The Washington Post
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 00:00
Under Venezuelan law, suspects cannot be held in custody longer than two years without trial and Afiuni was arrested on Dec. 10, 2009
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
Mexico has increasingly turned to troops to take on law enforcement because repeated cleanup crusades have failed to cure the corruption and lack of professionalism that plagues the country’s police forces
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had a good laugh when he discovered that a Benetton advertisement shows him kissing his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 00:00
While citizens might imagine the National Guard patrolling the muddy cane breaks along the Rio Grande in search of drug cartel incursions, many of the troops instead serve as stationary observers, a kind of neighborhood watch with M-16s
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 00:00
The destruction between August 2010 through July 2011 was about 2,410 square miles
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
"Instead of sending people to jail, whoever they may be, we change the name of the institution and think we have resolved the problem"
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
The emergency restricts civil liberties such as the right to assembly and allows arrests without warrants in four provinces of Cajamarca state that have been paralyzed for 11 days by increasingly violent protests against the $4.8-billion Conga gold-and-co
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
The Border Patrol apprehended 327,577 illegal crossers along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, numbers not seen since Richard Nixon was president
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 00:00
For three years, authorities have found sophisticated tunnels on the U.S.-Mexico border shortly before the winter holidays
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 00:00
Mexican government reprimands local officials for discussing slain activist's criminal record