Strong earthquake rocks El Salvador, Guatemala; no immediate reports of injuries, damage

Quake shakes El Salvador, Guatemala

SAN SALVADOR, EL Salvador — A strong earthquake struck off El Salvador’s Pacific coast Thursday, sending people running from buildings in this Central American nation and in neighboring Guatemala.

Strong earthquake rocks western El Salvador, no immediate reports of injuries, damage

Strong quake shakes El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, EL Salvador — A strong earthquake has rocked El Salvador and parts of Guatemala, but no there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in either country.

Guatemala ends 2-year adoption suspension, establishes reforms to stop theft, sale of babies

Guatemala reopening international adoptions

Danish tourist dies from gunshot wound suffered during robbery try in Guatemala cemetery

Danish man dies from wound in Guatemala mugging

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Guatemala gunmen kill 1 police officer, wound 6 in separate attacks

GUATEMALA CITY — Two separate attacks on police in Guatemala have killed one officer and wounded six more.

Series of attacks on police targets in Guatemala kills 2 officers, wounds 3

GUATEMALA CITY — A series of attacks on police in Guatemala has killed two officers and wounded three.

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Shootings kill 15 in Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez; 6 bodies found in burning car in Tijuana

TIJUANA, Mexico — Firefighters found six bodies inside a burning car in Tijuana, and 15 people were killed in three separate shootings in another northern Mexican border town besieged by drug violence, authorities said Tuesday.

Shootings kill 10 in Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez; 6 bodies found in burning car in Tijuana

TIJUANA, Mexico — Firefighters have found six bodies inside a burning car in Tijuana, and 10 people were killed in two separate shootings in another northern Mexican border town besieged by drug violence.

Guatemala arrests 9, including 5 police, in killing of lawyer who accused president

GUATEMALA CITY — Authorities in Guatemala arrested nine suspects Friday, including five police officers, in the killing of a prominent lawyer who accused President Alvaro Colom of involvement in his death in a posthumously released video.

Guatemala arrests 7, including 5 police, in killing of lawyer who accused president

GUATEMALA CITY — Authorities in Guatemala arrested seven suspects Friday, including five police officers, in the killing of a prominent lawyer who accused President Alvaro Colom of involvement in his death in a posthumously released video.

Guatemalan president declares ’state of public calamity’ to confront food shortages

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared “a state of public calamity” late Tuesday to help mobilize funds and resources to confront a food shortage that will affect thousands of families.

Gunmen kill 4 Guatemalan prison officials in apparent retaliation for prison crackdown

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan police say four prison officials have been shot to death in three separate attacks that authorities believe are retaliation for a jail crackdown.

Guatemalan leader says ousted Honduran president must be returned to office before elections

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said Friday that scheduled elections in neighboring Honduras will not be valid if ousted President Manuel Zelaya is not reinstated before the Nov. 29 vote.

Human rights activists cheer Guatemala’s sentencing in forced disappearances

GUATEMALA CITY — A Guatemalan court has convicted and sentenced a former paramilitary to 150 years in prison for the forced disappearance of six people who were abducted and presumably killed during the country’s civil war — a landmark ruling hailed by human rights activists Tuesday.

Life of Houston doctor ends violently at ranch where he found respite

HOUSTON — On the last morning of his life, Jorge Mario Gonzalez drove to his beloved Four Oaks Farm, a 30-acre ranch tucked away in the bucolic Texas countryside, his pregnant wife and 21-month-old son by his side.

Increasingly a fait accompli, Honduras coup leaves other leftists fearing they could be next

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Manuel Zelaya’s chances of getting restored to the Honduran presidency become more distant with each passing week. Across Latin America, his allies and foes alike see a precedent being set.

Guatemala seeks to keep ex-police officials implicated in drug case from leaving country

GUATEMALA CITY —Prosecutors in Guatemala have requested a restraining order against four former top police officials linked to the disappearance of hundreds of pounds (more than 100 kilograms) of cocaine, in order to keep them from leaving the country.

Guatemala fires 3 top police officials over cocaine allegedly disappeared after bust

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s top three police officials have been fired after hundreds of pounds (more than 100 kilograms) of cocaine allegedly disappeared from a shipment seized by authorities.

ATF worries about Mexican cartel grenades coming into America

PHOENIX — It was a scenario U.S. law enforcement had long feared: A fragmentation grenade from Mexico’s bloody drug war tossed into a public place.

US jury found in favor of hospital that deported seriously brain injured Guatemalan man

MIAMI — A hospital that sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala — over the objections of his family and legal guardian — did not act unreasonably, a jury found Monday.

Fla. jury found in favor of hospital that deported seriously brain injured Guatemalan man

STUART, Fla. — A South Florida hospital that quietly chartered a plane and sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala over the objections of his family and legal guardian did not act unreasonably, a jury found Monday.

Fla. jury begins deliberations in case of Guatemalan man illegally deported by hospital

STUART, Fla. — The case against a South Florida hospital that quietly chartered a plane and sent a seriously brain injured illegal immigrant back to Guatemala over the objections of his family and legal guardian was in the hands of a jury Thursday.

Fla. hospital defends deportation of brain-injured Guatemalan patient without health insurance

STUART, Fla. — All sides agree on one thing in the case of a South Florida hospital that secretly repatriated a seriously brain injured patient back to Guatemala.

AP IMPACT: From Andes to Argentina, Mexican drug cartels expand, operate in 47 countries

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose “Juancho” Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of attackers ambushed his entourage with grenades and assault rifles, killing Leon and 10 others in a brazen demonstration of power.

Ousted Honduran president: People ‘have the right to insurrection’ against interim government

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Tuesday that the Honduran people “have the right to insurrection” against the interim government that forced him out of the country.

Coast Guard cutter based in Alameda, Calif., makes drug bust off coast of Guatemala

ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Coast Guard says a cutter based in Alameda has seized two speedboats, recovered a bale of cocaine and detained four suspected smugglers off the coast of Guatemala.

Court says evidence insufficient to try Guatemalan arrested for tweet

GUATEMALA CITY — An appeals court found insufficient evidence to warrant the trial of a Guatemalan whose Twitter message led to his arrest on charges of inciting financial panic.

Hondurans deeply divided on whether they want ex-president back _ even in his hometown

LEPAGUARE, Honduras — Luis Perez voted for Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in 2005. Now, he wishes he hadn’t.

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