Security
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 00:00
President Sebastian Pinera says he will use money in the Copper Stabilization Fund to help rebuild after the earthquake, which caused an estimated $30 billion in damage.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 00:00
Rates of violent crime are on the rise in Mexico, but they remain lower than in the not-so-distant past -- and lower than today's violence in other Latin American countries of comparable size and wealth.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 00:00
The tsunami that barreled through here after last month
s 8.8-magnitude earthquake washed away the fishing industry before the fishermen could cast their first net.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 00:00
President Felipe Calderon visits Ciudad Juarez today, just days after the Mexico killings of two Americans. He will tout new social programs aimed at improving life in the violence-wracked city.
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 00:00
Mexican authorities put suspicion on the Aztecas street gang - a group allied with the "La Linea" enforcement arm of the Juarez drug cartel.
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 00:00
Muchos colombianos contaron el domingo estar dispuestos a votar por un Congreso dominado por la actual coalicion oficialista y por su politica de mano dura frente a la guerrilla, aunque los mas humildes, angustiados ante su situacion economica, se inclina
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 00:00
So are the Obamans smart enough to know better, but trapped by politics and afraid to try a bold new approach? Or do they really believe in the drug war?
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 00:00
The earthquake that struck Haiti's capital city has also jarred the impoverished countryside, sending 600,000 people into the provinces -- where locals are now overwhelmed with the task of feeding and sheltering desperate newcomers.
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 00:00
That the large aid organizations are not reaching out to community-based organizations, much less consulting them, is nothing new in Haiti.
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 00:00
These appalling assaults on members of our own State Department family are, sadly, part of a growing tragedy besetting many communities in Mexico.