For about $40 a week, teenagers and young men watched roads in the Valley of Juarez looking out for police, the Mexican army or unfamiliar vehicles from a rival drug cartel.

Mexican authorities arrested 10 members of a drug cell in the Valley of Juarez working for the cartel of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, officials said Wednesday.

Roughly 20,000 U.S. troops will be supporting relief efforts in Haiti by Jan. 24, military officials said, adding to the 13,000-strong American force currently there.

With more than 1,400 planes still waiting to bring aid to Haiti, the commander of U.S. forces in the region said Thursday that officials have opened a third alternate airport to hasten the movement of relief supplies for earthquake victims.

SAN ISIDRO, Costa Rica a ' Breakfast at Monte Azul, a small ecolodge outside San Isidro, comes with a show: monkeys.

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On my first day at work in Peru, my boss remarked on my mode of transportation: "Be careful, kiddo.

Chihuahua state authorities identified two teenage girls who were murdered and set on fire last week in the Juarez region as Maria Concepcion Guardado Flores, 15, and Maria Guadalupe Guardado Flores, 14.

Parishoners at Our Lady of Guadalupe, have spent the past few weeks getting together to pray for an end to the drought.

Witnesses said a Las Cruces family visiting relatives in the Mexican village of San Isidro was shot at Friday afternoon, according to a report Saturday in the Juarez newspaper El Diaro.

Starr County firefighters kept a fire that burned in the northwest corner of this city Monday afternoon from damaging any occupied homes.