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 Editorials | At Issue
The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll
 Mark Jacobson
A new generation of conspiracy theorists is at work on a secret history of New York’s most terrible day. On the five-year anniversary of the attacks, their clamor has gotten stronger - and more widely accepted.more »»»
The Myth of Fair Elections in America
 Paul Harris
The debacle surrounding the Republican victory in 2000 demonstrated to the world that America's electoral process is wide open to abuse. But as Paul Harris discovers, the system has actually worsened since then.more »»»
Mexico's Election Doubts May Linger
 Héctor Tobar
Top electoral officials and judges are feeding doubts about the outcome of Mexico's presidential vote by declining to release details about a recount of 4 million ballots and by moving quickly to destroy all 41 million ballots, legal experts said Friday.more »»»
Mexico's Next President Knows Legislative Politics
 Marion Lloyd & Dudley Althaus
Uncharismatic, wonkish and often short-tempered, Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon has perhaps the weakest mandate in this country's modern history. And he'll take the reins Dec. 1 of a nation addled by poverty, riddled with crime and violence, saddled with a deep political and social divide. That's a recipe for disaster, right?more »»»
Mexico Leftist Adrift on Streets After Vote Loss
 Alistair Bell
He was an inch away from becoming Mexico's president but now Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sleeps every night in a rainy square with the future of his anti-poverty movement in serious doubt.more »»»
Mexico Vote Gives Bush New "Amigo" in Latin America
 Catherine Bremer
Felipe Calderon's election victory in Mexico gives the U.S. government a much-needed conservative ally in Latin America, where it has lost influence in recent years as a string of leftist leaders took power.more »»»
Closed Hearings Ordered in Libby CIA Leak Case
 Joel Seidman
A federal judge has ordered a series of closed hearings to determine if Vice President Cheney's former top aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, can use certain classified information as a defense during his trial in the CIA/Leak case.more »»»
Calderón Must Undo Damage, Experts Say
 S. Lynne Walker
Mexicans know the name of their next president: Felipe Calderón. But with defeated candidate López Obrador vowing to set up a parallel government and declare himself president, many people wonder whether Calderón has the skills to govern his chaotic nation.more »»»
Political Unrest Tough to Tame as Mexico Boils
 Chris Hawley
Conservative Felipe Calderón could be in for months, perhaps years, of political unrest even after a court on Tuesday upheld his razor-thin victory in Mexico's July 2 presidential election.more »»»
Mexico Political Future Still Uncertain
 Traci Carl
Protesters still occupy Mexico City streets. The country is still divided along class lines. Two candidates each still claim to be the next president. A ruling by the Federal Electoral Tribunal on Tuesday ended two months of uncertainty over the winner of the July 2 elections but did little to clear up Mexico's political future.more »»»
What Next for Divided Mexico?
 BBC News
After left-wing lawmakers protesting at alleged election fraud forced outgoing Mexican President Vicente Fox to abandon a key speech, the BBC's Duncan Kennedy asks just how far the protests could go.more »»»
Violence, Election Split has Nation Walking on Eggshells
 Dane Schiller
In Mexico city, an illegal tent city blocks banks, businesses and traffic as hundreds of federal police and soldiers brace for a showdown with leftist demonstrators. In the city of Oaxaca, riots continue almost nightly in the wake of an activist being shot to death and the burning of multiple buses blockading a highway.more »»»
United Nations Report Slams Child Abuse Levels in Mexico
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
The rights of Mexican children are being abused at unacceptably high levels, according to a United Nations report released Monday, with adolescents from age 12 to 17 suffering even more than the younger children.more »»»
In Mexico, the Cardinal and the 'Crazies'
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
At the height of Catholic Mass in the baroque Metropolitan Cathedral, a man interrupted the service by brandishing a political protest sign at the country's most respected religious figure. Outside, demonstrators chanted, "Norberto Rivera, hell awaits you."more »»»
In the US Illegally, Guatemalans Are Prime Targets of Crime
 Riki Altman & Terry Aguayo
Robberies of illegal immigrants have become a serious problem here in West Palm Beach in recent years, and the victims, mostly from Guatemala, often avoid reporting the crimes, fearing deportation.more »»»
Arellano-Felix Arrest Just One Battle in America's Failed Drug War
 Norm Stamper
From Tijuana to Matamoros, drug gang violence along the U.S.-Mexico border has taken the lives of thousands of cops, soldiers, drug dealers, often their families, other innocent citizens from both sides of the border. Many others have gone missing and are presumed dead.more »»»
Bush Administration Opposes US Integration Plans
 David G. Savage
The Bush administration has urged the Supreme Court to strike down voluntary school integration programs across the nation that exclude some students because of their race.more »»»
GOP Candidate Says 9/11 Attacks Were a Hoax
 Albert McKeon
In an editorial board interview with New Hampshire Republican candidate, Mary Maxwell, said the U.S. government had a role in killing nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, so it could make Americans hate Arabs and allow the military to bomb Muslim nations such as Iraq.more »»»
Was the Mexican Election Stolen? Questions Raised Over Results From Preliminary Recount
 Mark Weisbrot
As protests for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continue in Mexico, we take a look at the country’s contested presidential election. Mexico’s Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s says Mexico’s handling of the recount raises questions about the lack of transparency in the recount and the election.more »»»
Life in Mexico's Political 'Tent City'
 BBC News
With a winner in Mexico's 2 July election yet to be officially declared, the BBC's Duncan Kennedy spends time in the centre of Mexico City, where supporters of one of the candidates have spent more than three weeks camping out to demand a full recount.more »»»
A Harsher Border Crossing
 Richard Marosi
America's vast frontier with Mexico remains a highly porous landscape, where migrants by the hundreds of thousands cross annually. But stepped-up patrols, more barriers and high-tech monitoring have made the boundary impenetrable for many.more »»»
Rescued at Sea, Now Roasted in the Media
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
They started out as national heroes, lauded after their rescue last week for supposedly surviving 9 1/2 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean with only rainwater, raw fish and uncooked seagulls to sustain them. Since then, everything about their story has been questioned.more »»»
Why Doesn't America Believe in Evolution?
 Jeff Hecht
Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals: true or false? This simple question is splitting America apart, with a growing proportion thinking that we did not descend from an ancestral ape. more »»»
Homeland Last Trip for Many Late Immigrants
 Joel Marino
Families want their loved ones' remains returned to their homeland to be laid to rest. It costs thousands of dollars to return the bodies to their countries, and often, there are no laws regulating what should be done when they die in the United States.more »»»
Uncertainty Surrounds Mexican Election Protest
 Hector Tobar
A line of armored vehicles awaits outside Mexico's Congress building. Most are brand new and have never seen action. But many Mexicans wonder if their menacing presence is a harbinger of this divided country's future.more »»»
New International Language Gains Popularity
 Mtra. Martha Cárdenas
Experts from all over the world agree that many of today's problems between both countries and people is a lack of communication. But there are those who are trying to remedy this situation with a simple language that is easy to learn, logical, phonetic and a neutral instrument of international communication for all - Esperanto.more »»»
Demonstrators Seek Bigger Stunts to Get Public's Attention
 Julie Watson
Street cleaners throwing bagfuls of their own blood at the doors of the Senate, potbellied farmers marching naked through the financial district - such street theater is now the norm in Mexico, where citizens long ago learned to separate political rhetoric from reality.more »»»
Battle for Mexico's Democratic Soul
 Franc Contreras
Politics has often been a violent affair in Mexico. And after decades of virtual one-party rule, July's parliamentary election has caused bitter recrimination. The row highlights the cynicism most Mexicans feel towards their politicians and institutions.more »»»
Group Says Fraud Occurred During Mexico's Presidential Vote
 Istra Pacheco
A group of international observers who monitored Mexico's disputed presidential election called for the full recount demanded by the leftist candidate this week, saying it had witnessed fraud on election day and that recounting all 41 million ballots would resolve doubts about the result.more »»»
Indian Nation Divided Over Border Fence
 Jim Gaynor
Members of a traditional Indian nation spanning the Arizona-Mexico border are divided over plans to erect a fence to stop drug and human traffickers driving over the desert from Mexico.more »»»
Mexico's Rich Build Dynasties
 Chris Hawley
Carlos Slim is rich. Insanely rich. Astronomically rich. If you took his $37.6 billion and laid the dollar bills end to end, they would stretch to the moon and back seven times, that's how rich he is. That the world's third-wealthiest man is from Mexico, a country still plagued by poverty, is remarkable. But what's more remarkable is this: He's not the only ultra rich Mexican out there.more »»»
Mexico's Poll Loser Wins Support for High-Risk Plan of Non-Stop Opposition
 Adam Thomson
Andrés Manuel López Obrador's latest address to thousands of supporters in the Zócalo, Mexico City's main central square, was a scene Mexicans have grown used to since the leftwing leader lost out to Felipe Calderón in the country's closest election.more »»»
Tactical Shift Emerges from PRD Camp
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
Andrés Manuel López Obrador´s call for an ongoing "convention" of supporters to act as an extra-governmental political force underscores a tactical shift that has already changed the tone of the post-electoral dispute and also could define how Mexico is governed over the next six years.more »»»
Venezuelan Democracy Looks Alive, Despite Doubts
 Terry Wade
Listen to the White House and one might think President Hugo Chavez has turned oil-rich Venezuela into a totalitarian state like Cuba, lacking a free press, freedom of speech and multi-party elections. Despite the United States' rhetoric against Chavez, elements of democracy are easy to see in Venezuela, political scientists say.more »»»
Feuding Minutemen Only United on Border Woes
 Tim Gaynor
More than a year after their first stakeouts on the US- Mexico border, Minuteman civilian patrol volunteers are divided and questions are being raised about whether their movement's influence is on the wane.more »»»
Protesters-Army Fight Brewing in Mexico
 Ioan Grillo
A potentially dangerous confrontation between the Mexican army and thousands of protesters loomed larger Tuesday as federal officials insisted on holding annual Independence Day celebrations on the same streets occupied for weeks by supporters of the leftist presidential candidate.more »»»
Silent March for Victims as Dirty War Accelerates
 Nancy Davies
So much attention has been focused on what's been going down in Mexico City with the presidential election chaos that protests and deaths in Oaxaca are being ignored by the mainstream media.more »»»
Election Protesters Dig In But Doubt Victory
 Catherine Bremer
Cold and wet from marathon street protests over election cheating claims, many supporters of Mexico's leftist opposition leader are losing hope that he can stop his conservative rival taking power.more »»»
The Party at the Heart of Mexico City's Protest
 Sara Miller Llana
To its critics, the massive ongoing occupation of downtown Mexico City is a hotbed of anarchy and a breeding ground for violence in the wake of the country's disputed July 2 election. Yet a visitor could easily mistake this historic moment in Mexico's budding multiparty democracy for, well, a night at the summer fair.more »»»
Different Factions Vie for Control of the PRI
 Nayeli Cortés Cano & Carlos Ordóñez
Following the crushing defeat in the July 2 election, a number of internal factions are vying for control in the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). For the moment, the party remains under the control of Roberto Madrazo, the party´s presidential candidate who garnered only 22 percent of the vote.more »»»
Border Agents: 'We're Never Going to Stop Them, Never'
 Miguel Bustillo
Though politicians and regular folks all over America agree that stopping illegal immigration starts with sealing the border, agents on the front line are under no illusions that they can catch everyone — even with the 6,000 extra agents that President Bush plans to put on the border over the next two years.more »»»
Protesters Learn to Cope with Hardships
 Mark Stevenson
Nearing the end of its second rain-soaked week, the tent-city set up by supporters of leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador on the 8.5 kilometer (5-mile) Reforma Avenue has produced misery and anger, as well as moments of grace and inspiration as weeks of indecision in the presidential race drag on.more »»»
Lopez Obrador Seeks World Support
 Jennifer Gonzalez
Camped out in the streets of the capital with his supporters, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sought world support in his quest for a full recount of Mexico's July 2 presidential election.more »»»
The Recount: Reading Between the Lines
 Ceci Connolly
Sometimes in Mexico you need to read several versions of the same story to make an educated guess as to what exactly is going on. Such is the case with the recount taking place in more than 11,000 polling places across the country.more »»»
Bribery a Way of Life in Mexico
 Marla Dickerson
To be sure, corruption is a global phenomenon affecting rich nations as well as poor ones. Witness the waste and fraud of the federal payouts from Hurricane Katrina in the US. But in Mexico, it is an ongoing disaster.more »»»
VoterAction Announces the Filing of a New Motion of Preliminary Injunction in State Court
 BradBlog.com
In a press release issued 08 August 2006, VoterAction has announed that California voters are challenging the use of the Diebold TSx touch screen voting system and that they have filed a motion for preliminary injunction in state court.more »»»
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