Sunday 20th May, 2012
St. Christopher Parish Makes a Difference in Nicaragua
Updated May 20, 2012 at 6:53 PM EDT TONAWANDA, NY (WKBW-TV) - A parish in Tonawanda is making a big difference in one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere. St. Christopher parish ...
Mexican Judge Holds More Generals in Drug Probe
May 20, 2012 Mexican investigators widened a probe into military corruption in the drug war, holding retired General Ricardo Escorcia and retired Lieutenant Colonel Silvio Hernandez in custody ...
Suspect in Mexican mass beheadings arrested
MEXICO CITY - Mexican soldiers have arrested an alleged perpetrator of the massacre of 49 people whose corpses were decapitated, dismembered and dumped on a highway last week. Daniel Elizondo, ...
San Salvador Prelate Backs Closing of Guantanamo
EWTNSupports Reception of 2 Former Inmates in El SalvadorSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, APRIL 24, 2012 (Zenit.org).- On Sunday the archbishop of San Salvador said he hoped the prison in the United States ...
Lees: Running the rapids in Costa Rica
Edmonton JournalRICA - Blood rushed to my head with the speed and fury of extreme rapids. I was excited.Checking into Borinquen Resort and Spa in Costa Rica recently, I spotted a whitewater rafting brochure.Rafting ...
Mexican martyrs' relics go on display in Texas
EWTNRelics of six canonized priests martyred in Mexico went on display in Houston on Friday, beginning a tour of several U.S. cities."It is our hope that the pilgrimage of these relics will remind ...
Mexico, Cuba Strengthen Co-op in Sports
Prensa Latina0 de mayo de 2012, 09:44 Havana, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and Mexico study ways to improve their relations, said Bernardo de la Garza, director of Mexico's Sports and Athletics Natl. ...
Honduras: Violent repression being backed by US and Canada
Green Left OnlineXiomara Castro de Zelaya. There is no end in sight to violence and repression in Honduras. There is also no end in sight to the United States and Canadian governments and business maintaining ...
Mexican police find 49 headless bodies
Daily NationMexican investigators on Monday searched for perpetrators of a heinous drug-war massacre in which 49 people were killed, decapitated, dismembered and left in plastic bags on the side of a rural ...
Guatemala’s Fuego volcano belches ash, lava
InquirerGUATEMALA CITY - The Fuego volcano in central Guatemala has begun shooting lava and columns of ash into the air, and authorities have raised the alert level in the ...
Volcano in central Guatemala belches ash, lava; authorities raise alert level
Sun-SentinelIn this photo released by The National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology of Guatemala, INSIVUMEH, the Fuego volcano is seen from Yepocapa, south of Guatemala City, ...
Youth protest former Mexican ruling party's rise
West AustralianMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of demonstrators protested in Mexico City on Saturday against opposition presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto, who is far ahead in polls and poised to lead the ...
Mexican Youth March Against Old Ruling Party
ABC NewsThousands of college-age demonstrators marched down Mexico City's main boulevard Saturday to protest a possible return of the old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as the PRI, ...
Honduras - Kidnapped radio journalist Alfredo Villatoro found shot dead
Reporters without BordersVillatoro, programme co-ordinator and presenter at the radio station HRN, was shot twice in the head and his body had been dressed in the uniform of an officer of the police, which is widely ...
El Salvador recognizes Palestinian state
Arabic NewsEl Salvador recognizes Palestinian state Palestine-El Salvador, Politics, 8/26/2011 El Salvador Thursday recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, according to Palestinian ...
Native People of El Salvador Finally Gain Recognition
IPSSAN SALVADOR, May 14, 2012 (IPS) - After decades of struggle, indigenous people in El Salvador will finally be recognised in the ...
Mexico, Guatemala collaborate to strengthen border security
People's DailyMexican President Felipe Calderon (L) and his Guatemalan counterpart Alvaro Colom arrive at a joint press conference at the official residence Los Pinos, in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, on July ...
Guatemala volcano spits lava and ash
ReutersGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala's Fuego volcano belched burning lava and black ash into the sky early Saturday, leading the government to issue an airplane advisory and close sections of ...
Fourth Mexican officer detained
BBCA fourth high-ranking Mexican army officer has been arrested for possible links with a drug trafficking cartel. Mexico's defence department announced that Lt Col Silvio Hernandez Soto had been ...
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