Security
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
According to the FBI, the four large U.S. cities (with populations of at least 500,000) with the lowest violent crime rates - San Diego, Phoenix and the Texas cities of El Paso and Austin - are all in border states.
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
The death of a senior leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel on Thursday is a step towards the first goal. But it will do nothing to make Mexicans feel any safer.
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
El gobierno de Cuba dijo que no tiene intencion de reformar su modelo economico socialista hacia uno de mercado, pero anuncio que si se propone actualizarlo "con mucha calma".
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
Los secuestrados presentaban diversas lesiones, incluso fracturas, por las practicas de tortura a que eran sometidos, por lo que fueron trasladados para su inmediata atencion medica.
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
En el Cereso numero 2 de Gomez Palacio fueron asesinados cuatro internos por un grupo de reos, que ingreso a las celdas 1 y 8 de ese penal.
Monday, August 2, 2010 - 00:00
El rapto de periodistas y la inseguridad para ejercer la profesion fueron los motivos que llevaron a Televisa a sacar del aire un noticiero.
Friday, July 30, 2010 - 00:00
The US has closed indefinitely its consulate in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city worst affected by the drugs war being fought by rival gangs.
Friday, July 30, 2010 - 00:00
The U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez is closed on July 30, 2010 to review its security posture. American citizens are advised avoid the area around the Consulate General until it reopens.
Friday, July 30, 2010 - 00:00
Plan Colombia succeeded because, at the same time that it stepped up its antidrug efforts, Colombia aggressively reformed its tax system and greatly improved government accountability.
Friday, July 30, 2010 - 00:00
The government will submit a plan to Congress that calls for raising budgeted spending next year by 2.5 percent to 147.3 trillion pesos ($79.9 billion).