MSNBC
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 00:00
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the trip to confer with Mexican leaders about the Merida Initiative
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 00:00
Central American nations need urgent international help to confront the increasingly dangerous presence of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, the head of a U.N.-backed commission investigating organized crime in Guatemala said Tuesday.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 00:00
DEA nets Sinaloa suspects in 120 cities; drugs, planes, boats, cars seized
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 00:00
Can U.S. gun laws, immigration rules and drug control policies help?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 00:00
Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom apologized to Cuba on Tuesday for his country's having allowed the CIA to train exiles in the Central American country for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 00:00
Backers of Venezuela's president ransack city hall in wake of bitter defeat
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 00:00
A drug gang kidnapped and killed six people near a town in the U.S.-Mexican border region, prompting a series of gunbattles with soldiers that left 15 others dead
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
Much of the violence is happening not in towns along the border, where it was assumed the bloodshed would spread, but a considerable distance away, in places such as Phoenix and Atlanta.
Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 00:00
When authorities enter a slum, violent shootouts with heavily armed drug gangs often occur, with death tolls difficult to determine by either authorities or slum dwellers.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 00:00
The suspected members of Colombia's right-wing paramilitary militias were detained in relation to an ongoing investigation