Americas Program
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 07:21
The United States has dramatically increased arms transfers to Mexico in support of the Mexican government’s ill-fated and counterproductive war on the drug cartels.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 22:05
News reports have come out regarding an armed heist of some 900 kilos of gold from a mine in Sinaloa. An outright robbery of a refinery has been relatively rare.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 00:00
Striking workers have occupied a Grupo Mexico-owned copper mine and vow to resist any company or government attempts to evict them from the premises. Last month, a Mexican federal court blocked legal efforts to uphold a labor contract.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 00:00
To assess the pace of promised change in our part of the world-the Western Hemisphere-the Americas Program staff and our colleagues at the Center for International Policy (CIP) looked at four basic questions regarding progress (or lack thereof) in our are