The Los Angeles Times
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 00:00
Rebels, drug traffickers and soldiers may battle around them and encroach on their lands, but tribes hold on to their peaceful ways
Friday, January 9, 2009 - 00:00
We are winning, but we haven't won yet. This could backfire very rapidly. [The end of Plan Colombia] is what the rebels want
Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 00:00
South American producers are increasingly using Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and other countries in the region as transit hubs to Europe
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 00:00
Evolving views of the local population and 50 years of failed U.S. policy suggest change is long overdue.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 - 00:00
Experts and public figures in the U.S. and Latin America offer a range of views, from stepped-up policing to legalization.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 00:00
The National Drug Threat Assessment cites increased drug seizures on smuggling routes and Mexico's war on organized crime
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 00:00
The American hostage negotiator was in the border state of Coahuila on personal business when he disappeared
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 00:00
The region had been enjoying a commodities-driven boom. Measures' success may hinge on a global recovery
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 00:00
Authorities say Enrique Portocarrero was the innovative creator of stealthy submarines called semi-submersibles, used by cocaine traffickers to evade detection
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 00:00
Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora says 5,376 people have been killed so far in 2008, more than twice the toll for the first 11 months of 2007