Dudley Althaus

Vigilantes elected US citizen Nestora Salgado their commander. She's one of many women taking up arms against crime in Mexico. Now she’s in jail and critics say her militia’s out of control.

Mexico is counting the cost of tropical storms Manuel and Ingrid. But the reasons they've wrought such devastation are man-made.

The US government spied on Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Mexico's Enrique Peña Nieto, new Edward Snowden leaks allege. Why don't they seem surprised?

“It's clear that if we do nothing with relation to energy in Mexico we run the risk of stalling and not growing," President Peña Nieto said.

Escalating drug wars and military raids of prison push Honduras closer to the edge. Migrants say they must leave to save their lives.

Six in 10 Mexican workers toil in the country’s informal economy. The new president is after the potential income taxes they’re not paying. Wish him luck.

Is Mexico City the oasis from gangland crime folks say it is? Try asking the 12 youngsters kidnapped two months ago in daylight right near the US Embassy and police station.

A UN report says Mexicans are the heaviest on the planet, outweighing Americans even as they battle hunger and malnutrition. How did it come to this?

A surreal atmosphere of cat, dog and donkey candidates, and assassins, clouds Mexico ahead of Sunday's local elections.

After a long silence, Mexican officials are piping up about US Congress' immigration reform plan because, as they see it, border fences don't work and crimp jobs and growth.

Mexico's gangsters make bank extorting local businesses, but they couldn't shake down this doctor. He shot and killed the collectors. Now the gang's gunning for him.

Brazilian officials have put riverbank communities on alert as oil spilled from a broken pipeline upstream in Ecuador flows toward the country's Amazon Basin.

Acting on a citizen's tip, Mexican troops freed 165 migrants being held for ransom by gangsters in a town bordering South Texas, officials said Thursday.

From a desk overlooking the shady plaza of his backwater mountain town, Mayor Rafael Garcia recounts how he and other citizens finally mustered the nerve to take on the gangsters tormenting them.

Mexican mega-mogul Carlos Slim just lost the world's richest man title to Bill Gates. Will President Enrique Peña Nieto's reform agenda whittle down other tycoons?