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As general strike begins, more than 100 have died and hundreds more arrested in anti-government protests since April

Statement prompted criticism online and from US Republicans.

At least half a million American citizens have enrolled in Mexican schools since 2010 amid a wave of deportations and voluntary repatriations

Colombia’s government and rebel commanders hope Farc will become a leftist political party but members fear giving up weapons will make them vulnerable

No arrests have been made so far following the attack on a 16-year-old girl by an estimated 30 men – a crime that set off a wave of outrage in Brazil

Released f-rom prison, Sandra Ávila Beltran gives her first interview in almost a decade and recalls life inside the upper echelons of the Mexican drug world

The role of the prime minister’s spouse has no real formal status in the Canadian system,