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World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: 18 Bodies Found in Tijuana
data: 01.10.08
The police discovered a dozen partly clothed bodies on Monday, most of which had been bound and tortured, dumped next to an elementary school in Tijuana.
 Colombia’s four-decade war fueled by the drug trade is proving immune to American-financed efforts to stop it.
 The 20-player United States team is gathering in Miami, where it will train at Barry University before boarding a charter flight to Havana on Thursday.
 A deal with a Caribbean school to provide clinical training for students at public hospitals has prompted an outcry.
Baseball players at the Dominican Summer League say some White Sox scouts and officials have stolen thousands of dollars from players’ signing bonuses.
 Appearing healthy but thin in the face, three Americans who were held in the Colombian jungle for more than five years made their first public appearance.
Mexico’s explosion of drug-related violence has caught the attention of the country’s children, filling their heads with images that are hard to shake.
The Mexican military said that it found nearly six tons of cocaine in a makeshift submarine seized this week off the Pacific coast.
 A jury in Miami convicted a Venezuelan businessman of acting as an “unregistered agent” of Venezuela on American soil.
 After more than 18 hours of debate, the Senate rejected export taxes that had inspired months of protests.
A bail hearing for a Pakistani neuroscientist, Aafia Siddiqui, who is accused of trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in Afghanistan, was postponed Monday.
The former leader of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police blamed political interference in the U.S. for the rendition and subsequent torture of Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer.
 The United States ranked among Cuba’s top five trading partners in 2007 for the first time since imposing a trade embargo in 1962.
The only Canadian detainee in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been abused by his interrogators, according to a secret government report obtained by his lawyers.
 Branko Marinkovic, the scion of a cooking oil and cattle ranching empire, is understandably displeased at being associated with Nazis who fled to South America.
 The Venezuelan authorities say six people, including three army intelligence officials and a police officer, have been detained in the killing of a student leader.
Polecamy:
1. The Saturday Profile: Protecting Herself as Much as Her Drug Lord Clients
data: 15.11.08
Silvia Raquenel Villanueva, Mexico’s most prominent “narco abogada,” or lawyer to the drug lords, continues to receive threats, which she deflects with prayer.
2. World Briefing | The Americas: Venezuela: Chávez Sings on New Album
data: 15.11.08
President Hugo Chávez, who has been known to belt out Venezuelan folk songs during his frequent television appearances, has recorded an album.
3. 5 Die in Shootout at Mexican Jail
data: 15.11.08
There has been a wave of killings in Mexican jails over the past few months, as the battles between rival drug cartels carry over to prisons.
4. World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Bomb Ruled Out in Plane Crash
data: 15.11.08
Authorities investigating the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico’s interior minister this week ruled out a bomb, officials said.
5. School on Haitian Hillside Collapses, Killing 30
data: 15.11.08
More children were believed to be buried in the rubble of the concrete building, and the death toll was likely to rise, said a civil defense official at the scene.
6. Getting Tough: Deported in a Coma, Saved Back in U.S.
data: 15.11.08
Antonio Torres’s case illustrates the haphazard way that the health care system handles uninsured immigrants.
7. Death Toll Rises to 92 in School Collapse in Haiti
data: 15.11.08
Officials said 700 children had been enrolled at a ramshackle school, but it was not known how many were inside when it caved in while class was in session.
8. National Briefing | South: Florida: Smuggling Charges Filed in Fatal Voyage
data: 15.11.08
A boat captain from the Dominican Republic has been charged with smuggling illegal immigrants after his vessel ran aground near Miami on Oct. 31, killing six people.
9. World Briefing | The Americas: Mexico: Interior Minister Is Named
data: 15.11.08
President Felipe Calderón appointed Fernando Francisco Gómez Mont, a lawyer and former lawmaker, as the new interior minister.
10. Rescuers, Finding No New Survivors, Will Raze Haiti School
data: 15.11.08
Rescuers at a collapsed school in Haiti were ending the hunt for survivors and will soon demolish the remains of the building, where about 90 people were killed.
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