The New York Times
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 00:00
But when members of Haiti's tiny elite, small middle class and growing international community here discuss Mr. Aristide, they look over their shoulders, shake their heads, raise their eyebrows. They speak in whispers or in great gulps of nervousness.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 00:00
Three judges have resigned following an uproar over their acquittal of a man in the killing of a teenage girl in northern Mexico.
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 00:00
In the age of the drug war, local policing is often the biggest gap in slowing the spread of criminal networks, whose battles for turf and clashes with federal and state authorities have claimed 34,000 lives in the past four years.
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 00:00
Two previous Ciudad Juarez police chiefs have quit their jobs since 2008 after criminals killed police officers and threatened to kill more unless they resigned.
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican drug cartels now operate virtually uninhibited in their Central American backyard.
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 00:00
An American contractor who United States officials said went to Cuba to deliver communication equipment to religious groups was sentenced Saturday to 15 years in prison by a Cuban court.
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
CBS News and the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity reported that agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigating gunrunning by cartels allowed hundreds of guns purchased in the U.S. to go into Mexico.
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
The Archdiocese of Havana said the government planned to release Oscar Elias Biscet, a dissident who was arrested during an internationally criticized roundup of dissidents in 2003.
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 00:00
But in the last few years, coffee yields have plummeted here and in many of Latin America's other premier coffee regions as a result of rising temperatures and more intense and unpredictable rains, phenomena that many scientists link partly to global warm
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 00:00
The police chief, Marisol Valles Garcia, a college criminology student, had been hired in October after nobody else would take the job.