The Los Angeles Times
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 00:00
The stakes are high as Mexico prepares to kick off the games, the nation's first since 1975. The games will unfold amid a nearly 5-year-old drug war that keeps setting new thresholds for violence.
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 00:00
A group of human-rights activists and journalists says it will attempt to seek charges at the International Criminal Court against President Felipe Calderon, members of his cabinet and Mexico's most-wanted cartel leader for soaring deaths and widespread a
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 00:00
Residents of impoverished Tumaco are tired of living in fear of the Rastrojos drug gang. Thwarted by efforts to reduce coca cultivation, the gang has turned to extortion
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 00:00
The government's new Operation Safe Veracruz appears modeled on previous multi-agency operations that the administration of President Felipe Calderon has undertaken in other regions
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 00:00
What happened to the thousands of boxes of documents U.S. forces seized during Operation Just Cause in Panama in 1989? The surprising answer, the U.S. government recently confirmed, is that the U.S. Army still has them
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 00:00
Boehner promised that the bills would be considered "in tandem" - a gesture designed to appeal to Democrats
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 00:00
Federal police officers are alleged to run a cocaine-trafficking ring through Mexico City's international airport involving Aeromexico flight attendants and private security personnel
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 00:00
cache of assault weapons lost in the ATF's gun-trafficking surveillance operation in Phoenix turned up in El Paso, where it was being stored for shipment to Mexico
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 00:00
An FBI/DEA confidential informant helped smuggle firearms from the ATF's Fast and Furious gun-trafficking surveillance operation to drug cartels in Mexico
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 00:00
In a statement issued late Monday, the federal attorney general's office warned that it would crack down on "any criminal group or organization that acts outside the law and creates violence"