Members of the Mexican Army secure an area outside the prison of Ciudad Juarez number 3 in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Jan 2, 2023. (HERIKA MARTINEZ / AFP) MEXICO CITY / CIUDAD JUAREZ – Mexico's defense ministry said on Tuesday it had flown 200 military personnel to the northern border city of Juarez […]
Mexican National Guard stand guard outside a state prison in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Jan 1, 2023. (CHRISTIAN CHAVEZ / AP) MEXICO CITY – An attack on a prison in the Mexican border town of Juarez left 19 dead and allowed a cartel kingpin to escape along with two dozen other prisoners, authorities said Monday. An […]
Relatives of inmates react outside the prison of Ciudad Juarez number 3 after an attack in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, on Jan 1, 2023. (HERIKA MARTINEZ / AFP) MEXICO CITY – Ten guards and four inmates died after an attack on a prison Sunday in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, the Chihuahua state […]
Former Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina leaves the courtroom after being found guilty of a corruption case during his administration, at the judicial building, in Guatemala City, Guatemala Dec 7, 2022. (LUIS ECHEVERRIA / REUTERS) GUATEMALA CITY – A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced both former President Otto Perez and his vice-president, Roxana Baldetti, to […]
This handout satellite image courtesy of Maxar Technologies taken and released on July 30, 2022 shows the Olenivka prison in the Donetsk region of Ukraine where more than 50 people reportedly died following an attack and explosion at the prison the previous day. (SATELLITE IMAGE ©2022 MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – The United […]
Handout photo released by the Ecuadorean Police of a police operation at the Bellavista prison in Santo Domingo de los Colorados, Ecuador, on May 11, 2022. (STAFF / AFP) QUITO – Thirteen prisoners were killed at a prison in the Ecuadorean city of on Monday, Ecuador's prison agency said, the latest incident of deadly jail […]
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over Chauvin's sentencing at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, June 25, 2021. (COURT TV VIA AP / POOL / FILE) Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted last year of murdering George Floyd, was sentenced on Thursday to […]