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Mexico seizes father-in-law of Sinaloa drug cartel chief on eve of Obama visit
Authorities on Tuesday captured the father-in-law of the powerful chief of the Sinaloa Cartel, chalking up a victory against crime in a week in which President Barack Obama is to travel to Mexico. | 04/30/13 22:09:01 By - By Tim Johnson
Crisis in political alliance imperils reform drive in Mexico
A vaunted three-party alliance that sustains President Enrique Pena Nieto’s drive to enact major changes in Mexico is severely fraying, casting a shadow over pending overhauls in tax collection, finance and energy production. | 04/23/13 16:58:03 By - By Tim Johnson
Gulf Cartel’s power struggle holds Mexican city of Reynosa hostage
The sinister-looking men seem to be everywhere. They stand idly, walkie-talkies in hand, at key intersections or at the entrances to gated communities where their unseen masters live. They are the front line of the dark power struggle that’s roiling Reynosa, a Mexican border city just a short drive from the tranquillity of Texas. | 03/28/13 15:31:01 By - By Tim Johnson
As U.S. tightens rules on lead emissions, battery recycling has moved to Mexico
Mexico’s standard for lead emissions standards are 10 times less stringent than the United States’. Since 2004, that’s meant a fivefold increase in the number of spent car batteries being shipped to Mexico from the United States and a dwindling in U.S.-based smelting operations to just 14. | 03/26/13 16:49:36 By - By Tim Johnson
253,000 U.S. guns smuggled to Mexico annually, study finds
Some 2.2 percent of all U.S. gun sales are made to smuggling rings that take firearms to Mexico, a scale of illegal trafficking that’s “much higher than widely assumed,” an academic study released Monday found. | 03/18/13 18:44:10 By - By Tim Johnson
UN predicts huge expansion of wealth in developing world that will shift power
The middle class is growing – just not in the United States or Europe – but in the far reaches of the globe, a change that very likely will move power away from the world’s current centers of prosperity, a United Nations study released Thursday concludes. | 03/14/13 16:29:53 By - By Tim Johnson
Poised yet savage, blogger Yoani Sanchez takes on Cuba’s sclerotic Castro regime
The shouts could be heard easily inside the hotel where Yoani Sanchez was appearing over the weekend. “Down with Yoani!” they resonated from a small clique of pro-Castro protesters who’d gathered outside. | 03/11/13 16:19:55 By - By Tim Johnson
Mexico moves to open up telecom industry long dominated by monopolies
Leaders of Mexico’s three major political parties launched a sweeping proposal Monday to break open the highly monopolistic telecommunications sector, calling for new laws that would create competition to the established companies that now control the nation’s broadcast and cable television, Internet access, and fixed line and cellular telephones. | 03/11/13 19:09:06 By - By Tim Johnson
Cubans evade censorship by exchanging computer memory sticks, blogger says
Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez on Saturday told newspaper publishers from around the Western Hemisphere that “nothing is changing” in Cuba’s ossified political system and that “the situation of press freedom in my country is calamitous.” | 03/09/13 17:31:55 By - By Tim Johnson
Ex-world leaders: Time for U.S. to rethink drug policy as states ease marijuana laws
Three former heads of state are urging the United States to engage in a serious discussion of drug legalization, saying its counternarcotics policies are becoming untenable in the wake of voter approval last fall of measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado. | 03/08/13 17:16:14 By - By Tim Johnson
Many in Latin America fear Hugo Chavez’s death will end Venezuela’s Santa role
Some 17 countries gained benefits under Hugo Chavez’s Petrocaribe program, under which Venezuela sent about 10 percent of its crude oil production to member states under generous terms. It permitted them to repay in part in goods or services – sugar, beans, rice – rather than in cash. Many now wonder about the program’s future. | 03/06/13 19:41:47 By - By Tim Johnson and Vinod Sreeharsha
Mexican families struggle to bring attention to those who’ve disappeared
Rogelio Elizondo’s son went to buy a used car in Nuevo Laredo two years ago. He never came back. In much of Mexico, Elizondo’s tragedy would remain the anguish of a solitary family in a country where the problem of ‘disappeared’ people is worse than anyplace else in the Western Hemisphere. But a slightly more positive story is unfolding. Elizondo joined with scores of other families looking into the cases of 298 missing persons in his state of Coahuila. The families raised a clamor. They met with the governor, who agreed to set up a special prosecutor’s office for the disappeared. And the fears of relatives melted somewhat as their ranks grew. | 03/05/13 18:45:32 By - By Tim Johnson
If Mexico wants to launch anti-corruption crusade, there are plenty of officials to go after
The daughter of the boss of Mexico’s powerful oil workers union made a youthful indiscretion when she went to Europe last year: She posted photos of her lavish odyssey on Facebook. | 03/04/13 00:00:00 By - By Tim Johnson
Arrest of Mexico teacher union boss Elba Esther Gordillo seen as a warning to foes of reform
Mexico’s political world rippled from the imprisonment of Elba Esther Gordillo, the powerful 68-year-old “president for life” of the 1.5 million-member national teachers’ union, the largest such union in the hemisphere. | 02/27/13 17:05:05 By - By Tim Johnson
Mexico arrests Elba Esther Gordillo, powerful teachers union boss, on corruption charges
Mexican authorities Tuesday announced the arrest on corruption charges of Elba Esther Gordillo, the mighty head of the national teachers’ union, striking a blow against one of the country’s most despised, but also most powerful political figures. | 02/26/13 23:02:57 By - By Tim Johnson
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