Sinaloa Secretary General Feliciano Castro Meléndez speaks during a press conference on Monday, June 30.
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Mexican authorities discover 20 bodies, some decapitated, on Sinaloa highway
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in blue, takes part in a protest against his Supreme Court trial in Sao Paulo on Sunday.
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Brazil ex-leader Bolsonaro rallies thousands of supporters to protest his trial over alleged plot to overturn election
Jose Adolfo Macias known as "Fito," the leader of the Los Choneros criminal group, sits in an armoured personnel carrier after he was recaptured following his escape from a Guayaquil prison in 2024, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on June 26, 2025. Ecuadorean Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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MANTA, ECUADOR - JUNE 25: (EDITOR'S NOTE: This Handout image was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images' editorial policy.) In this Handout image provided by the armed forces of Ecuador, José Adolfo 'Fito' Macías, Head of criminal organization Los Choneros, is recaptured by members of the Ecuador's Armed Forces on June 25, 2025 in Manta, Ecuador. Macias, also known as Fito, who was currently serving a 34-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and homicide related crimes, managed to escape from the Guayaquil regional prison in January 2024 to avoid his transfer to a maximum security section of the facility. Fito's escape sparked an escalation of violence in Ecuador. (Photo by Handout/Getty Images)
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Drug kingpin ‘Fito,’ Ecuador’s most wanted man, has been captured, says Ecuador’s president
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Early warnings went unaddressed for years before one of the deadliest building collapses this century at the Jet Set nightclub, a CNN analysis has found. Stefano Pozzebon has the story.
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Dust billows out of a landslide during an earthquake in Lima on June 15, 2025.
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A mega-prison known as Detention Center Against Terrorism (CECOT) stands in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Little is known about the facilities other than what the government posts on social media in highly produced videos. The government says it could fit up to 40,000 people. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
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Peru is considering sending foreign prisoners to El Salvador
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Colombian president vows to hunt ‘mastermind’ behind shooting of political rival, after teenager arrested
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These are the four Dutch newsmen believed killed in the Chalatenango province north of the capital, San Salvador, published in a San Salvador newspaper March 11, 1982. From left: Jan Cornelius Kuiper, director; Jacobus Andries Koster, producer; Johannes Willemsen, cameraman, and Hans ter Laan, soundman.
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Top Salvadoran ex-military officers sentenced for wartime killing of Dutch journalists
A woman casts a vote during the judicial and magistrate elections in San Bartolome Quialana in Mexico's Oaxaca state on Sunday.
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Mexico’s ruling party expands power in Supreme Court after elections marred by low turnout
A cat-like Nazca Line geoglyph is seen from above in Nazca, Peru, on May 17, 2023.
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Peru’s plan to drastically reduce Nazca Lines park size sparks concerns over environmental and heritage risks
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Fire in a drug rehabilitation center in violence-plagued Mexican state kills 12, authorities say
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Smoke rises from wildfire WE024 which has prompted a pre-evacuation notice in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada May 27, 2025. Manitoba Government/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY
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Canadian province of Manitoba declares a state of emergency over wildfires as thousands flee
‘We are living in a war’: Mexicans brace for violence ahead of judicial elections
Mexico will hold historic judicial elections on Sunday. Some believe it will hurt democracy
He left Venezuela for the US, dreaming of a career in cosmetics. He was deported to a Salvadoran prison