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 Editorials | At Issue
A Free-for-All on Science and Religion
 George Johnson
Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when Nobelist Sir Harold Kroto, called for the John Templeton Foundation to give its next $1.5 million prize for “progress in spiritual discoveries” to an atheist.
How Long Is Long Enough?
 William Fisher
With everyone's attention riveted on Iraq, Iran, and North Korea these days, it's difficult to find anyone interested in thinking about the bankruptcy of US policies right here in our own hemisphere.
Pentagon Review Sees Three Options in Iraq
 Thomas E. Ricks
The Pentagon's closely guarded review of how to improve the situation in Iraq has outlined three basic options: Send in more troops, shrink the force but stay longer, or pull out, according to senior defense officials.
Ranks of the Rich Grow in Mexico
 Jeremy Schwartz
According to the British market research firm Datamonitor, the number of Mexicans with more than $384,000 in liquid assets will jump 50 percent between 2004 and 2009, from 50,000 to 75,000 in this country of 107 million.
US Democrats Pledge to Scrutinize Justice's Civil Rights Arm
 Charlie Savage
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee last week vowed to impose intense oversight on the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division next year, telling a Bush administration official in charge of the agency that the next Congress will scrutinize whether civil rights laws are being properly enforced.
Political Drift Fuels Drug War
 Alberto Cabezas
The drug-related mayhem that has claimed more than 2,500 lives in Mexico since the beginning of 2005 is at least partly the result of political drift under outgoing President Vicente Fox, a veteran crime reporter says.
Mexican Ex-Presidents Blasted in Report
 Julie Watson
The Mexican government on Saturday released a long-awaited report that for the first time officially blamed "the highest command levels" of three former presidencies for the massacres, tortures and slayings of hundreds of leftists from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Calderón Inherits a Nation in Grip of Violence, Turmoil
 S. Lynne Walker
Drug traffickers are fighting for control of the north. Radical leftists are fighting for control of the south. And some states, like Guerrero, which houses Acapulco, are in the clutches of both. Welcome to the brave new Mexico.
APPO Prepares New Strategy to Reduce Tension
 Alejandro Torres & Jorge Octavio Ochoa
The Oaxaca People´s Assembly (APPO) on Friday outlined a change in strategy as a first step to transform themselves into a formal political force.
Discovery Redraws Map of Ancient Earth
 Ker Than
A section of the Appalachian Mountains discovered in Mexico is forcing scientists to redraw their maps of ancient Earth. A piece of the chain was recently uncovered in a large Mexican outcropping of rock, known as the Acatlan Complex.
AP Gets Shocking New Report on Gitmo
 Associated Press
The U.S. military called no witnesses, withheld evidence from detainees and usually reached a decision within a day as it determined that hundreds of men detained at Guantanamo Bay were "enemy combatants," according to a new report.
American Hispanics Defeat Republicans Turning Congress over to Democrats
 Jon Garrido
Hispanics said "adios" to the Republican Party in November's elections, voting in much greater numbers than expected for Democratic candidates in an apparent rejection of the ruling party's efforts to blame much of the nation's problems on undocumented migrants.
Immigrant Groups Prepare for Reform Push
 Peter Prengaman
With the Democrats set to take control of Congress next year, pro-immigrant groups are meeting around the nation to devise a new strategy to win amnesty for illegal immigrants, repeal of the Secure Fence Act and more visas for foreigners.
Court: Bush Overstepped in Capital Cases
 Maro Robbins
Texas' top criminal court rebuffed President Bush this week, ruling that he overstepped his bounds last year when he told state courts to give new hearings to more than a dozen death row inmates from Mexico.
US Border Patrol Investigates Incursion by Its Agents into Mexico
 Greg Flakus
The US Border Patrol is conducting an investigation into an incident on November 9 when agents trying to stop a drug smuggler near El Paso, Texas, crossed over the Rio Grande river. This is just the latest in a series of border crossings by both U.S. and Mexican law enforcement personnel.
Bush's Belated Accountability Moment
 Nat Parry
With the Democratic sweep of Congress, the White House finds itself confronting the likelihood of a more systematic and more rigorous form of accountability from congressional Democrats newly armed with subpoena powers.
Mexican Investigators Allege that New Evidence Implicates Leftists in U.S. Journalist Shooting
 Associated Press
The Oaxaca state attorney general said yesterday that an American activist-journalist killed while filming a gun battle during recent demonstrations was shot at point-blank range, indicating that the fatal shots came from nearby leftist protesters.
Mexico City Tries to Turn Down the Volume
 Antonio Olivo
Along the crowded Lagunilla outdoor market, street vendors were arguing, even though they could scarcely be heard over wailing police sirens, honking green taxis and blaring music coming from all directions.
"Old Mexico" Raises Ugly Head in Oaxaca Crisis
 Frank Jack Daniel
Lauded in the United States for democratic gains and economic stability, Mexico has shaken off much of the baggage of one-party rule. But the Mexico of corruption, poverty and brutality, lingers just below the surface in large swathes of the country, ready to burst forth.
Toll Mounts in Mexico's Drug War
 Hector Tobar & Cecilia Sanchez
The death toll in Mexico's drug war has surpassed 2,000 this year, with a newspaper editor found dead in the resort city of Zihuatanejo and a police commander assassinated in Tijuana apparently among the latest victims, according to news reports.
Mexico Criticizes U.S. Border Patrol Agents
Louie Gilot
Mexican officials are upset that U.S. Border Patrol agents apparently crossed the border into Mexico without permission while chasing drug smugglers last week.
Democrat-Controlled U.S. Congress a Mixed Bag for Mexico
 Kenneth Emmond
Like American voters commenting with their ballots on issues like the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the economy, Mexicans have been disappointed with the execution of the policies articulated by U.S. President George W. Bush.
Gay Christians Welcome Mexican Unions
 PinkNews.co.uk
A gay Christian group has welcomed last week's introduction of civil union laws for gay and straight partners in Mexico's capital city.
Woes Pile Up for Mexico's Outgoing President
 Jo Tuckman
A very bad week for lame-duck Mexican President Vicente Fox began shortly after midnight last Monday with a series of guerrilla bombings, and it was all downhill from there.
Mexican, U.S. Mayors Blast Border Fence
 Associated Press
Mayors from Mexican and U.S. border cities last week denounced U.S. plans to build a border fence aimed at preventing Mexican from illegally entering the United States.
Sosa: Unrest in Oaxaca Start of Upheaval
 Ioan Grillo
Flavio Sosa is remarkably relaxed for a wanted man. As the most visible leader of a leftist movement that has rattled the Vicente Fox administration, Sosa faces arrest warrants on riot and conspiracy charges.
Democrats to Usher in Change in Judicial Nominations, Investigations
 T.R. Goldman
Democrats, as widely expected, wrested control of the House of Representatives from the Republicans, after 12 years of Republican rule, in elections across the country Tuesday, setting the stage for a series of intensive investigations of the Bush administration by several different House committees.
Mexican Officials Eye US Changes Warily
 Jonathan Roeder
In the wake of a power shift in the U.S. Congress, top Mexican officials expressed cautious optimism on Wednesday over the prospects for a guest worker program with the United States.
"I Talk Nonsense" Quote Gives Fox Red Face
 Reuters
Mexican President Vicente Fox, who is prone to verbal mishaps, put his foot in it again by admitting he talks nonsense, in an off-the-record comment splashed on front pages and played on television news.
Schwarzenegger Can Expect Cold Reception in Mexico
 Carla Marinucci
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may be luxuriating in a landslide re-election victory back home in California, but as he begins a two-day mission to Mexico today, it's clear that he's got some political repair work to do - pronto - in the pulsating capital of a richly varied nation that is the ancestral homeland of millions of California residents.
Illegal Migration and Mexico’s Maras
 Sam Logan
As Americans voted in recent mid-term elections, immigration and border security were two important issues. Yet from the Mexican point of view, heavy pressure from Washington to curb violence and stop illegal immigration at the US-Mexico border has strained relations and taken much needed resources from Mexico’s southern border.
Gay Union Debate Spreads to Coahuila
 Reuters
Mexico's northern border state of Coahuila is considering a law to allow homosexual civil unions, just days before Mexico City could legalize gay partnerships for the first time in the world's second-biggest Catholic nation.
Mexico's Blood-Stained Struggle Mostly Ignored by U.S. Media
 San Jose Mercury News
Asked to name the country where a journalist was recently murdered, most people would say Iraq. Few would guess Mexico. But Mexico is where the most recent death, at least at this writing, has occurred.
Shades of '74 and '94?
 John Cochran
For weeks, political pundits have been forecasting that today's election could be one of those rare "waves" in which one party is overwhelmed by a tide of voter discontent.
Activists Call on Fox to Head Talks Over Conflict
 El Universal
Activists who have directed months of protests here called on President Vicente Fox to personally head negotiations on a resolution to the state´s ongoing crisis. If he refused, they said they would continue a civil resistance campaign aimed at ousting Gov. Ulises Ruiz.
The Couch Potato's Guide to Election Night
 Michael Schwartz
If you have a political bone in your body - even if you're usually a cynic about elections - you're undoubtedly holding your breath right now. With the 2006 midterm elections upon us, the question is: Will the Democrats recapture at least the House of Representatives and maybe even take the Senate by the narrowest of margins?
This Was a Guilty Verdict on America as Well
 Robert Fisk
Anyone who said the Saddam Hussein verdict was designed to help the Republicans, Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, blurted out yesterday, must be "smoking rope". Well, Tony, that rather depends on what kind of rope it might be.
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