1. Mexico deployed 200 more military members to Sinaloa state this weekend over fears of mounting violence from the Sinaloa Cartel.
The arrests last week of the two men considered the cartel's current leaders, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Joaquín "El Güero" Guzmán López (son of El Chapo), has heightened the prospects of a bloody fight for leadership.
2. Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora has been in prison for two years as of yesterday, despite international and local organizations' claims that the charges against him are trumped up.
Zamora was the publisher of the defunct newspaper elPeriódico, which frequently published stories about the previous government's corruption.
He was accused of money laundering by the attorney general's office, led by Consuelo Porras, who's been accused of corruption.
