The strands of the Sinaloa drug cartel web

Second of four parts

'Magú' Luján, influential Mexican American artist, dies at 70

Gilbert "Magú" Luján — a painter, muralist and sculptor whose whimsical, slyly humorous art works, frequently evoking a...

Unraveling Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel

First of four parts

Cultural Exchange: The play's the thing in El Salvador

During El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s, this town was at the heart of a perilous battle zone, washed over by government soldiers one...

ATF sought to downplay guns scandal, emails show

Two days after U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was killed in December, the top ATF supervisors in Phoenix said in internal emails...

Ex-mayor of Cancun released as case appears to collapse

Yet another high-profile drug-prosecution case in Mexico careened toward collapse Wednesday when federal officials were forced to release...

Brazil's commodities-heavy trade with China gives some pause

At the height of Brazil's biggest economic boom in a generation, the Schmidt Bros. shoe factory in the southwestern city of Campo Grande was...

Gun-smuggling cartel figures possibly were paid FBI informants

Congressional investigators probing the controversial "Fast and Furious" anti-gun-trafficking operation on the border with Mexico believe at...

Mexico high court rules civilian courts should handle alleged military abuses

In a decision hailed by human rights advocates, the Mexican Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that military officers and personnel be tried...

Salvadoran group dogged in search for children missing years ago in civil war

Her name is Milagro, or it was before her mother's heart broke into a million bits.

U.S. to require more gun-buyer information in border states

As a backlash mounts over the government's failed Fast and Furious gun-tracing operation, the Justice Department will begin requiring...

Acclaimed Afro-Peruvian singer unearths a hidden history

In this village that still bears the name of the old Santa Barbara sugar plantation, Susana Baca is trudging through a field of sweet...

Argentine singer killed in Guatemala ambush

Reporting from San Salvador and Mexico City -- Argentine songwriter and singer Facundo Cabral, an icon of Latin American folk and protest...

At least 20 killed in Mexico bar, officials say

Gunmen targeting a rival drug cartel opened fire in a crowded bar in the northern city of Monterrey, killing at least 20 people and wounding...

Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral killed in Guatemala

Gunmen with rifles shot and killed one of Latin America's most famous folk singers, Facundo Cabral, on Saturday

7 killed in clashes in Michoacan

Federal police in western Mexico were locked in armed clashes Friday with a faction of the drug gang known as La Familia, two weeks after...

Brazil president faces corruption scandals

Two of President Dilma Rousseff's ministers have resigned recently amid accusations of corruption, complicating her efforts to run Latin...

Four men found guilty in 2010 killing of 15 at Mexico teen party

Four men were convicted Thursday in last year's killing of 15 people at a teen party in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Bravery may not be enough to bring justice to Mexico

Marisela Morales arrived as Mexico's first female attorney general with high marks for bravery.

Mexico captures alleged Zetas gang founder 'El Mamito'

Mexican officials on Monday announced the capture of one of the country's most wanted fugitives, an army deserter who authorities say helped...