Assassination

it has been 50 years since JFK was killed and some people still debate the truth about what happened on Nov. 22, 1963.

Ángel Carromero, a young politician with Spain’s conservative Popular Party, says that Cuban state security assassinated Oswaldo Payá, a longtime activist who agitated for freedom of speech and other human rights in Cuba.

New evidence reveals new theory on JFK's assassination as 50th anniversary approaches.

"We've captured two paramilitary groups who were coming to attack our Venezuela, one in Táchira and another in Portuguesa," Maduro wrote on Twitter, adding that a third group was under surveillance in the capital.

Calderón writes for Semana, a magazine which has made waves with coverage on abuses in Colombia's main military prison. The head of the armed forces would not rule out the possibility that the attempt may have been related to this negative press.

Authorities believe the assassination-style murder of law student Brandon Woodard in broad daylight earlier this month was the result of a tremendous, high profile drug deal gone terribly wrong, according to DNAinfo.com.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon was warned during the early years of his administration of a credible threat to assassinate him while he was in the presidential jet, Mexican media reported on Sunday.