The Los Angeles Times
Friday, June 8, 2012 - 00:00
The analysts said Sunday's televised debate, the second and probably last with all four candidates, could place new focus on leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is now second in most polls.
Monday, June 4, 2012 - 00:00
In Mexico, at least 1,500 Sinaloa families in the Sierra Madre highlands have fled fighting between the Zetas gang and the Sinaloa drug cartel in the last month
Friday, June 1, 2012 - 00:00
In a forum Thursday on Capitol Hill, Arturo Sarukhan complained that his government had been left in the dark about operations to stop gun smuggling at the border.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 00:00
The once-grand El Hotel Centenario is now the decrepit El Hotel del Migrante Deportado — the Hotel of the Deported Migrant. It hosts a procession of lost souls.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 00:00
After months of heated discussion, President Dilma Rousseff on Monday presented a final version of the bill that was heavily influenced by the country's powerful agricultural lobby.
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 00:00
Thousands of university students have poured into the streets of Mexico City for the second time in a week to protest the way the nation's upcoming presidential election is being run and, more specifically, covered in the Mexican media.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 00:00
Venezuela's state-owned oil company PDVSA may lose up to 50,000 barrels daily to smugglers.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 00:00
The area around Recife, the capital of Pernambuco, has benefited from huge government and business investments such as the expansion of the port of Suape, a new shipyard and an oil refinery project.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 00:00
Tomas Yarrington, a former governor of the border state of Tamaulipas from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, has been accused in U.S. federal court papers of receiving millions of dollars from drug gangs.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 00:00
Sgt. Jose Libardo Forero, who was freed by FARC rebels in April, says Josefo, a little wild pig he kept as a pet, helped keep him sane during his jungle ordeal.