Despite the Governor of Puerto Rico signing an executive order to legalize medical marijuana this past Sunday, smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes will not be allowed in the U.S. territory.
Residents of Mexico City and the surrounding state of Mexico on Tuesday celebrated Cinco de Mayo with re-enactments of the 1862 Battle of Puebla - the origin of the holiday that celebrates Mexican culture.
Marllory Chacon Rossell, a Guatemalan woman who was in charge of one of the most widely spread drug trafficking and money laundering rings in Central America has been sentenced in secret in the United States.
"Homeland" fans who are anxiously waiting the Showtime hit series' fifth season already know that the new installment will take place two and a half years after the previous season and that its storyline is set in Berlin.
This coming weekend Cuban gay activists, along with Mariela Castro, will hold a symbolic mass wedding this weekend as part of Cuba's annual gay pride parade.
UFO researchers have released a video that shows a "cigar-shaped" object above a Mexican volcano. The video was taken Saturday right above the Popocatepetl volcano.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy has stated that the amount of land under coca cultivation in Colombia jumped 39 percent in 2014 to about 276,000 acres, despite decline in recent years.
A first edition of Garcia Marquez's masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has been stolen, prompting Colombian police to search for the valuable book.
Actor said he doubts the intentions of the government in the upcoming training exercises. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is one person who has called into question a multi-state, eight-week training exercise that involves several branches of the U.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro plans to to nationalize food distribution amid his country's record shortages of basic goods, runaway inflation and escalating economic instability.
May 5 is actually the anniversary of the battle of Puebla, which took place is 1861. In the battle, Mexican liberal forces defeated an occupying French army and its Mexican conservative allies.
The new Jalisco-based cartel killed seven people over the weekend and managed to bring down a helicopter. Government forces have increased their efforts to quell the rising drug cartel.
After spending almost 17 years by his side, 66-year-old Juan Reinaldo Sanchez revealed Fidel Castro's alleged "double life" he discovered while serving as the Cuban leader's bodyguard.
Alejandro Garcia Padilla, governor of Puerto Rico, signed an executive order authorizing the use of medical marijuana over the weekend, adding the island territory to the growing list of nations and territories allowing for the drug's medical use.
Analysts have observed that the recent violence in Western Mexico that resulted in seven dead people and a forced down a military helicopter may have all been a way that the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel, used to display its increasing power
Due to a Paraguayan law which bans abortions except in cases where the pregnancy will endanger the life of the mother, a 10-year-old girl who was impregnated by her stepfather will not be allowed to get an abortion.
President Nicolas Maduro has raised Venezuela's minimum wage for the second time this year. He gave housing to a woman who threw a mango at him last week, and now President Nicolas Maduro has further ingratiated himself to the economically burdened people of his country by raising Venezuela's minimum wage for the second time this year.
