Security
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - 00:00
Elections in 12 Mexican states Sunday are taking place across a tense landscape of escalating violence and widespread fear that drug cartels are burrowing ever deeper into Mexico's politics, using corruption, intimidation and murder.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 - 00:00
Despues de mas de una decada de plantear reformas y restricciones a las empresas de seguridad, el FMLN, desde el Ministerio de Seguridad, esta ejerciendo un control mas estricto sobre las agencias.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
A top drug gang enforcer says he ordered the killing of a U.S. consulate worker because she helped provide visas to a rival gang in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
A week of bloodshed in the run-up to important Mexican regional elections culminated overnight in a savage gunfight between rival drug gangs in which at least 21 people were killed a few miles from the US border.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
Peru has ordered the expulsion of a British missionary who was dubbed a "Tarzan agitator" for helping Amazon tribes to resist the incursion of oil, gas and mining companies into the rainforest.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
For months, candidates in many of the 14 states holding elections have complained of intimidation by alleged criminal gangs that has forced them to adopt special security measures and limit their campaigning in high-risk areas.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
Un tiroteo entre bandas rivales de narcotraficantes en el norteno estado de Sonora dejo este jueves un saldo de 21 muertos.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
El presidente Álvaro Uribe, atribuyo a la crisis economica mundial y a las tensiones con Venezuela los elevados indices de desempleo del pais, que en mayo ultimo fue del 12,1 por ciento.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
Nearly two dozen people were killed in a Mexican border area on Thursday during a fierce gun battle between suspected members of rival drug gangs, Mexican authorities said.
Friday, July 2, 2010 - 00:00
Mas de 100.000 habitantes de la Rocinha, una favela de Rio de Janeiro considerada la mas grande de Brasil, tienen desde ayer acceso gratis a Internet inalambrico, gracias a un programa impulsado por el gobierno del estado fluminense.