The Dallas Morning News
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 00:00
Mexico's point man in the drug war resigned Monday in a Cabinet shakeup that raised questions on whether the government's strategy to crack down on brutal gangs will change course.
Friday, September 4, 2009 - 00:00
Neighbors mopped blood from the sidewalk outside a drug rehabilitation center Thursday, cleaning up the carnage after gunmen lined up patients against a wall and then riddled them with bullets, killing 18
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 00:00
Mexican border states, where law enforcement is often most vulnerable and resources to test, train and equip police forces are limited
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 00:00
President Barack Obama on Monday reiterated U.S. support in helping Mexico fight drug-trafficking cartels and set a timeline of the end of this year for the administration to begin pushing for an immigration overhaul
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 00:00
What do NAFTA, swine flu and drug wars have in common? Almost nothing, which is why it struck us as odd that Monday's U.S. - Mexico - Canada summit meeting focused on issues largely unrelated to the North American Free Trade Agreement
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 00:00
An investigation that included dozens of interviews with officials and experts in seven countries found that the Mexican mobs increasingly buy directly from the cocaine-producing Andes and have begun using distant countries to obtain the raw material for
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez remains an exception, but even he and Cuba's communist leadership appear to be monitoring Obama for signs of a thaw
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 00:00
The two presidents said their four years in office together will be marked by a new era of cooperation not just on the drug crackdown but on trade ties and even working together toward better U.S.-Cuba relations and clean energy
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
Obama aides have sought to temper expectations, suggesting that goodwill and good intentions are more likely than breakthroughs
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 00:00
Failed states do not have functioning executive, legislative and judicial branches. They do not boast the world's 12th-largest economy