Houston Chronicle
Friday, August 20, 2010 - 00:00
Peru and Colombia have at times used anonymous or "faceless" judges in their wars against guerrilla groups and drug traffickers as a means to protect judges from reprisals for their rulings. The use of such judges has been criticized.
Monday, August 9, 2010 - 00:00
In an alarming development over the past few months, a near neighbor of the U.S. has become one of the deadliest nations in the world for journalists.
Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 00:00
Rogelio Segovia Hernandez, who reputedly helped lead the La Linea gang that worked for the Juarez cartel, was detained Tuesday in the state capital of Chihuahua.
Monday, July 26, 2010 - 00:00
Travel to Cuba by Americans, barred for more than four decades, has a direct and indisputable connection to increasing the sale of U.S.-grown food to Cuba.
Friday, July 23, 2010 - 00:00
Cuba has replaced its long-serving health minister, the latest in a flurry of recent leadership changes.
Friday, July 23, 2010 - 00:00
With the underworld violence killing 25,000 Mexicans in less than four years, assassins have become nearly as inventive at disposing of their victims as in dispatching them.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez announced Wednesday that Venezuela would rethink its relations with the Vatican as tensions rise between his government and Catholic Church representatives.
Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 00:00
The protesters were part of a leftist farmers movement that arose in 2002 to oppose the government's plan to expropriate land to build an airport in the town of San Salvador Atenco, on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 00:00
Vega, 40, was a singer of "narcocorridos" - a subgenre that updates the folkloric "corrido" tradition of ballads about revolutionary heroes to tell the story of, and sometimes lionize, drug traffickers.
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 00:00
Investigators have pulled 56 corpses and four heads from the 600-foot-deep mine shaft.