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Members of the National Guard patrol during an operation in one of the conflictive suburbs in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco State, Mexico, on August 29, 2023. Bloody handprints on a wall offer a clue to the barbarity that unfolded in a house where five young Mexican men were tortured and presumably murdered by drug cartel hitmen. The childhood friends aged 19-22 who vanished in the western state of Jalisco have joined the more than 111,000 people missing across the violence-wracked country, leaving their families fearing the worst. (Photo by ULISES RUIZ / AFP) (Photo by ULISES RUIZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Police raid on a house in western Mexico uncovers workshop for drone-carried bombs

Authorities in western Mexico say they found a workshop for making drone-carried bombs in a house built to look like a castle.

Oct. 4, 2023

Colombia's Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez, center, stands with the relatives of 19 young people who were falsely presented as guerrillas killed in combat by the Colombian army during the country's internal conflict, during an act of recognition and public apology by the state for their extrajudicial execution, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia issues long-awaited apology for 19 extrajudicial killings during civil war

Oct. 4, 2023

Mexican soldiers guard a group of young men rounded up after the night that came to be known as the "Tlatelolco massacre"

Remembering the Tlatelolco massacre, and the questions that remain

Oct. 2, 2023

El presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro, a la derecha, levanta el pulgar mientras se une al presidente de Bolivia, Luis Arce.

Opinion: Struggles between Gustavo Petro and Colombia’s media stir Latin American populism

Sept. 14, 2023

Eagle Pass, Texas, Saturday, September 23, 2023 - People who crossed the US/Mexico border are led, single file, to a border patrol processing center along the banks of the Rio Grande. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Razor wire and soldiers fail to deter migrants: ‘They say it’s easier to get in with kids’

Oct. 2, 2023

Mexico church roof collapse kills at least 11 people. No others believed buried in rubble

Oct. 2, 2023

Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights

Sept. 28, 2023

Luis Alfaro’s post-pandemic play ‘The Travelers’ takes aim at the souls of saints and sinners

Sept. 28, 2023

At least 6 people dead, 12 missing after landslide in Guatemala sweeps homes into river

Sept. 25, 2023

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