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Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's antitrust regulators say they will allow the country's two largest broadcasters to form an alliance in a cellphone service, but only if...
Smuggling is a major economic activity on the border between Peru and Bolivia, with goods transferred including everything from computers, to clothes, food or fuel It is estimated that nearly 100,000 people are involved in the illegal cross-border trading, a...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — It was all caught on video: Five heavily armed policemen barge into a hotel in western Mexico before dawn and march out with three handcuffed men in underwear. But police weren't making an arrest; they were apparently taking orders from a drug gang. Just hours after the three were...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The political thriller begins with a stunning piece of reality: actual footage of a man pressing a revolver against a presidential candidate's right temple and pulling the trigger, an image that marked a watershed year in Mexican history. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow...
Venezuela's president has said the country has begun producing unmanned aerial surveillance drones. Hugo Chavez said the aircraft were being built as part of military co-operation with Iran and other allies. In a televised address from the...
The unidentified man, who is in his 50s checked himself into hospital last Friday after developing symptoms of the disease. According to The Oregonian newspaper the man contracted the disease after...
A Mexican crime reporter has been found dead in the centre of Xalapa, the state capital of Veracruz, hours after being abducted. Victor Baez is believed to have been seized late on Wednesday night. Nine journalists have now been killed in Veracruz over the past 18 months, officials say. Mr...
