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Clinton Reassures Mexico About Its Image
 Mark Landler
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, continuing her show of solidarity with Mexicans in their struggle against drug trafficking, toured a high-tech police base in Mexico City on Thursday and greeted diplomats from the American Consulate in this northern city, which was sprayed with gunfire last fall by a suspected drug gang member.
Suit Accuses Union Pacific of Role in Drug Shipments
 Greg Moran
Federal prosecutors filed civil lawsuits against the Union Pacific railroad company recently seeking $37 million in penalties it says the company owes for allowing loads of drugs to be smuggled on its cars into the country, mostly through Calexico.
Clinton Visit to Mexico Has Aura of Drug Intervention
 Ali Gharib
The Barack Obama administration announced this week that it will augment already massive foreign aid to its southern neighbour in a bid to help Mexico fight cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S., as well as sending a series of high-level U.S. officials to Mexico to consult with their counterparts.
Obama's Other War: Fighting Mexico's Drug Lords
 Tim Padgett
The convenient and long-standing tradition south of the border is to blame Mexico's problems on the U.S. It can often be justified when the matter is the drug-trafficking violence now terrorizing much of Mexico.
 Drug War is Challenge for US and Mexico
 Matthew Price
Ciudad Juarez has been called "the most dangerous city on earth". Driving in from the US side of the border, it doesn't feel like that. You simply pay $2.25 at the toll-booth, and cross the bridge over the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.
Cartels' Guns Flow From US
 Leslie Berestein, Sandra Dibble & David Hasemyer
After a particularly brutal shootout turned a quiet Tijuana cul-de-sac into a war zone last October, leaving one Mexican soldier and four drug cartel suspects dead, investigators combing through the carnage found the weapons.
Guatemala and Other Central American Countries Becoming More Violent than Mexico
 Michael Webster
Guatemala has become the most violent country in Latin America, averaging more than 20 homicides daily. 49 minors were murdered during January of this year and 58 during February.
Mexican Drug Cartel Violence Spills Over, Alarming US
 Randal C. Archibold
In the past few years, the cartels and other drug trafficking organizations have extended their reach across the United States and into Canada.
Mexico Progressing on Basis of Freedom and Justice
 Presidencia de la República
Mexico is progressing on the basis of freedom, justice and development which Federal Government promotes in each and every one of its actions, declares President Felipe Calderón, during his inauguration of the Tecpan de Galeana bypass on Guerrero's Costa Grande.
Violence Continues As Drug Wars Rage In Mexico
 Jason Beaubien
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to Mexico this week, high on her agenda is the Mexican drug war that threatens to destabilize parts of the U.S.-Mexico border.
White House Rallying To Combat Mexico's Drug War
 Brian Naylor
The drug-related violence in northern Mexico — and fears that it will spill into the U.S. — is a subject of increasing concern to the Obama administration.
Indentured Servants, Circa 2009
 Barbara Koeppel
Feeding on this and last years' gigantic job losses and fear of more to come, anti-immigrant anger is exploding across the U.S. Thus, Nativists like Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio are nudged to over-the-top nastiness.
Historic Power Shift in El Salvador
 The Real News Network
Just over 17 years since the 1992 Peace Accords brought an end to El Salvador's vicious civil war, the country has seen its first peaceful transfer of power.
In US, Ill Migrants Left to Languish Behind Bars
 Ben Case
Clinical staff at U.S. immigration detention centres systematically abuse detainees in their charge, according to two reports by Human Rights Watch and the Florida Immigration Advocacy Centre (FIAC) that describe the medical care system in these facilities as 'dangerously inadequate'.
Prosecutors Seek Appeal in Dismissal of US Gun Case
 James C. McKinley Jr.
A judge’s decision underscores how difficult it is in the United States to convict a gun dealer of wrongdoing in connection with the illegal flow of weapons to Mexico.
US Passes Mandatory National Service Bill
 Paul Joseph Watson
The House passed a bill this week which includes disturbing language indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national service programs as fears about President Barack Obama’s promised “civilian national security force” intensify.
US Marijuana Legalisation Creates Buzz
 Matthew Cardinale
Due perhaps in part to the country's economic woes, but also a major shift in political culture, discussion of marijuana legalisation has risen to a level of openness and prominence previously unseen in the United States.
The Thomas White Affair
 Matt Smith
Recent Palm Springs arrests cast doubt on the prosecution of Thomas Frank White, once a famed San Francisco stockbroker and philanthropist, facing charges in Puerto Vallarta that he invited boys to a mansion there so he could have sex with them.
US Focus Shifts to Flow of Cash, Arms into Mexico
 Carolyn Lochhead
California lawmakers and the Obama administration have begun to shift U.S. border policy with Mexico, abruptly changing focus from illegal immigration to the flow of cash and weapons from the United States that is fueling a savage war between the Mexican government and powerful drug cartels.
Protests Greet Bush in Canada
 Jeffrey Jones
More than 100 protesters chanted "war criminal" and flung shoes in Calgary on Tuesday, angry that former U.S. President George W. Bush was in the Canadian city to give his first speech since leaving the White House.
Mexican President Calderón to the USA: Mexico is not Ungovernable
 Eduardo Ortega & Isabel Becerril
President Felipe Calderón expressed deep regrets that U.S. authorities and the media have pursued a misleading campaign against Mexico on matters of safety/security.
Watchdog: Press Freedom Deteriorated in Americas
 Associated Press
Freedom of the press has deteriorated in the Americas, with Mexico among the most dangerous countries in the region to be a journalist, the Inter American Press Association said Monday.
GAO: Fake Passports Easy to Get
 Mike Ahlers
A congressional investigation has exposed gaping holes in security eight years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, a US government report says.
Mexicans Weary of Drug War
 Chris Hawley
Three years ago, promises by President Calderón's National Action Party to crack down on drug cartels sounded like a good idea. But as congressional elections approach and Mexico staggers under an unprecedented wave of shootings, kidnappings and beheadings in areas near the U.S. border, many Mexicans have their doubts.
Red Cross Described "Torture" at CIA Jails
 Joby Warrick, Peter Finn & Julie Tate
The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document.
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
 Mark Danner
ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody by the International Committee of the Red Cross - 43 pp., February 2007
Mexico Says 'Emo' Youths Face Discrimination
 Associated Press
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says that followers of the youth music and fashion trend known as "emo" have suffered discrimination and violence, and recommends sensitivity training to prevent it.
Why is the US in Afghanistan?
 The Real News Network
Recorded live at the Gladstone in Toronto, a Real News panel takes on the Afghan war.
Election Dirty Tricks Again in Washington and El Salvador
 Robert Naiman
Last week, more than 30 Members of Congress joined Rep. Raul Grijalva in asking President Obama to affirm US neutrality in El Salvador's presidential election. But there has been no high-level response from the Obama administration.
Brazil: Child Rape Case Revives Debate on Abortion
 Fabiana Frayssinet
The case of a nine-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather has revived the debate in Brazil on sexual violence, the need to reform the abortion law, and the shortcomings of the health system when it comes to dealing with the few cases in which abortion is legal.
Cancer Victim at Peace with Return to Mexico
 Oscar Avila
After two years of cancer treatment in the United States during which she used another's woman's identity, Mariana de la Torre is back on a dusty plot of land in this tiny town, a refuge that was her world during her early years.
New Mexico Legislature Repeals Death Penalty
 Agence France-Presse
The New Mexico Senate voted to abolish capital punishment, a measure already approved by the lower House that Governor Bill Richardson must sign before it goes into effect, the Senate said on its website.
President Calderón Calls for Joint Responsibility from US in Fighting Organized Crime
 Presidencia de la República
President Felipe Calderón declared that Federal Government is reinforcing the state's authority throughout the country to combat organized crime, adding that his administration is determined to eliminate this problem the country is suffering as a result of being next to the world's largest drug consumer and arms supplier.
Pay Teenagers Not to Get Pregnant, Republican Says
 John Byrne
The man who dubbed Vice President Joe Biden a socialist last September for arguing that paying taxes is "patriotic" appears to have some government redistribution ideas of his own.
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