Mexican Police Raid Town Where Colleagues Lynched
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Mexican police raided a town late on Wednesday and arrested alleged members of an angry mob that lynched two undercover officers a day earlier.
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Rio shanty  town residents say innocent people were among the 19 killed by Brazilian police during a raid on drug gangs.
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Japanese police raid offices of the former Aum cult, a day after its ex-leader's death sentence was confirmed.
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MEXICO CITY, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- A bloody riot Wednesday in the La Esperanza Jail, in Mariona, in the outskirts of San Salvador, left a toll of at least 20 dead and another 30 injured.
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Heavily armed Mexican police, backed by helicopters, locked down the capital's most notorious neighborhood on Tuesday as part of the latest offensive against rampant drug trafficking.
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Gunmen shot and killed three Tijuana police officers in a night of bloody violence just south of the border with California, Mexican officials said Tuesday.
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Four imprisoned Guatemalan policemen were killed Sunday during a riot by inmates, days after the officers were arrested in connection with the deaths of three Salvadoran politicians, police said. The warden and other prison officials were being held hostage.
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OAXACA CITY, Mexico  - Riot police firing tear gas clashed with protesters launching fireworks and throwing Molotov cocktails on Saturday in the strife-torn city of Oaxaca.
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Mexico's new government announced Monday that it was sending more than 6,500 soldiers, marines and federal police to the western state of Michoacan to crack down on a wave of execution-style killings and beheadings that have left hundreds dead.
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Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City on Tuesday, attacking riot police with concrete blocks, metal bars and firecrackers and tearing down barricades to protest the visit of President Bush.
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An amateur video released Tuesday shows that Mexico City police were present late last month before a street mob beat three plainclothes federal agents and set two of them on fire, killing both men.
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Police fired tear gas at dozens of protesters hurling gasoline bombs, rocks and powerful fireworks near the main square of this southern Mexican city troubled by months of unrest.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Gunmen disguised as soldiers killed seven people at two police stations in the troubled Mexican resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, despite a military crackdown against violent drug gangs.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Mexican troops and police fought a fierce battle with suspected drug hitmen armed with grenades in a town near the U.S. border on Monday, and one police officer was killed, witnesses and Mexican media said.
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TEGUCIGALPA  - Honduran police investigated a massacre that left 28 people dead after their bus was strafed by gunfire in what officials suspect was a chilling message from gangs to President Ricardo Maduro and crime-busting politicians.
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Four Guatemalan policemen are held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians in Guatemala City.
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Suspected drug gangsters kill nine people, including policemen, near the Mexican resort of Cancun, police say.