Americas

MEXICO CITY–Mexican authorities said on Sept.19 they had fired the top prosecutor in Jalisco state, the second official to lose his job after the discovery of a container truck holding the bodies of hundreds of victims of the country’s drug war. Authorities are struggling to manage the death toll in the western state, which is […]

The restoration of Brazil’s National Museum, destroyed by a fire on Sept. 2, could take years, experts told journalists on Sept. 18. Jose Luiz Pedersoli who works for the ICCROM, the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property in Brazil, said that based on experiences in other countries, it […]

Tlaquepaque Residents complained about a rotten odor coming from a local warehouse—it was a refrigerated truck with 150 dead bodies. “The odor would come in waves,” Guadalupe Vázquez told CNN. “Something else that was suspicious was that patrol cars were always there guarding and at night dogs would bark and a lot of flies.” In […]

BUENOS AIRES–Argentina’s former president Cristina Fernandez was indicted on Sept. 17 on charges that her administration accepted bribes from construction companies in exchange for public works contracts, according to an indictment released by a federal judge. Argentina’s Justice Department is seeking to determine whether Fernandez headed a broad corruption network that involved politicians and businessmen […]

OTTAWA–Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Sept. 17 said she would return to Washington, D.C. this week for fresh talks on NAFTA as time is running very short to meet a U.S. demand for a deal by October 1. Freeland, speaking after a phone conversation with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, said a date for […]

In China, media is heavily censored and published articles must toe the party line, and fake news pieces are all too common. But Beijing has recently expanded its subversion techniques beyond its borders, with Taiwan and Latin America now under siege by manipulated news that promotes its agenda. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, while stumping for […]

MEXICO CITY—Gunmen with rifles and pistols killed three people on Friday, Sept. 14, and injured at least seven in a tourist plaza in downtown Mexico City, police said, adding that they were chasing three men dressed as mariachi musicians who fled on motorbikes. After years of keeping a lid on the worst violent crime that […]