The Los Angeles Times
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 00:00
Legislators back the nomination by a 75-27 vote despite criticism from human rights activists
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 00:00
Soldiers and police fire tear gas to scatter supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who remains sheltered in the Brazilian Embassy
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 00:00
Brazil's president says that while global leaders were able to avert economic disaster, now is no time to go back to business as usual
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 00:00
Arturo Chavez Chavez was a Chihuahua state prosecutor during the 1990s, when hundreds of women were slain in Ciudad Juarez. Before a Senate committee, he acknowledges failures by agents he supervised
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 00:00
It was not clear how Zelaya expected to return to power from inside a foreign embassy
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 00:00
The government's focus on hyper-violent Buenaventura has cut the homicide rate to one-third of what it was two years ago and yielded millions in cash seized from cargo containers from Mexico
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 00:00
Federal investigators say he served as a secret ally of traffickers while he was posted in Guadalajara
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 00:00
Two doctors and eight clients are killed in an attack by gunmen at a rehab facility in Ciudad Juarez. Officials close down others like it in the violent border city
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 00:00
Some U.S. authorities suspect that the fire-free zone in Mexicali comes at a cost: a cozy relationship between Mexican law enforcement and the country's most powerful organized crime group, the Sinaloa drug cartel
Monday, September 14, 2009 - 00:00
In the last year, agents have recovered about $8 million in fake notes across the U.S. and $18 million, as well as fake passports, in raids in Peru