Manuel Roig-Franzia
Monday, June 16, 2008 - 00:00
Daylight gun battles, beheadings and kidnappings have scared away tourists, forced layoffs and turned some areas of once-vibrant Mexican border cities into virtual ghost towns
Monday, April 14, 2008 - 00:00
Military Campaign Draws Accusations Of Rights Abuses
Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 00:00
Mexican authorities announced Friday that a total of 33 bodies had been found in graves at a drug cartel safe house
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - 00:00
The announcement by Manlio Fabio Beltrones, president of Mexico's Senate and leader of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was a setback for Juan Camilo Mouri¿o, who was named to the country's second-highest post
Monday, February 25, 2008 - 00:00
Cuba's revolutionary old guard consolidated its hold on power Sunday when the National Assembly bypassed a younger generation of politicians
Friday, February 22, 2008 - 00:00
For years, analysts and exiles had predicted that there would be unrest if Castro ever ceded power, but none of that has materialized
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 00:00
His resignation brought a measure of uncertainty to a political system that has changed little since Castro, now 81 and ailing, swept into Cuba's capital at the head of a guerrilla army
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 00:00
If picked by Cuba's newly elected National Assembly in a presidential vote scheduled for Sunday, Raúl is almost certain to preside over a government based more on a collective style of leadership, and less on personality
Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 00:00
In a 128-page report released in Mexico City, the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch concluded that Mexico's commission "is failing to live up to its promise"
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 00:00
Mexico's army announced on Monday the capture of Alfredo Beltr¿n Leyva, thought to be one of the nation's most powerful and violent drug lords