de Aragua criminal gang coordinator arrested in Colombian capital of Bogotá

The criminal gang Tren de Aragua is identified by the Bogotá authorities as one of those responsible for a sharp increase of violence in the city

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Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo sentenced to 20 years for corruption linked to Odebrecht construction

The verdict marks the first high profile Peruvian conviction related to Brazil’s continent wide Operation Car Wash investigation