Manuel Roig-Franzia
Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 00:00
President Felipe Calder¿n replaced Mexico's interior minister on Wednesday, a move political experts say is designed to build better relations with opponents in Congress
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 00:00
Sergio Gómez, 34, was the latest of a dozen pop musicians to have been killed in the past year in Mexico. Nearly every one of the slayings bore the hallmarks of the drug cartel hitmen
Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 00:00
The funding imbalance in the Bush administration's new anti-drug plan, which would send 10 times as much aid to Mexico as to all seven Central American nations combined, is generating anxiety in Central America
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 00:00
Long before the devastating flooding this month in the state of Tabasco, Mexico's behemoth state-run oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, was pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into local government coffers for flood abatement projects.
Sunday, November 18, 2007 - 00:00
The Bush administration's proposed counternarcotics aid package for Mexico would set in motion a vast reengineering of the country's justice system, revamping the legal education process, creating a network of court clerks and helping to write new laws
Thursday, November 15, 2007 - 00:00
Mexican President Felipe Calderon took the unusual step Wednesday of injecting himself into U.S. presidential politics, calling Mexican migrants "thematic hostages" of the race
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 - 00:00
Roofs rot underwater, stretched out by the thousands over miles and miles. But it is the roofs jutting just above the brown, stinking floodwaters that truly make the heart ache.
Monday, November 5, 2007 - 00:00
Alvaro Colom, who struggled with internal defections and disappointing poll numbers in the final stages of Guatemala's presidential campaign, won a startling victory Sunday.
Friday, November 2, 2007 - 00:00
Mexico's navy announced the largest cocaine seizure in this country's history Thursday, saying investigators have discovered 23.5 tons of cocaine, with a street value of more than $400 million, at the Pacific coast port of Manzanillo.
Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 00:00
Mexican human rights experts say Radilla's case is likely to be the first from Mexico's "dirty war" to go before an international human rights court