The New York Times
Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 00:00
Ms. Rocha, 51, is the fifth Civil Police chief in the last five years. Some of her predecessors were removed by Rio officials because of suspected improprieties.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 00:00
The killing of an agent from the Drug Enforcement Administration in Mexico in 1985 led to strained relations between officers on both sides of the border, and between the Mexican and American governments.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 00:00
Armed with a $9 billion ruling against Chevron in Ecuador but little chance of collecting it there, representatives for Ecuadorean villagers said Tuesday that they were looking at waging legal battles against the company in more than a dozen countries.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 00:00
The lionization of Mr. Ortega, who married into Sandino's bloodline, is increasingly on display in monuments to the nation's revolutionary past.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 00:00
After the federal police arrested 30 police officers in Rio de Janeiro on Friday who were suspected of working with drug traffickers, Jose Mariano Beltrame, the state's senior police official, said that rooting out corrupt officers would be a priority thi
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 00:00
A judge in a tiny courtroom in the Ecuadorean Amazon ruled Monday that the oil giant Chevron was responsible for polluting remote tracts of Ecuadorean jungle and ordered the company to pay more than $9 billion in damages, one of the largest environmental
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 00:00
At no time in recent history has the reality gap between the two cities been wider. By some estimates, El Paso is now the safest big city in the United States; Ciudad Juarez is among the most dangerous in the world.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 00:00
Authorities say gunmen ambushed and killed a top police commander and then set his car on fire in the northern Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 00:00
We applauded back in December when the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced that it was seeking an emergency rule requiring gun dealers near the Mexican border to report multiple purchases of high-power semiautomatic rifles.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 00:00
In local slang, unlike their neighbors whose abandoned homes are now stripped of even windows, they have become a "familia anclada," a family anchored to Ciudad Juarez.