Tim Johnson
Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 06:00
Offshore companies offer nearly impenetrable anonymity for their true owners. It is little surprise, then, that scattered among the harmless-sounding companies registered in places like the Seychelles, the British Virgin Islands and Panama are entities used by drug traffickers, their relatives and their intermediaries.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 06:17
International call centers have become a lifeline for thousands of Salvadorans who’ve been booted from the United States. The call center industry may as well be called Second Chance Inc.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 22:00
President Barack Obama will find himself in perhaps the strongest diplomatic position in years for a U.S. leader when he travels to Panama this week, the result of broad, more intense American engagement in a region that’s long seen itself as neglected.
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 07:32
“This is more refugee-like than immigration,” she said. “Even if kids are reunifying with family members (in the United States), that’s what refugees do, too.”
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 06:46
Border Patrol stations along the 1,950-mile southwest border and shelters are overflowing with the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who have crossed into the United States this year.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 00:00
A policy to shoot down drug-laden aircraft has come into favor and fallen out of favor in the past in Latin America, depending partly on the mood in Washington.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 00:00
Experts predicted that the arrest of the legendary crime boss over the weekend would prove to be a watershed event likely to usher in the breakup of Mexico's huge crime syndicates.
Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 00:00
President Obama met Wednesday with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts but little tangible came out of the Three Amigos summit, a further sign that the world's largest trading bloc is on autopilot, hobbled by spats,
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 00:00
Jorge Sosa Orantes, now 55, was a lieutenant when he led fellow Guatemalan commandos into the Dos Erres jungle hamlet and killed villagers, according to a Justice Department statement.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 00:00
he top three leaders of the Knights Templar gang remain at large, and the armed citizens militia that’s put the gang on the run says it won’t give up its weapons until the leaders are caught