In September 2011, three WOLA staff members — Senior Associate Adam Isacson, Senior Fellow George Withers, and Program Assistant Joe Bateman — paid a five-day visit to El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Isacson returned to El Paso for three days in October.
We found two cities that, while separated only by a narrow river, are rapidly growing further apart. Ciudad...
Human Rights Violations dominated the news from Mexico this week. A major national drama unfolded after two students in a normal school (teacher training college) were shot and killed by police while participating in a demonstration seeking changes in the school in the southern state of Guerrero. At first,...
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U.S.-supported Ecuadorian troops on a riverine counterdrug patrol. Photo from U.S. Southern Command.
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The U.S. Congress is finishing work on the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which is rightly...
This week, Americas MexicoBlog is pleased to add translated reports from major Mexican news sources.
Drug war news this week had three themes. First, it was revealed by the New York Times that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of the Department of Justice was participating in laundering drug cartel money ostensibly to track cartel systems and find the leaders. Predictably, this raised challenges by...
In just the past week, the armed forces were given, or are on the verge of getting, new internal security roles in four Latin American countries.
In Peru, President Ollanta Humala declared a state of emergency over the weekend in the Cajamarca region, where protests by affected communities have halted the largest mining project in the country’s history. President Humala’s emergency decree “allows the military to help police reopen roads, schools and hospitals shut down...
Drug War news this week brings a three part, in-depth look by the Los Angeles Times at money laundering in the drug war: how it works and efforts by Mexico and the U.S. to stem the billion dollar tide, how U.S. banks have been accomplices and how...