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The Whole World Will Be Watching
 Bill Simpich
Until Friday, the story about the impending second trial of United States v. Lt. Ehren Watada was how the Army was planning on a proceeding with very little publicity and almost no witnesses. It almost worked.
Mexican Congress Passes Human Trafficking Law
 USEmbassy-Mexico.gov
According to U.S. government estimates, approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year. On October 2nd, U.S. Ambassador Antonio Garza congratulated Mexican Congress on passing a law to combat human trafficking.
Remains of John Does Stack Up
 Susan Carroll
The yellowing skeletons are stored in filing boxes in the hallway of the old prison outside Laredo. Under fluorescent lights, the dead are stacked in a bay of metal lockers, two high and three across. The walk-in cooler across the hall is larger, but all of the tables are full, too.
Billion Dollar Boost for Failing Anti-Drug Strategy
 Diego Cevallos
U.S. anti-drug aid to Mexico is to be increased from 40 million to over 500 million dollars a year, an unprecedented boost in funding that will expand a controversial strategy in which the military is heavily involved in the war on drugs.
Exports of Horses for Slaughter Surge
 Star-Telegram.com
A surge in exports of unwanted horses across the border for slaughter has horrified animal-welfare advocates, who say they will redouble efforts for a law to ban shipments of horses to Mexican and Canadian slaughterhouses.
Politician Runs, but Marathon Officials Now Want a Recount
 Sam Enriquez
Former Mexican presidential candidate Roberto Madrazo disappeared midway through the Berlin Marathon on Sunday before reappearing nine miles later, winning first in his age group and shaving an hour off his personal record.
Wounded US Vets Face Financial Woes
 Jeff Donn & Kimberly Hefling
He was one of America's first defenders on Sept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins of the Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq. Today, he can't keep a job, pay his bills, or chase thoughts of suicide from his tortured brain. In a few weeks, he may lose his house, too.
Drug Traffickers are a Creative Bunch
 Angela Brandt
Drug traffickers hide narcotics in many unlikely places. Car seats. Vehicle engines. Baby formula bottles. Secret compartments in semi trucks. Drug task force member Jerry Nystrom has seen it all while patrolling Montana’s Hi-Line along the U.S.-Canadian border.
The Border Wars
 Jose de La Isla
Along the U.S.-Mexico border, congressional candidates who advocated enforcement-only - but not comprehensive - immigration reform found support dropping by more than 21 percent in precincts with significant Latino constituents, costing them the election.
Secret US Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
 Scott Shane, David Johnston & James Risen
When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto Gonzales's arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret.
Gay Couples Cross the Border for Love
 Claudia Núñez
American same-sex couples, who used to travel to Canada and other countries to get married, now have a new wedding destination: Mexico. Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión examines the phenomenon that has many gay couples crossing the southern border.
Still a Messiah?
 Isabel Hilton
Forty years after his death, Che Guevara has little to offer as a guide for making revolution. So why does his image continue to inspire an almost religious following?
Mexican Bombings Recall 'Dirty War' of Decades Ago
 Jay Root
The first time Gabriel Cruz Sanchez vanished, Mexican police ransacked the suspected guerrilla leader's house and threatened to kill his entire family. That was more than 30 years ago. When Cruz Sanchez disappeared a second time, in May of this year, all hell broke loose.
Drug Trade, Once Passing By, Takes Root in Mexico
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
Times have changed. Today, Mexico is no longer just a transit country for drugs bound for the United States. It is a country of drug users as well.
Archbishop's Gay Plea
 Yakub Qureshi
An outspoken clergyman has hit out at opponents of gay tolerance in the Anglican Church. Carlos Touche-Porter, Archbishop of Mexico, said the church should become more inclusive during a meeting of gay and lesbian Christians in Manchester, England.
Mexico's Militia of Misses
 Bienvenue Ndahiriwe
For the first time in 31 years, the government of Mexico has taken steps to increase women's roles in its military. In fact, newly adopted laws enable women to apply to military schools for training in public administration, engineering, and other opportunities leading toward the highest ranks of the army. The new policy was met with mixed reactions.
Huge Crowds in Costa Rica Protest US Pact
 Reuters
More than 100,000 Costa Ricans, some dressed as skeletons, protested a U.S. trade pact on Sunday they say will flood their country with cheap farm goods and cause job losses.
Rabid Right Threatens Revolt
 Rachel Zoll
Some of the nation's most politically influential conservative Christians, alarmed by the prospect of a Republican presidential nominee who supports abortion rights, are considering backing a third-party candidate.
Blackwater USA: A Gang of Killers
 Paul Handley
The private security firm Blackwater USA has been involved in nearly 200 shootings in Iraq since 2005, according to a US Congress report that depicts the company's employees as dangerously out of control.
Increased Enforcement Disrupts Drug Supply From Mexico, White House Says
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
Mexico's crackdown on drug cartels and stepped-up U.S. border enforcement have disrupted the flow of illegal drugs and caused cocaine supply shortages in 37 U.S. cities, including Washington, according to a report released Tuesday by the White House drug policy office.
The Secrets of Intangible Wealth
 Ronald Bailey
What is intangible wealth, and how on earth is it measured? And what does it mean for the world's people - poor and rich? That's where the story gets interesting.
Border Deaths Rise 29% in Past Year
 David L. Teibel
They come by the hundreds of thousands, mostly honest people seeking better jobs than they can get in their homeland. And they die by the hundreds in Arizona's unforgiving desert.
Opening Eyes to Child Slavery
 Kathleen Parker
When you say slavery, most Americans think about what ended with the Civil War. With relief, we think: That was then. But slavery is, unfortunately, now. We call it "human trafficking" these days, an almost innocuous-sounding term, but it is slavery by any other name.
Will the GOP Become Extinct?
 David Espo
It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that "there's talk about us going the way of the Whigs," the 19th century political party long extinct.
A Towering Success for Community Activists
 Emilio Godoy
The power of organised civil society has overturned the plans announced by the government of the Mexican capital to build the Bicentennial Tower, which was to be the tallest skyscraper in Latin America.
Cloaked Lady Death
 Carlos Martinez
Despite its creeping certainty, death is a concept that most of its quarry find startling at the very least. At one superstitious extreme, there are those that consider even talk of it an open invitation to its lengthening shadow. At the other, a cult has recently grown up in Mexico that regards Death as something to be cherished and prayed to for all kinds of good fortune - in life.
Mexico’s Former President Is Under Investigation on Allegations of Financial Abuse
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
If former President Vicente Fox thought his retirement would be peaceful at his ranch house, swimming in the pool or strolling by the artificial lake and sumptuous gardens, then events this week have proved him wrong.
Venezuela: Anti-Domestic Violence Campaign Targets Men
 Humberto Márquez
If the coffee is cold, he goes ballistic, smashes the cup on the floor and lashes out at his partner. If she doesn’t come running when he calls, or their daughter cries, he shouts impatiently and hits her. These are some of the scenes in unprecedented TV spots now appearing in Venezuela.
Report Says Hussein Was Open to Exile Before 2003 Invasion
 Karen DeYoung & Michael Abramowitz
Less than a month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein signaled that he was willing to go into exile as long as he could take with him $1 billion and information on weapons of mass destruction, according to a report of a Feb. 22, 2003, meeting between President Bush and his Spanish counterpart published by a Spanish newspaper yesterday.
Budget Rapped in Probe of Mexico Blasts
 Héctor Tobar
Interior Minister Francisco Ramirez Acuña told a congressional hearing Tuesday that a series of sharp cutbacks at Mexico's top intelligence service has hindered authorities in their efforts against a leftist guerrilla group that has been bombing oil pipelines.
Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, a Dilemma of the Dead
 Susan Carroll
Many medical examiners and county officials along the U.S.-Mexico border face a complicated and delicate problem — what to do with dozens of John Does, many believed to be illegal immigrants, who end up in county coolers.
Why Many Immigrants Say 'We Are All Elvira' Now
 Larisa Casillas
The deportation of Elvira Arellano to Mexico has made her the face of a national debate on legalization. But as ongoing rallies and vigils demonstrate, she has captured the imagination of many immigrants, especially Latinos, not because her story is unusual but because it is so typical.
Death Penalty-Latin America: Broad Support for UN Moratorium
 Fabiana Frayssinet
Many Latin American governments have not yet adopted a position, or have not communicated one, but the majority trend in the region appears to be to support the resolution for a moratorium on the death penalty proposed by a number of countries to the United Nations General Assembly.
Rich Mexicans Keep Parallel Lives at Home, in US
 Eugene L. Meyer
Their motives are more than economic. They are also seeking a safe haven for themselves and their families, away from the threats of kidnapping, ransom and even murder that are routinely directed at wealthy Mexicans.
Mexico May be Unable to Stop Bombings
 Dudley Althaus
With the Mexican government finding it difficult to guard much of the country's petroleum pipeline network, preventing further attacks on it depends upon a national security apparatus that analysts warn may not be up to the task.
Rebels Support Attackers of Mexican Oil Pipelines
 Lisa J. Adams
A Mexican rebel group that waged a short-lived armed struggle against the government 13 years ago issued a declaration Monday in support of a Marxist group responsible for recent attacks on the country's oil and gas pipelines.
Mexican Consul Defends Country as Refugee Seekers Flock to Canada
 Roberta Pennington
The consular agency of Mexico in Leamington, Ont. defended its country's reputation Sunday after several recently-arrived Mexicans blamed their homeland's corrupt government, powerful criminal gangs and economically poor conditions as grounds for being granted refugee status in Canada.
Mexico Now One of World's Most Dangerous Countries
 Jay Root
Gangland-style murders and kidnappings reached record levels in Mexico during the first half of this year, a report from Mexico's Congress has found, making Mexico one of the world's most dangerous countries.
Weapons Trade Concerns Mexico
 Chris Roberts
The cartels that smuggle millions of dollars worth of drugs into the United States are able to work their trade, in part, because of weapons they get rather easily from the United States, according to Mexican and U.S. authorities.
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