The Houston Chronicle
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 00:00
Former U.S. Navy Capt. Ray E. Davis was charged last year in the deaths of journalist Charles Horman and student Frank Teruggi, who were killed during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 00:00
The focus now may shift decidedly toward more unconventional warfare strategies developed in countries like Colombia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Friday, September 7, 2012 - 00:00
Guzman's current wife, Emma Coronel, made headlines in the United States and Mexico last year when she gave birth to twins at a Los Angeles area hospital.
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 00:00
Locked in one of Mexico's maximum-security prisons, Laredo-born Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal has something everyone now wants: secrets.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 00:00
Hefty roads running through once-remote ranchlands now enable loaded-down tractor-trailers and pickups to avoid Border Patrol highway checkpoints
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 00:00
By pedaling the prison's stationary bikes, the inmates charge a battery that's used to power 10 street lamps along the town's riverside promenade.
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 00:00
The line between enforcement and abuse is blurred along the Texas-Mexico border, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which alleges people have been subject to invasive and humiliating personal searches, unjustified detentions and coercion.
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 00:00
A U.S. Border Patrol agent searching for a hidden compartment in a tractor-trailer rig headed north from the Texas-Mexico border to Houston found an "access panel" boldly welded with the letters, "C.D.G.," an acronym for the drug-traff
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 00:00
The U.S. military hopes to install a $40 million underwater fiber-optic cable that could improve communications at Guantanamo Bay, a military official said Thursday.
Friday, July 6, 2012 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that he ordered his country's military attaches to leave the Venezuelan Embassy in Paraguay, citing threats against diplomats amid growing tensions between the two governments.