William Booth
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 00:00
Haitian President Rene Preval issued a communique saying his country needed 36 million emergency rations of food just to get through the next few weeks and 200,000 tents immediately.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 00:00
U.S. and Canadian military forces have been designated to guard food distribution sites as they open, freeing the U.N. security forces to patrol and keep order. The additional U.N. peacekeeping personnel approved Tuesday will bring the total in Haiti to 1
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 00:00
The museum is now housed in spacious suites at Mexico's version of the Pentagon, but its curators say they are running out of room for all the contraband they would like to showcase
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 00:00
The finding appeared to avert a bizarre political crisis that had threatened the stability of the country
Friday, December 18, 2009 - 00:00
"They are the big thinkers. . . . At the minimum, this will cause quite a bit of dislocation in the organization, and it is possible it could cause a power struggle within the cartel,"
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico's pipelines over the past two years
Monday, December 14, 2009 - 00:00
The detention of an American contractor working for the U.S. government may raise tensions between the Castro brothers' communist government in Cuba and the Obama administration, which has been taking a "go-slow" approach
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 00:00
The United States has spent a fraction of the money pledged -- just $24 million of $1.3 billion appropriated -- to help Mexico
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 00:00
U.S. officials complain that it is difficult to obtain the most basic information from the military on human rights cases. Obama administration officials maintain that the Mexican government is making sufficient progress on human rights to justify the con
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 00:00
Violence among young soars as drug cartels recruit more minors