The Washington Post
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 00:00
After Calderon became president in December 2006, he told Mexicans that the use of the military against the cartels would be limited and brief. But it is now the centerpiece of his anti-narcotics strategy
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 00:00
New money to monitor U.S. traffic entering Mexico and detect gun smugglers will be spent on scanners for inspecting trucks as well as communication equipment
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 00:00
Although the decision is not yet final, Obama is expected to further loosen remaining travel restrictions for all Americans by the time he goes to the April 17-19 Summit of the Americas
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 00:00
After more than 15 months and more than 70 witnesses, the often tedious, sometimes riveting and always live-televised judicial proceeding that is known here as the "mega-trial" has entered its final stages
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 00:00
It is also likely to include support for the Mexican military, a Pentagon official told Congress
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 00:00
"The number of violent deaths linked to organized crime in Ciudad Juarez has fallen by more than 70 percent," Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna said
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 00:00
Court documents and depositions show that some of the companies had close links to illegal paramilitary groups that massacred villagers in a dirty war against leftist rebels
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 00:00
Obama Plans to Send Agents, Equipment To Aid Mexican Fight
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 00:00
The gun shop's proprietor is on trial here, accused of selling at least 650 weapons, including AK-47 rifles, in small lots to "straw buyers" - persons who illegally pass on the weapons to the cartels, thereby fueling the violence that killed mor
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 00:00
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard (D), who said his state is the principal American gateway for drugs and human smuggling from Mexico, called the Mexican cartels the principal criminal threat for the 21st century