Nick Miroff
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 00:00
Because while Gonzalez is back in Cuba now, he can't stay. Over the objections of the Obama administration, US federal Judge Joan Lenard granted him a two-week furlough to visit his dying brother, who is suffering from lung cancer.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 00:00
If Pope Benedict XVI is going to leave a lasting impression on this island - as his predecessor John Paul II did in 1998 - today will be his final opportunity.
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 00:00
The new Mexican is the overscheduled soccer dad shopping for a barbecue grill inside a Home Depot in booming Mexican cities like Queretaro.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 00:00
It appears the officers were sent on a dangerous mission in a vehicle whose basic protections were disastrously flawed.
Monday, January 2, 2012 - 00:00
Costa Rica is still Central America's least violent country, but the homicide rate here has nearly doubled since 2004, and record amounts of drugs have been seized as the government, with U.S. assistance, embarks on an unprecedented expansion of its secur
Monday, January 2, 2012 - 00:00
Border Patrol officials say their current plans are to construct just one more mile of fence, in Texas. But as illegal immigration takes an increasingly central role in Republican campaign debates, several GOP candidates have renewed calls to fence the en
Monday, January 2, 2012 - 00:00
Honduras's grim tally reached 6,239 killings in 2010, compared with 2,417 in 2005, and researchers say the count will be even higher this year. The largest number of homicides occurred here around San Pedro Sula, a once-booming manufacturing center that i
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 00:00
Chinchilla says that Costa Rica's view of itself as a peaceful, law-abiding country in a poor, violent region is now being put to the test by a threat far greater than even the conflicts of the Cold War era
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
The Border Patrol apprehended 327,577 illegal crossers along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, numbers not seen since Richard Nixon was president
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman is the boss of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel and the drug war's most-wanted man. U.S. and Mexican officials say he's hiding in the Sierra Madre mountains of northwest Mexico