The Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 00:00
Military assistance to Honduras may exacerbate its drug problems rather than helping solve them.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 00:00
The soldiers were attacked Monday near Maicao, a border city in northern Guajira state, by 80 to 90 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 00:00
Army officials paraded suspect Daniel de Jesus Elizondo Ramirez before the news media, saying he was one of those assigned by Zeta bosses Heriberto Lazcano and Miguel Angel Trevino Morales to kill the 43 men and six women.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 00:00
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland attempted to explain the role of American forces during a press briefing Thursday. The explanation, however, seems in need of some explaining.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 00:00
The PRI has not cleaned up its act or modernized over the last 12 years. To the contrary, it has deepened its networks of corruption and illegality in the territories it still controls.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 00:00
President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed the bomb attack in brief televised comments, saying it was directed at former Interior Minister Fernando Londono.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
The violence is part of a war of retribution between Sinaloa and the Zetas, Alejandro Hope, a former Mexican intelligence officer, said.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
In one New Mexico town alone, the mayor, police chief and a city trustee were guilty of gun smuggling - and it's probably not an isolated case.
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 00:00
The attack Wednesday night occurred in the rural Tibu area in North Santander province near the Venezuelan border, a zone known to be the center of coca crops and cocaine processing labs.
Friday, May 11, 2012 - 00:00
Peru’s defense and interior ministers resigned Thursday shortly after the Congress opened a debate to consider censuring them for their handling of an antiterror and antinarcotics operation in a valley known for coca cultivation and the presence of the