The Washington Post
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 00:00
Rousseff appears to be touching a chord at the right time. Brazilians are asking why their surging country — which is set to soon become the world’s sixth-largest economy, overtaking Britain — should put up with the rot in the halls of power
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 00:00
The study released Wednesday by Colombia’s government and the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime was authored by economist Ricardo Rocha
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican authorities said Tuesday that an alleged founder of the Zetas drug cartel had an arsenal of 169 weapons when he was captured
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 00:00
Alberto Lopez, the attorney general of the southern state of Guerrero, told a local radio station he believed “there were outside elements involved in the protest” who were not students at the rural teachers college
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 00:00
Mr. Perry, as with many Republicans, prefers to dwell on the specter of border insecurity — the facts be damned — because he has no solution for the real challenge: the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants already living in the United States
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 00:00
The Tlachinollan human rights group and other organizations condemned the killings in a statement, calling them “police brutality and an irrational use of force.”
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 00:00
Marines arrested Raul Lucio Hernandez Lechuga in the city of Cordoba in the state of Veracruz, where the Zetas are fighting for control against a gang allied to the Sinaloa drug cartel
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 00:00
Today, with U.S. help in training at academies, the country has more than 30,000 new or retrained federal police officers. Yet 50,000 troops continue to patrol the streets and will do so until the end of Calderon’s six-year term
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 00:00
“It’s worrisome that the power of prime minister has been granted to Valdes, a former military man who incarnates the most authoritarian voice of the regime”
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 00:00
More than 300 medical offices will be set up to provide health care in urban areas with large numbers of drug users