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This is how Mexico confines U.S. Marine veteran in its prison
U.S. Marine veteran Jon Hammar spends most of his day on a bunk bed in a dingy Mexican prison, and at times his ankle is restrained by a handcuff locked to a bed. | 12/17/12 15:11:55 By - By Tim Johnson
New paramilitary force to battle narco gangsters in Mexico
President Enrique Pena Nieto laid out a security strategy Monday that creates a new national force, or gendarmerie, to combat organized crime and restore law to the most distant corners of Mexico. | 12/17/12 18:37:22 By - By Tim Johnson
John McAfee heads to Florida after Guatemala deports him
Guatemala on Wednesday put antivirus pioneer John McAfee aboard an airliner bound for Miami, deporting the former software tycoon to his native United States rather than to Belize, which he fled amid an inquiry into the murder of a fellow American. | 12/12/12 18:42:15 By - By Tim Johnson
Lawmakers assail Mexico, Obama administration over jailed U.S. Marine veteran
Florida’s senior U.S. senator Tuesday exhorted Mexico to release an imprisoned Marine Corps veteran of campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan who is being held in a Matamoros prison, declaring that “enough is enough.” | 12/11/12 19:50:14 By - By Tim Johnson
Latest hell for ex-U.S. Marine: Chained to bed in Mexican jail
The two veterans devised a plan: They’d buy a used motor home, load on the surfboards and drive from the Miami area to Costa Rica to find “someplace to be left alone, someplace far off the grid.” They made it to only the Mexican border. | 12/06/12 14:22:57 By - By Tim Johnson
Raucous day in Mexico as Pena Nieto takes over a bruised, bloodied nation
Enrique Pena Nieto assumed the presidency of Mexico Saturday amid high hopes that his muscular, once-autocratic political party, which governed this country for most of the 20th Century, will heal a bruised, bloodied nation and rev the economy. | 12/01/12 15:57:14 By - By Tim Johnson
As Mexico’s Pena Nieto assumes presidency, stars align for him
When Enrique Pena Nieto assumes Mexico’s presidency this weekend, he’ll return the once-entrenched Institutional Revolutionary Party to power with a strong breeze at its back. | 11/29/12 14:48:15 By - By Tim Johnson
Human rights claim likely to dog Mexico’s Felipe Calderon as he leaves presidency
President Felipe Calderon, who leaves office Saturday, is all but certain to find his post-presidency bedeviled by the need to defend his decision six years ago to deploy troops to fight drug cartels, a move that unleashed a frenzy of horrific violence that’s only now beginning to ease. | 11/27/12 15:53:57 By - By Tim Johnson
Mexican lawmaker sees fertile terrain for marijuana debate
Bills to legalize marijuana have come before Mexico’s Congress in the past, and sunk almost without debate. But lawmaker Fernando Belaunzaran Mendez thinks this time is different. | 11/23/12 14:08:01 By - By Tim Johnson
Mexico facing a diabetes 'disaster' as obesity levels soar
With each bite into a greasy taco and slurp of a sugary drink, Mexico hurtles toward what health experts predict will be a public health crisis from diabetes-related disease. | 11/20/12 17:04:59 By - By Tim Johnson
Slaying of 10-year-old boy at theater triggers anguish in Mexico City
The slaying of a 10-year-old boy at a movie theater to see the animated Disney film “Wreck-It Ralph” has caused a commotion in Mexico’s capital and cast a harsh light on the inaction of police and prosecutors. | 11/13/12 16:17:51 By - By Tim Johnson
To some Mennonites in Mexico, Russia looks like Promised Land
It’s been nearly a century since pacifist Mennonites fled Russia for the plains of western Canada, immigrating later to northern Mexico to turn some of its arid high desert into model productive farms. | 11/12/12 00:00:00 By - By Tim Johnson
Mexico charges police in August ambush that wounded 2 Americans
The Mexican Attorney General’s Office on Friday charged 14 federal police officers with first-degree attempted murder in the Aug. 24 ambush of a U.S. Embassy vehicle and offered new details that make it clear the police were on a mission of slaughter when they opened fire on the vehicle on a mountain road outside the Mexican capital. | 11/09/12 15:50:31 By - By Tim Johnson
U.S. votes to legalize pot may encourage Latin American challenges to drug war
Voters in Colorado and Washington state who approved the recreational use of marijuana Tuesday sent a salvo from the ballot box that will ricochet around Latin America, a region that’s faced decades of bloodshed from the U.S.-led war on drugs. | 11/07/12 16:05:49 By - By Tim Johnson
Mexico’s drug violence ebbing, leaving a new sense of optimism
Gradually but notably, the mood of Mexicans has brightened about their personal security and the broader war on crime, a shift in this country’s state of mind that coincides with a sharp reduction in bloodshed in once violent regions. | 11/02/12 16:21:13 By - By Tim Johnson
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