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Federal Judge Unseals Indictment In Florida May 21, 2013

On Friday, a federal judge unsealed a three-count indictment returned by a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida charging 59-year-old Jetta McPhee of Tamarac, Florida, for her role in bringing 143 Haitian nationals to the United States on fraudulently obtained guest worker visas that McP...

Read more >> Report on the Drug Problem In The Americas To Be Centre of Discussions at Upcoming OAS General Assembly May 21, 2013

On Monday the secretary general of the Organization of American States, José Miguel Insulza presented the Report on the Drug Problem in the Americas to the members of the OAS Permanent Council, in a special meeting of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission in which he ...

Read more >> Guatemala's Top Court Throws Out Charges Against Former Military Leader May 21, 2013

Guatemala's top court has thrown out the conviction for genocide and crimes against humanity of former military leader Efrain Rios Montt. The constitutional court ruled that the trial should restart from the point where it stood on 19 April. On 10 May, General Rios Montt was convic...