MEXICO CITY, May 1 (UPI) -- More than 60,000 suspects have been arrested during the last two years in connection with Mexico's ongoing fight against drug trafficking, figures show.

WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The activist group Human Rights Watch says North and South American leaders should use the Summit of the Americas to bring about change in communist Cuba.

WASHINGTON, March 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. treasury secretary pledged changes made to the U.S.-Cuba policy won't have any bite even as a human rights organization hailed the move.

BOGOTA, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- The Colombian government should investigate the killing of 17 indigenous people in the country's southwest, a human rights groups demanded Tuesday.

BOGOTA, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- The alleged slayings of 17 ethnic Awa people by Colombian revolutionaries is a grave human rights violation, advocates said Tuesday.

CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Two staffers from Human Rights Watch were forcibly expelled from Venezuela after they issued a report critical of President Hugo Chavez, the group says.

CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- In a decade as president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez has weakened institutions that protect the country's citizens, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.

MEXICO CITY, July 16 (UPI) -- Human rights activists say the Mexican government is falling short on efforts to address HIV-related human rights abuses.

SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Chile's Supreme Court voted Friday to return former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to Peru where he faces corruption and human rights charges.