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  • Correction: Honduras-Death Squads story

  • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In a story May 13 about suspects disappearing or dying after being in the custody of the Honduran National Police, The Associated Press misquoted U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Brownfield as suggesting that the Honduran armed forces have engaged in vigilantism. In fact, Brownfield was speaking of the danger of communities carrying out vigilantism.
  • DNA evidence may clear Honduran man sentenced to death in Florida

  • Handout photo of Clemente Aguirre-JarquinBy Barbara Liston SANFORD (Reuters) - Lawyers seeking to overturn the murder conviction of a Honduran man who has been on Florida's death row since 2006 presented new DNA and blood stain evidence in a Florida court on Tuesday. Clemente Aguirre-Jarquin, 33, was convicted in the 2004 murders of his neighbors at a Seminole County trailer park. Cheryl Williams, 47, was stabbed 129 times, and her mother, Carol Bareis, 69, was stabbed twice. ...



  • AP IMPACT: Honduran police accused as death squads

  • In this April 7, 2013 photo, police stand next to the body of a man who was killed during a shootout with police who were carrying out an offensive against gang members in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The officers had surrounded a house where two gangsters had holed up after a chase with police. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police, The Associated Press has determined, feeding accusations that they were victims of federal death squads.



  • AP IMPACT: Honduran criminals missing after arrest

  • In this April 7, 2013 photo, a hooded policeman stands over the body of a man who was killed during a shootout with police who were carrying out an offensive against gang members in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The officers had surrounded the house where two gangsters had holed up after a chase with police. At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the national police, The Associated Press has determined, feeding accusations that they were victims of federal death squads. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — At least five times in the last few months, members of a Honduras street gang were killed or went missing just after run-ins with the U.S.-supported national police, The Associated Press has determined, feeding accusations that they were victims of federal death squads.



  • Cuba launches challenge to Australian tobacco laws at WTO

  • GENEVA (Reuters) - Cuba has launched a legal challenge to Australia's tobacco packaging laws at the World Trade Organization, the Geneva-based trade body said in a statement on Monday. Cuba has never before launched WTO litigation. Its challenge follows similar complaints about Australia's tough tobacco packaging rules by Ukraine, Honduras and Dominican Republic. By taking the first step in a dispute, Cuba has triggered a 60-day window for Australia to try to resolve the problem in talks with Cuba. After that Cuba could ask the WTO to appoint a panel of adjudicators to judge its complaint. ...
  • Burmese refugees flock to Iowa meatpacking town

  • Ngun Za Bik, left, helps a customer at the front counter of his Grace Chin Store in Columbus Junction, Iowa on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Tyson Food's decision to recruit Burmese refugees marks a new chapter in this southeast Iowa meatpacking town which had previously brought in Mexicans, Hondurans and El Salvadorans. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa (AP) — The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked on his progress.



  • Mexico detains 108 in immigration sweep; most from Central America

  • MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities said on Saturday they detained 108 undocumented immigrants along highways, at bus stations and on a cargo train route that thousands of Central Americans use every year to cross Mexico and enter the United States illegally. Ninety five Central Americans, mostly from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, were detained in the southern states of Oaxaca and Tabasco during sweeps by federal police in the last 24 hours, Mexico's migration institute said in a statement. Seven of the Central Americans were children, the institute said. ...
  • Honduran police resign over purge

  • Two senior Honduran officials tasked with purging the police of corrupt officers have resigned after congress said they had made no progress.
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