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Honduran Navy officers patrol in Patuca river, near Ahuas, a remote community in La Mosquitia region, Honduras, Monday, May 21, 2012. On Friday May 11, a joint Honduran-U.S. drug raid, on a helicopter mission with advisers from the DEA, appears to have mistakenly targeted civilians in the remote jungle area, killing four riverboat passengers and injuring four others. Later, according to villagers, Honduran police narcotics forces and men speaking English spent hours searching the small town of Ahuas for a suspected drug trafficker.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Hunt for trafficker terrorizes Honduran villagers

A fearsome rattle of gunfire from the sky. The roar of helicopters descending on a tiny, Honduran town. And the sound of commandos speaking in English as they battered down doors and detained locals in the hunt for a drug trafficker. Villagers say the drug bust that left four passengers ...

Legion's latest admission revives hypocrisy charge

The Legion of Christ religious order, already discredited for concealing the crimes of its pedophile founder, suffered another blow to its credibility Tuesday after its superior admitted he knew in 2005 that his most prominent priest had fathered a child, yet allowed him to keep teaching and preaching about morality. ...

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2011 file photo, daughter of Cuba’s President Raul Castro, Mariela Castro, and Nicaragua’s late political writer Tomas Borge, attend a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the National Center for Sex Education, CENESEX, in Havana, Cuba. On the eve of her controversial arrival in the United States to attend a conference on Latin America Thursday, May 24, 2012, prominent academics say the 49-year-old Cuban first daughter has carved out an important name for herself that goes beyond her family lineage or famous last name, making gay rights her life's cause. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

Cuba's first daughter has gone beyond Castro name

She has her uncle's penchant for speaking her mind. From her father, she inherited a disciplined tenacity. But Mariela Castro, a married mother of three and member of Cuba's most powerful family, has paved her own way in making gay rights her life's cause. And now the 49-year-old daughter of ...

Reverberations from drug raid felt in US, Honduras

Bullets flew as U.S. helicopters swooped toward a river boat. Honduran national police rappelled to the ground and locals scattered after loading close to 1,000 pounds of cocaine. Now reverberations from a drug raid that locals say killed four innocent people are being felt from the sultry jungles of Central ...

Mexican brothers, from left, Luis Alfonso Gonzalez Villarreal, Simon Gonzalez Villarreal and Jose Regino Gonzalez Villarreal leave a courthouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The Kuala Lumpur High Court convicted the three brothers of drug trafficking and sentenced them to death by hanging. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Malaysia sentences 3 Mexicans to death over drugs

A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced to death three Mexican brothers and two other people for drug trafficking, rejecting the defense argument that evidence was tampered with. The Mexicans are from Sinaloa state, the cradle of their country's drug trade, but have no criminal record at home. They were arrested ...

FILE.- In this Oct. 1995 file photo, Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes poses for a photograph near Union Square in New York City ( NY). Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language. Fuentes died in Mexico City Tuesday at the age of 83.(AP Photo/Rick Maiman, File )

Appreciating Mexican author Carlos Fuentes

Whatever they may have thought of his politics, anyone lucky enough to have conversed with author Carlos Fuentes couldn't help but be taken by his patrician good looks and his love affair with language. I was struck by this the first time I met Fuentes at his Mexico City home ...

FILE - Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes greets the audience during a conference of Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa in Mexico City, Thursday, March 3, 2011.In this Thursday, March 3, 2011.file photo, Mexican author Carlos Fuentes greets the audience during a conference of Peru's Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa in Mexico City. Fuentes, Mexico's most celebrated novelist and among Latin America's most prominent authors, died on May 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Mexican novelist, essayist Carlos Fuentes dies

Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America's novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83. Fuentes died at the Angeles del Pedregal hospital where he was taken after his personal doctor, Arturo ...

Reaction to death of Mexican author Carlos Fuentes

Some reaction to the death of Mexican author Carlos Fuentes: ___ "With his parting disappears a writer whose work and whose presence has left a profound mark. His short-stories, novels and essays were primarily inspired by Mexico's problems and history but he was a universal man." — Peruvian writer Mario ...

Federal police on vehicles escort the three forensic trucks where bodies were placed after dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in the town of San Juan near the city of Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

Mexico cartel war latest toll: 49 headless bodies

Authorities struggled Monday to identify 49 bodies without heads, hands or feet to gain clues into the latest in a series of massacres from an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels, with increasing evidence that innocents are being pulled into the bloodbath along with gang rivals. More than ...

Federal police on a vehicle guard one of the three forensic trucks where several bodies were placed after dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, were found on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border found in the town of San Juan near the city of Monterrey, Mexico, Sunday, May 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Christian Palma)

49 headless bodies dumped on north Mexico highway

Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels. Local and federal authorities discovered the bodies before ...

In this April 10, 2012 photo, Genove Valcimon, 70, poses for a picture as he works on a road being built through the mountains to lead to an exploratory drill site in the department of Trou Du Nord, Haiti. Haiti's land may yet hold the solution to centuries of poverty: there is gold hidden in its hills, and silver and copper too. Now, two mining companies are drilling around the clock to determine how to get those metals out, and how much it might cost. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

Gold! Haiti hopes ore find will spur mining boom

Its capital is blighted with earthquake rubble. Its countryside is shorn of trees, chopped down for fuel. And yet, Haiti's land may hold the key to relieving centuries of poverty, disaster and disease: There is gold hidden in its hills — and silver and copper, too. A flurry of exploratory ...

Erica Castiglia, right, and Yolanda Kozak, kiss outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Argentina's Congress is set to approve on Wednesday the Gender Identity Law, which allows citizens to change their gender in public records, including birth certificates and national identity cards. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina gender rights law: A new world standard

Activists say Argentina now leads the world in transgender rights after giving people the freedom to change their legal and physical gender identity simply because they want to, without having to undergo judicial, psychiatric and medical procedures beforehand. The gender identity law that won congressional approval with a 55-0 Senate ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a cup of tea as he meets with Sonya, 8, not pictured, from the city of Pskov in Moscow's Kremlin on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Sonya undergoes a medical treatment at Federal Scientific Center for Child's Oncology in Moscow. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Government Press Service)

Putin's reason for skipping US summit puzzles

The Kremlin on Thursday explained President Vladimir Putin's surprising decision to skip a planned high-profile visit to the United States next week by saying he needs to finish setting up his new government. Although this may sound like a lame excuse, it could actually be true. Or not. Theories abound ...

Dale Robinson waves his flag for people driving by a rally of the Dallas LGBT Community to applaud President Obama's stance on Gay marriage and in the Oaklawn neighborhood in Dallas, Texas Wednesday, May 9, 2012. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Brad Loper) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET OUT; AP MEMBERS ONLY

Gay marriage a distant dream around the world

China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. Mobs in Senegal have disinterred bodies of men they believe were gays and dragged them through the streets. In Egypt, laws prohibiting "shameless public acts" have been used to imprison gay men. While gay-rights activists hailed President Barack Obama's support for ...

David Peters, right, and Luke Whited, a gay couple who were joined in a civil union in their home state of Illinois, show their rings inside the Bourbon Pub, a gay bar, after being interviewed about President Obama's statement of support of gay marriage, in New Orleans, Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Ending months of equivocation, Obama declared his support for gay marriage, the first U.S. president to do so. His announcement, a day after North Carolina conservatives turned out in force to vote to strengthen the state's gay marriage ban, injects a potentially polarizing issue into the 2012 race for the White House. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Obama gay marriage support seen as world precedent

President Barack Obama's announcement Wednesday that he supports gay marriage boosted the hopes of gay rights groups around the world that other leaders will follow his example, though opponents denounced his switch as a shameless appeal for votes. Several countries, including Canada, Spain and Argentina, allow same-sex marriage, but far ...

In this photo released by Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), presidential candidates Enrique Pena Nieto (Revolutionary Institutional Party, PRI), left, Josefina Vazquez Mota (National Action Party, PAN), second from left, Gabriel Quadri (New Alliance Party, PANAL), third from left, and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (Democratic Revolution Party and Workers Party, PRD,PT), pose for a group photo prior to the start of the first presidential debate in Mexico City, Sunday May 6, 2012. Next July 1, Mexico will hold presidential election. (AP Photo/IFE)

Mexican front-runner fends off debate attacks

The front-runner in Mexico's presidential race fended off rivals' attempts to paint him as a liar with corrupt backers, emerging from the first of two debates with analysts saying his large lead appeared safe. Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate seeking to return Mexico's former ruling party to the nation's highest ...

Police remove from a canal, plastic bags containing the dismembered bodies of four people, in Boca del Rio, Mexico, Thursday, May 3, 2012. The bodies were found dumped together in plastic bags by a canal in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Thursday, less than a week after the killing of a reporter for an investigative newsmagazine. At least three of the slain had worked as news photographers. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Drug war slayings suppressing news in Mexico

Four of reporters and photographers covering the perilous crime beat have been slain in less than a week in violence-torn Veracruz state, where two Mexican drug cartels are warring over control of smuggling routes and targeting sources of independent information. The brutal campaign is bleeding the media and threatens to ...

FILE - In this Friday, April 13, 2012 file photo, Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate for the Democratic Revolution Party, PRD, is backdropped by a painting of Benito Juarez, Mexico's first president of Indian descent and national hero, while speaking at a news conference in Mexico City. For a man whose anger and inflexibility may have cost him his dreams of the presidency, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is surprisingly calm and friendly on the campaign trail. Mexico will hold presidential elections on July 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico's leftist tries to overcome past mistakes

For a man whose anger and inflexibility may have cost him his dreams of the presidency, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is surprisingly calm and friendly on the campaign trail. In his second presidential bid, the white-haired shopkeeper's son beloved by many poor Mexicans rides the subway, waits in ...

Drug war slayings snuffing out news in Mexico

Four of the last reporters and photographers willing to cover crime stories have been slain in less than a week in violence-torn Veracruz state, where two Mexican drug cartels are warring over control of smuggling routes and targeting sources of independent information. The brutal campaign is bleeding the media and ...

Journalists being killed at 'astonishing pace'

On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders condemned the "astonishing pace" at which journalists are being attacked and murdered — 67 killed in 2011 and 22 more deaths since the beginning of the year. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the attacks "outrageous" and urged all countries to prevent and ...