The Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 00:00
At a defense conference, Evo Morales speaks of plots and conspiracies originating in Washington. Defense Secretary Gates shows no noticeable reaction.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 00:00
The extreme violence produced by the drug war is seen as a form of social disfigurement in which Mexican values get more distorted each time a mutilated body is found.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 00:00
An inspector general's review finds that a once-praised federal program is too narrowly focused, fails to share information with law enforcement agencies and does not adequately trace U.S. guns in Mexico.
Monday, November 8, 2010 - 00:00
At least 20 people were killed in drug-gang violence over the weekend in this northern border city, including seven found dead outside one house.
Monday, November 8, 2010 - 00:00
Gunmen said to be with the Sinaloa cartel had made Mario Gonzalez accuse his sister, the former state attorney general, of ties to the rival Juarez drug gang in a video later posted on YouTube.
Friday, November 5, 2010 - 00:00
Dilma will have to take on the entrenched interests of her own party, prevail over sluggish and self-protective bureaucracies and face down multiple other political constraints.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 00:00
The last time a woman ruled over Brazil was in the early 19th century, when Princess Maria Leopoldina served briefly as empress consort of the Brazilian empire
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 00:00
Legalizing marijuana in California probably wouldn't have much effect on the illegal drug business in the U.S. and Mexico.
Monday, November 1, 2010 - 00:00
Dilma Rousseff wins the runoff with the support of the enormously popular outgoing President Lula. She inherits a strong nation with a few looming problems.
Friday, October 29, 2010 - 00:00
The so-called Juarez Valley where the converted school buses were attacked has been racked by fighting between powerful drug cartels. But the more than 330 border factories, or maquiladoras, that dominate Ciudad Juarez and surroundings have been left out.