Latin America

The Mexican government has announced that infamous drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been extradited to the US to face charges of drug trafficking.

Mexican authorities have started the extradition of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" ("Shorty") Guzman to the United States, local media report.

A small plane has crashed near Rio de Janeiro, carrying a Supreme Federal Court judge who was investigating the ongoing high-profile Operation Carwash corruption scandal in Brazil, sparking worries that nefarious intent may have contributed to the aircraft’s wreckage.

Well-known journalist Igor Abisai Padilla Chavez has been killed in the city of San Pedro Sula in Honduras, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas reports.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday he wants to see respect as the basis of the country's relations with the United States.

The Colombian government has agreed to start peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group next month, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has announced.

It is necessarily for Venezuela to elect a new parliament as the current convocation of the legislature is attempting to stage a coup, President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro intends to continue dialogue with parliamentary opposition and hopes for a positive outcome of the talks.

At least 13 people were killed and over 30 injured in bus accident in Bolivia, Ramiro Lafuente, head of police of the southern Tarija department said.

At least four people were killed and several others were injured as a result of an armed attack on a prosecution office in Mexico, Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez, governor of the southeastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo, said.

The shooting in the popular Mexican resort town Playa del Carmen, which left at least five people dead and 15 injured, took place as a result of a personal conflict, Carlos Manuel Joaquin Gonzalez, the governor of the Quintana Roo state, said.

Projection of Mexico’s economic growth has been downgraded by 0.6 percent in 2017 because of the uncertainty surrounding future US trade policies under Donald Trump's administration and tighter financial conditions, the chief of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) World Economic Studies said Monday.

Oman has taken 10 former prisoners of the US's notorious Guantanamo Bay facility, its Foreign Ministry announced.

The Dakar 2017 motorbike rally has seen some exciting moments. One of them was when Russian pilot Anastasia Nifontova together with her bike toppled over in the middle of high plains and was unable to lift the heavy bike all by herself. None of the other pilots stopped to help her, except for one “true gentleman.”

A shooting, which took place on Monday during the BPM dance music festival in the popular Mexican resort town Playa del Carmen, resulted in the death of four people and 12 wounded, the BPM said in a statement.

At least five people were killed as a result of a shooting in the popular Mexican resort town Playa del Carmen, Telesur television channel reported Monday.

The armed forces of Venezuela began major “anti-imperialist” military exercises on Friday, aiming to prepare the country to defend itself in case of invasion.

Maduro reaffirmed his readiness to engage in political dialogue with the Venezuelan opposition.

The Obama administration has repealed the 20-year-old “wet foot, dry foot” policy which allowed Cubans arriving in the US without a visa to become permanent residents. Armando Fernández Steinko, a Complutense University professor in Madrid, discussed the move in an interview with Sputnik Mundo.