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American aid missions fall victim to Mexico's turmoil
As Mexico battles narcotics and crime groups, U.S. medical and religious missions that for generations had come to build houses, tend the sick and conduct goodwill activities have been forced to retreat. The suspension of such missions has cast a terrible, unseen blow on hidden corners of Mexico. It's also been painful for Americans with a desire to help. | 03/06/12 15:33:00 By - Tim Johnson
In Mexico, Biden shoots down talk of drug legalization
Vice President Joseph Biden said Monday that "there is no possibility" that Washington would heed a growing call by some Latin American presidents to move toward drug legalization. | 03/05/12 18:48:00 By - Tim Johnson
Along Mexico border, drug taint on politicians lingers
In dribs and drabs, in Mexican news accounts and U.S. court documents, new allegations are surfacing of ties between politicians and drug lords along the border with Texas. | 03/02/12 16:11:00 By - Tim Johnson
In revived Tijuana, a new calm delights - and mystifies
This border city, once as violent as any in Mexico's drug-fueled trafficking wars, appears to have shaken off narco-related mayhem, allowing an explosion of new music halls, art galleries and world-class restaurants. | 02/27/12 14:37:00 By - Tim Johnson
Pot-smuggling tunnels in Tijuana grow more elaborate
U.S. agents have been waging war against the drug smuggling tunnels for years, using a range of high-tech devices from ground-penetrating radar to seismic sensors to find and destroy them. But despite the efforts, drug smugglers continue to build the tunnels, often spending $1 million to dig a single pathway equipped with lighting, forced-air ventilation, water pumps, shoring on walls and hydraulic elevators. | 02/20/12 17:26:00 By - Tim Johnson
Mexican prison melee said to be cover for gangsters' escape
Prison guards apparently let inmates who belonged to the brutal Los Zetas gang bludgeon to death scores of rivals from the Gulf Cartel during a weekend riot, while other Zetas gangsters fled the prison, Gov. Rodrigo Medina of Nuevo Leon state said Monday. | 02/20/12 17:52:00 By - Tim Johnson
Scientists amazed as Pacific whales turn up far from home
When scientists fired a cigar-sized satellite tag into the blubber of a western gray whale off Russia's Sakhalin Island in September, they expected to track her along Asia's Pacific shoreline down to the South China Sea. To their surprise, the young female turned up off of Mexico's Baja Peninsula. | 02/15/12 16:13:00 By - Tim Johnson
Inmates trapped in blazing Honduran prison say guards shot at them
Charred bodies of inmates remained in the burned hulk of the Comayagua National Penitentiary on Wednesday night, nearly 24 hours after an inmate apparently set a mattress ablaze and triggered a conflagration that left as many as 350 prisoners dead. | 02/15/12 12:11:18 By - Melissa Sanchez and Tim Johnson
Mexico town takes a monetary path less traveled
Organizers in this verdant hill town in Veracruz state have coaxed a tiny economic experiment on the citizenry: They created an alternative local currency. | 02/01/12 16:18:00 By - Tim Johnson
Nissan to build $2 billion Mexico plant, sidestepping security concerns
In a sign that global manufacturers are looking beyond Mexico's security woes, Nissan said Wednesday that it will invest $2 billion in a new auto plant in Aguascalientes, a central city that has seen problems with crime groups. | 01/25/12 17:39:00 By - Tim Johnson
Mexican leader's challenge: Staying safe once out of office
Allegations of human rights abuses by Mexico's military bedevil President Felipe Calderon, raising a dilemma familiar to Latin American presidents: Where can he go upon leaving office to stay safe and out of court? | 01/24/12 17:57:00 By - Tim Johnson
Crime booms as Central Americans fear police switched sides
In a city that's just earned the title of the most dangerous in the Americas, few people dare go to the police with complaints. Rather, they view police officers with fear, scorn and disgust. | 01/20/12 16:06:00 By - Tim Johnson
Honduras is test of new U.S. policy on gay rights
From U.N. chambers to the halls of the State Department, global pressure on countries to protect the rights of gay and transgender people is rising. | 01/17/12 14:42:00 By - Tim Johnson
Is Mexico City's newest monument a tribute to spirit or graft?
The newest addition to this city's skyline, a monument of steel and luminescent quartz that soars some 30 stories into the sky, is destined to "become an icon of our capital," says Mexican President Felipe Calderon. | 01/12/12 17:17:00 By - Tim Johnson
North Korea, in transition, could draw further into shell
With the passing of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il, experts said Monday, the nuclear-armed nation is likely to retreat into greater seclusion from the world while the political transition sorts itself out. North Koreans are as unfamiliar with the successor, Kim Jong Un, as the rest of the world is. | 12/19/11 16:45:00 By - Tim Johnson and Lesley Clark
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