Law Enforcement
200+ people dead after rooftop collapses at Dominican Republic nightclub
The country's Emergency Center Operations announced Thursday that no one had been pulled out of the rubble alive since Tuesday.
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Crime
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
Human Rights
U.S. condemns Maduro for refusing to grant safe passage to refugees at Argentine embassy in Caracas
State Department officials expressed concern about “continued harassment” of the embassy, which “endangers the safety of the mission and those who may be seeking temporary shelter”
Business
Coffee prices hit record high amid Brazilian drought
Retailers have tried to absorb the spike in costs to keep the market even without it hitting the pocketbooks and wallets of loyal coffee drinkers, but many coffee brands might have to raise prices after the new year
Crime
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
Politics
Venezuelan President-elect Edmundo González selects María Corina Machado as his vice president
Edmundo González explained that his departure from the country to Spain was temporary and that from the first moment he was clear that he would return
Politics
Brazilian President Lula da Silva recovering in intensive care after emergency surgery for intracranial hemorrhage
The head of state was rushed to the city of São Paulo, where he underwent surgery to drain the hematoma detected on his head
Lifestyle
Passenger who said family member was kidnapped tried to divert domestic flight in Mexico to U.S.
Airline personnel said the man told them that one of his family members was kidnapped and that he received death threats instructing him not to travel to Tijuana once the flight took off
Lifestyle
Mexican influencer Fedra Gaxiola murdered outside Tijuana gym
The police officer's car, worth more than two million pesos, remained at the scene with bullet holes
Drug trafficking
Historic seizure: Mexico seizes more than 2,400 pounds of fentanyl
The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection of Mexico said that law enforcement efforts will persist until the violence decreases in Sinaloa, where two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel have been in a vicious turf war for months to control the area
Human Rights
Central American bishops call for a day of prayer amid the Catholic Church’s "challenging" situation in Nicaragua
In a joint message titled “Central American Day of Prayer for the Church in Nicaragua,” the bishops expressed their support for the Nicaraguan people in the face of the persecution inflicted upon them by the communist Ortega-Murillo regime
