The New York Times
Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 00:00
MEXICO CITY — With a deadly drug war spreading around the country, beleaguered Mexican officials on Friday welcomed $400 million in anti-narcotics assistance in a bill that was given final Congressional approval in Washington on Thursday night.
Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 00:00
A Mexican citizen who is a distant relative of a prominent congressman from Texas was kidnapped last week in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and then released within three days after the victim’s immediate family paid ransom of $32,000.
Friday, June 27, 2008 - 00:00
A gunman killed a high-ranking commander in the federal police and a bodyguard as they ate lunch at a busy restaurant
Friday, June 27, 2008 - 00:00
Officials of Guerrero State have agreed to pay $3,400 each to 14 indigenous men who were coerced into having vasectomies a decade ago.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 00:00
Environmental advocates lauded the move but warned that it must be the first of many if Brazil is to have any chance of seriously stemming deforestation.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 00:00
CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — When George Terrazas was mugged at gunpoint in this Mexican border city several months ago, he vowed never to return.
George Terrazas of El Paso made it a point to go to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the other day so that he c
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 00:00
PANAMA — In life, Wilson C. Lucom was not exactly child friendly. The gruff octogenarian never had children himself and was not especially close to the offspring of his third wife, Hilda, either. When he opened his ample checkbook, friends say, it was m
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 00:00
In a long-awaited concession, Mrs. Kirchner, her popularity plummeting in opinion polls, agreed last week to let Congress approve or reject the system of sliding taxes that she imposed on farmers
Monday, June 23, 2008 - 00:00
The activists, in a report released Monday, called the delay of $54 million in international loans to the Haitian government “one of the most egregious examples of malfeasance by the United States in recent years.”
Monday, June 23, 2008 - 00:00
LOS TEQUES, Venezuela — When Nurul Asyiqin Ahmad was taken seven months ago to her cell at the National Institute of Feminine Orientation, a prison perched on a hill in this city of slums on the outskirts of Caracas, learning how to play Beethoven was o