Crime, immigration top Guatemala debate
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Guatemalan voters saw the top five top candidates in their country's presidential race square off in a historic debate Thursday evening, a contrast to the violence and name-calling that has marred the campaign in recent months.
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Six Republicans and four Democrats sparred over immigration, terrorism and each other's records during a double-feature debate in New Hampshire on Saturday, just three days before the Granite State holds the nation's first primary.
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In Guatemala's worst political violence since the end of its civil war, almost 50 people have been killed in campaigning for this weekend's election, giving an ex-general who promises to crack down on crime a lift in the race for president.
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Four Guatemalan policemen are held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians in Guatemala City.
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As Bush heads to the region, his key allies in Guatemala and El Salvador are reeling from gangland style killings that many believe are related to drug smuggling and corruption
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With Mexico&#039;s presidential election two weeks away, the drug wars are a central issue in the race, and the main candidates are all trying to look tough on the issue, while splitting over whether U.S.-style solutions are needed.
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Jose Padillaâs detention became the centerpiece of a debate over the Bush administrationâs prosecution of terrorism.
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The issue of returning to Libya illegal immigrants who come to Malta from there is one of the more important topics to be discussed between Lawrence Gonzi and the Libyan government during a visit by the Prime ...
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In the Central American leg of his tour, President Bush is likely to face questions about a crackdown on immigrants.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President Alvaro   Uribe's U.S.-backed plan to disband right-wing militias has   been hit by charges he is too easy on paramilitaries and that   drug smugglers are posing as fighters to win short jail terms.
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As heated as the debate over the immigration overhaul is on Capitol Hill, the divisions may run even deeper among immigrants themselves.
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Guatemalan prosecutors are  investigating claims that riot police summarily executed dozens  of peasant squatters in a violent eviction on a ranch this  week, the government said on Wednesday.
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A former general who wants the army to tackle rampant crime will face a center-left businessman in Guatemala's presidential runoff in November after a close first-round vote, results showed on Monday.
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Nine months after he disappeared under a cloud of corruption allegations at home, former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is living and working in the same Mexican city he fled two decades ago to avoid arrest on murder charges, The Associated Press has learned.
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As Bush heads to the region, his key allies in Guatemala and El Salvador are reeling from gangland-style killings that many believe are related to drug smuggling and corruption
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NEWARK -- Since two illegal immigrants were named among the suspects in the execution-style killings of three college students here, Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Tom Tancredo have suggested that the deaths show the consequences of failures in immigration...
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt may face genocide charges related to widespread massacres of Maya Indians at the height of one of Latin America's bloodiest civil wars in the early 1980s.