July 1, 2020 Mexico attack at drug rehab center leaves 24 dead Gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said.
July 1, 2020 Cyclone kills 9, causes floods and damage in southern Brazil A cyclone has hit the southern region of Brazil, killing nine people and causing floods.
June 30, 2020 Coronavirus case at Mexico border refugee camp raises alarm An international disaster relief organization reported Tuesday the first confirmed case of COVID-19 among asylum seekers living in a tent encampment at the U.S.-Mexico border.
June 17, 2020 Pablo Escobar’s cartel partner and infamous ‘cocaine cowboy’ released from US prison, deported to Germany A man known as one of the “cocaine cowboys” who helped lead Colombia’s infamous Medellin drug cartel alongside Pablo Escobar has been released from a U.S. prison and deported to Germany.
June 10, 2020 Coronavirus travel restrictions have upended the cocaine trade, report says Travel restrictions currently in place during the coronavirus pandemic have forced a collapse in the price of one of the building blocks of cocaine, a report says, with the coca leaf plunging as much as 73 percent in value in some parts of South America.
May 24, 2020 US cruise ship performer stuck in Barbados amid coronavirus thanks Rep. Nunes for helping bring him home Rep. Devin Nunes on Sunday celebrated the return of a U.S. cruise ship entertainer who'd been stuck at sea for months amid the coronavirus pandemic, as the congressman told "Fox & Friends" that helping him get home was "one of the really only good parts left about this job."
May 21, 2020 Peruvian mayor poses as corpse to avoid arrest for flouting coronavirus lockdown, reports say The mayor of a town in Peru posed as a dead coronavirus victim — by lying in a coffin while wearing a face mask — to avoid being arrested for violating lockdown rules that he should have been helping enforce, according to reports.
May 20, 2020 Canadian woman says she's tested positive for coronavirus 8 times: 'COVID-19 has taken a lot out of me' A Canadian woman who contracted the coronavirus in March has tested positive for the illness for an eighth time.
May 14, 2020 Mexico's cartels hand out coronavirus aid to try boosting support Mexico’s drug cartels are in a war for the hearts and minds of poor Mexicans, providing them with food and supplies as they struggle to survive the economic meltdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
May 12, 2020 5 of the most destructive invasive species in the US Invasive species threaten to lay waste to delicate ecosystems across the United States, with many filling their insatiable appetites with native wildlife as they sit atop the food-chain and breed unchallenged.
