William Booth
Monday, April 6, 2009 - 00:00
U.S. officials acknowledged that about $7 million from the aid package has been spent - mostly on administration and planning. The most critical items, a $50 million surveillance plane and five rapid-response helicopters, may take as long as two years to
Friday, April 3, 2009 - 00:00
In one of the U.S.-Mexico border's most dangerous cities, body collectors are all-too-familiar sights, murders routinely go unsolved and whole neighborhoods are terrorized
Friday, April 3, 2009 - 00:00
With U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sitting at his side during a news conference, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora stated that the two-day meeting devoted to stopping arms trafficking had produced "an agreement to create a joint
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 00:00
After Calderon became president in December 2006, he told Mexicans that the use of the military against the cartels would be limited and brief. But it is now the centerpiece of his anti-narcotics strategy
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
El Salvador's president-elect promised yesterday that he would serve as a moderate, open-minded leader who would work to improve economic conditions, lift the poor and heal lingering wounds
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 00:00
Funes's opponent, former National Police chief Rodrigo Ávila, who represented the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), was trailing with 48.7 percent of the vote. Ávila conceded defeat
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 00:00
Funes and the FMLN use images of Obama in their ads (despite objections by the U.S. State Department) -- saying both candidates were smeared by their opponents as allies of extremists
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 00:00
In a speech commemorating the founding of the Mexican army, Calderon suggested that drug bosses had paid marchers who took to the streets this week to protest the army's presence in a dozen cities
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 00:00
Tello, 63, along with his bodyguard and a driver, were kidnapped in downtown Cancun last Monday evening, taken to a hidden location, methodically tortured, then driven out to the jungle and shot in the head
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 00:00
The speculation about his continued viability is fueled by the fact that Castro, 82, has not been seen in public since the summer of 2006