Americas News from WN Network

Thursday, 09 June 2011

U.S. can't justify its drug war spending, reports say

Government reports say the Obama administration is unable to show that billions of dollars spent in the anti-drug efforts in Latin America have made a significant difference....

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Ex-Guatemala top cop arrested in civil-war case Yahoo Daily News

GUATEMALA CITY – Authorities in Guatemala say they have arrested a former national police chief for his alleged involvement in the...

Receivership sought for troubled USVI prison Yahoo Daily News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. Justice Department filed a motion Thursday seeking to take full control of a troubled prison in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The department said in a statement that it had been trying to get the islands' Bureau of Corrections to improve...

Mexico trove of 1,200 Kahlo works all frauds: experts Yahoo Daily News

MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Experts said Thursday that a trove of 1,200 art works displayed at prominent Mexican gallery as the work of famed artist Frida Kahlo are forgeries. The works, owned by the art dealer Carlos Noyola and his wife,...

Bodies found in Mexican city Al Jazeera

Police in the western Mexican city of Morelia have found the bodies of 21 men next to notes identifying them as criminals and warning of more killings to come. The victims, thought to be aged between 20 and 35, were laid out in groups near the five main highway exits to Morelia, the capital of...

Gingrich campaign team resigns over 'differences' The Independent

The phoney war surrounding the race for the Republican presidential nomination seemed on the verge of claiming its first scalp last night, after Newt Gingrich's entire inner circle of advisers decided to resign en masse, citing "differences" over the direction of the campaign. Less than a month...

Baldwin could be winner in Weiner scandal The Independent

Anthony Weiner, the Congressman embroiled in the Twitter sex scandal, yesterday faced mounting pressure from his fellow Democrats to resign, as the lewdest picture yet hit the internet, this one purporting to display his private parts, aroused and unconcealed. At the same time, a new and poignant...

Brazilian court refuses to extradite murderer The Independent

Brazil's highest court has ruled against extraditing Cesare Battisti, a former leftist rebel convicted of murdering four people in Italy in the 1970s, and ordered him freed from custody. The decision angered Rome,...

US jobless aid claims climb The Independent

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefit unexpectedly edged higher last week,...

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