William Booth
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 00:00
Mexican leaders are increasingly asking why their country should continue to attack cannabis traffickers and peasant pot farmers if the U.S. government is barely enforcing federal marijuana laws.
Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 00:00
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that the surging drug violence in Mexico now resembles that of war-torn Colombia a generation ago, with criminal cartels looking like "insurgencies" battling for control of territory.
Friday, September 3, 2010 - 00:00
Most of the explosives are legacies of the Cold War, manufactured in the United States and shipped to Central America to fight leftist revolutionaries in the 1980s.
Friday, September 3, 2010 - 00:00
President Felipe Calderon acknowledged Thursday that an increasingly bloody war with powerful drug trafficking organizations continues to pose "the central threat"
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 00:00
The traffickers have been caught hauling marijuana along the Texas border in fake versions of a Wal-Mart truck or FedEx van. They've employed sham school buses, dummy dump trucks and bogus ambulances.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 00:00
Alleged drug lord 'La Barbie' captured in Mexico
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 00:00
The drug traffickers and their Colombian suppliers smuggle $20 billion to $25 billion in U.S. bank notes across the southwest border annually.
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
Fearing for their lives and the safety of their families, journalists are adhering to a near-complete news blackout, under strict orders of drug smuggling organizations and their enforcers.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 00:00
Drug cartel violence in Mexico is quickly spilling south into Central America and is threatening to destabilize fragile countries already rife with crime and corruption.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 00:00
Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan told Congress, "What is important is not to create the perception that it was an indiscriminate act against civilians."