Randal C. Archibold
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 00:00
It was a new stage on Tuesday for Michel Martelly, the former hit-maker who nicknamed himself "president" in song and is now on the verge of serving as the real thing in this devastated country.
Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 00:00
Most of the known cocaine shipments moving north, 84 percent of them, crossed through Central America last year, according to radar tracking data from American authorities - a sharp increase from 44 percent in 2008 and only 23 percent in 2006.
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 00:00
In all, six members of the family have been killed, one of the more glaring examples of the threat that human rights activists like Ms. Reyes Salazar face in Mexico.
Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 00:00
The Justice and Homeland Security Departments announced on Wednesday the creation of a task force to work with Mexican federal authorities to investigate the shooting.
Friday, February 4, 2011 - 00:00
Just over a month after he took charge of the police force in one of the country’s most violent cities, Manuel Farfan, a former brigadier general in the army, died Thursday in a torrent of bullets.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican and American officials, who say the two countries have never worked closer in fighting crime, are facing growing pressure to prove that their strategy is working.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 00:00
Hillary Rodham Clinton came here on Monday to deliver a message of solidarity with President Felipe Calderon and to rebut public doubts about persistent violence.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 00:00
Far from big, infamous cities like Ciudad Juarez, one of the most violent places in the Americas, the war with organized crime can batter small towns just as hard.
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 00:00
It was a day of contrasts for voters in Haiti's first election since the January earthquake - excitement and exasperation, accusations and denials of efforts to rig the results.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 00:00
A spokesman for the United Nations force said the protesters were using the escalating cholera epidemic as an excuse to push the troops out and destabilize the country.