AFP – Fourteen people were killed after suspected Mara 18 gang members attacked two buses in El Salvador, police officials said.

AP – Police say gang members have set a bus afire near El Salvador’s capital, killing at least 10 of the people aboard.

AP – Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church says drug cartels now control parts of some cities and warns that the gangs may be trying to influence this year’s state elections.

AP – A meeting between the Vatican’s foreign minister and President Raul Castro sparked hopes Sunday that more of the island’s political prisoners may be released or transferred to jails closer to home.

AP – A local church investigation of pedophelia complaints against a prominent Chilean priest has been delivered to the Vatican for further action.

AP – A man and his 12-year-old daughter were detained Sunday in southern Mexico for allegedly killing a neighboring land owner in a dispute over land.

AP – Renowned Mexican journalist, critic and political activist Carlos Monsivais died Saturday at 72.

Reuters – Gunmen killed the mayor of a Mexican town near the U.S. border that is located in the no-man’s land of the country’s violent drug war, police said on Sunday.

AP – Time was up, not 10 minutes into the visit. The social worker went to pull the 3-year-old orphan out of the arms of the woman he calls “Momma.”

AFP – The Dutch suspect in the May killing of a young woman in Lima was due to appear before a Peruvian judge Monday after he retracted his confession to the crime in a prison cell interview.