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 News Around the Americas
For 1,000 or More Homeless in Hawaii, Beaches Are the Best Option
 Janis L. Magin
Homelessness in Hawaii has become so pervasive that the governor has assigned a state employee to work full time at getting people off the beaches and into transitional housing. Once there, they have access to rent assistance programs and low-income housing.
Portland Consul Appointed to Mexican Cabinet
 Thelma Guerrero
Fernando Sánchez Ugarte, the consul general for the Consulate of México in Portland, has accepted a Cabinet position under newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderón.
Water War Brewing Along Mexican Border
 David Kravets
Bush administration lawyers are urging a federal appeals court to allow a section of a canal separating California and Mexico to be lined with cement to stop millions of gallons of water from seeping south of the border each year.
US Democrats Who Opposed War Move Into Key Positions
 Walter Pincus
Although given little public credit at the time, or since, many of the 126 House Democrats who spoke out and voted against the October 2002 resolution that gave President Bush authority to wage war against Iraq have turned out to be correct in their warnings about the problems a war would create.
Bush Accepts Bolton's UN Resignation
 Terence Hunt
Unable to win Senate confirmation, UN Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his recess appointment expires soon, the White House said Monday. Bolton's nomination has languished in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for more than a year, blocked by Democrats and several Republicans.
US Jury Convicts Driver in Deaths of Illegal Immigrants
 AFP
A US federal jury found a Jamaican man guilty in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants who perished in the truck he was driving in sweltering temperatures near the US-Mexico border.
Chavez Claims Victory in Venezuela
 Associated Press
President Hugo Chavez won re-election by a wide margin Sunday, giving the firebrand leftist six more years to redistribute Venezuela's vast oil wealth to the poor and press his campaign to counter U.S. influence in Latin America and beyond.
Mexican Berm Near Columbus, N.M., Draws Concern
 Associated Press
American officials are concerned about a mile-long earthen berm constructed on the Mexican side of the border, apparently in response to flooding in Palomas, Mexico, in August.
'Dog' Chapman Gets Day In Mexican Court
 NBC10.com
Duane "Dog" Chapman is waiting to hear whether a Mexican federal court will set him free or order his pending extradition and criminal case to proceed. The TV bounty hunter is charged under Mexican law with "deprivation of liberty" for his June 2003 capture of fugitive convicted rapist Andrew Luster, the Max Factor heir, in Puerto Vallarta.
Adviser: Clinton Actively Weighs '08 Bid
 John Heilprin
Democratic jockeying for the White House in 2008 intensified on Sunday with Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh taking the first official step toward a run and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gauging support among fellow New York lawmakers.
In Chicago, A Tale of Two Mexican Consulates
 Cheryl Corley
Mexico's recent political strife has migrated to Chicago... in a quieter form. No public fisticuffs, no brawling over the installation of President Felipe Calderon. Instead, supporters of opposition leader Manuel Lopez Obrador's PRD party have set up what they call an "alternate consulate."
Mexico's Arms Law Also Trips Up Border Agents
 Arthur H. Rotstein
Prominent signs spell out the warning on roads leading to ports of entry into Mexico: "Weapons and ammunition illegal in Mexico." But despite the postings, each year a number of careless or forgetful Americans fail to see the signs or to heed the advice, and wind up under arrest in Mexico for days or even months.
Chavez Reassures Venezuelans He Is Not Next Castro
 Christian Oliver
Anti-U.S. President Hugo Chavez on Friday denied he would turn Venezuela into another Cuba, countering his rival's charges before Sunday's election that his goal is a dictatorial one-party state.
Pot Bust On Border Is Massive
 Jesse Bogan
Authorities suspect they dealt a big blow to a "major" drug trafficking organization by discovering nearly 9 tons of marijuana, the largest stockpile in recent history in Starr County.
Hispanic to Head House Intelligence Panel
 Jonathan Weisman
House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi named Rep. Silvestre Reyes to chair the House intelligence committee yesterday, skipping over the two most senior Democrats on the panel to hand the sensitive post to a Vietnam War veteran and former U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Socialist Senator to Push Congress From Left
 Reuters
From pressing for hearings on Iraq to probing no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton Co., America's first socialist senator aims to give Congress a hard tilt to the left.
Venezuela's Chávez Nears a Victory Fed by Free Stew
 Sara Miller Llana
While Mr. Chávez's strident anti-Americanism has caused ripples abroad, those with the power to vote him into another six-year term this Sunday care more about his social missions than his international mediations.
Kidnappings Raise Fears Near US Border
 Elizabeth White
For residents of Laredo, Texas, it was a terrifying yet familiar tale: Three more Texans vanished in the dangerous Mexican countryside across the Rio Grande, abducted amid reports of escalating violence between warring drug cartels.
Bridges Already Hit By Holiday Bustle
 Louie Gilot
As far as border officials are concerned, the holiday season has already started. Customs and Border Protection officials are already seeing the annual 30 percent increase in bridge traffic from Mexico.
Violence Forces UW to End Study-Abroad Program in Oaxaca
 Associated Press
The University of Washington has ended its study-abroad program in Oaxaca, Mexico, a week early because of anti-government violence there.
Pro-Peace Symbol Forces Win Battle in Colorado Town
 Kirk Johnson
Last week, a couple were threatened with fines of $25 a day by their homeowners' association unless they removed a four-foot wreath shaped like a peace symbol from the front of their house.
Judge Strikes Bush's Terror List
 Associated Press
A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
US Mexicans Haunted By Repatriation
 Linda Pressly
Seventy years ago, more than a million people of Mexican origin left the US in a little known "deportation frenzy" that still haunts many of them today. "They wanted us out of the country. I didn't understand why when we'd been born here."
Irked Mexicans Open Alternate Consulate
 Oscar Avila
The fallout from Mexico's contested presidential election, in which the losing candidate has refused to accept defeat and even named his own Cabinet, has found its way to Chicago.
Castro Too Sick to Attend His Own Party
 Associated Press
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro told hundreds of admirers who traveled here for his 80th birthday party that he was not well enough to meet with them on Tuesday.
Bush's Father to Attend Calderon Inauguration
 Reuters
President George W. Bush on Tuesday named his father, former president George Bush, to lead a U.S. delegation to attend the inauguration of Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon.
War Protestor's Public Suicide in Chicago Went Unnoticed by Media
 Associated Press
Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family. On his Web site, the 52-year-old experimental musician who'd fought with depression even penned his obituary.
22,000 Protest the "School of the Americas"
 Elliot Minor
Thousands of demonstrators paraded, chanted and raised white crosses Sunday outside the Army's Fort Benning as they continued a 17-year-long effort to close a military school they blame for human rights abuses in Latin America.
Leftist Economist Wins Ecuador Election
 Associated Press
A leftist economist who called for Ecuador to cut ties with international lenders appeared to have easily won the presidency of this poor, politically unstable Andean nation, strengthening South America's tilt to the left.
Biden: Blame Immigration Woes on Mexico
 Jim Davenport
Sen. Joe Biden, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's incoming chairman, wants to get tough with Mexico, calling it an "erstwhile democracy" with a "corrupt system" responsible for illegal immigration and drug problems in the U.S.
U.S. Crackdown Sends Meth Labs to Mexico
 Richard Marosi
The methamphetamine laboratories that once plagued California's hinterlands and powered a national explosion of drug abuse have been replaced by an increasing supply from Mexico, U.S. law enforcement officials say.
Immigration Reform not Certainty with Democrats
 Daniel González
Comprehensive immigration reform is not a certainty under the newly elected Democratic Congress because of deep political divisions, pressure from labor unions and re-election concerns.
Chavez Pledges to Dedicate Re-Election Victory to Cuba's Castro
 Associated Press
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told a "red tide" of hundreds of thousands of supporters on Sunday that he will dedicate his expected re-election victory to the ailing leader of communist Cuba, Fidel Castro.
US Involved in Iraq Longer Than WW II
 Tom Raum
The war in Iraq has now lasted longer than the U.S. involvement in the war that President Bush's father fought in, World War II. As of Sunday, the conflict in Iraq has raged for three years and just over eight months.
Gates Pushed for Bombing of Sandinistas
 Julian E. Barnes
Robert M. Gates, President Bush's nominee to lead the Pentagon, advocated a bombing campaign against Nicaragua in 1984 in order to "bring down" the leftist government, according to a declassified memo released by a nonprofit research group.
U.S. Border Agent Briefly Held in Mexico
 Associated Press
An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was jailed for more than a day after Mexican border officials found 650 rounds of ammunition in his car, authorities said Saturday.
US Could Bomb Iran Nuclear Sites in 2007
 Agence France-Presse
President George W. Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bomb Iran's nuclear facilities next year, political analysts in Washington agree. "I think he is going to do it," John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a military issues think tank, told AFP.
Cuba Accuses US for Adjustment Act and Blockade
 Prensa Latina
Cuba ratified Thursday charges brought against US of politicizing migratory matters and encouraging illegal migration from the island as a way to "fabricate" a bilateral crisis and justify a military confrontation.
CIA Role Claim in Kennedy Killing
 BBC News
New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been brought to light. The evidence was shown in a report by Shane O'Sullivan, broadcast on BBC Newsnight.
US Immigration Bill is Still Far Off
 Nicole Gaouette
For US Democrats pondering the challenges of overhauling immigration policy during next year's Congress, incoming members like Claire McCaskill provide an early warning.
Top 10 Myths About Thanksgiving
 Rick Shenkman
To see what the first Thanksgiving was like you have to go to: Texas. Texans claim the first Thanksgiving in America actually took place in little San Elizario, a community near El Paso, in 1598 - twenty-three years before the Pilgrims' festival.
Peruvian Archaeologists Excavate Tombs
 Martin Mejia
Archaeologists said Tuesday they have unearthed 22 graves in northern Peru containing a trove of pre-Inca artifacts, including the first "tumi" ceremonial knives ever discovered by archaeologists rather than looted by thieves.
Migrants Told to Boycott Mexico
 Paul Chavez
"Our voice is our money! Stop the repression!" Written on Spanish-language fliers distributed in downtown Los Angeles, the slogans urged Mexicans working in the United States to stop sending money home for three days to protest the Mexican government's crackdown on dissenters in the southern state of Oaxaca.
Kissinger Says Victory in Iraq Is Not Possible
 Brian Knowlton
Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who regularly advises President Bush on Iraq, said that a full military victory was no longer possible there.
Key US Democrat Wants to Reinstate Draft
 Associated Press
Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 under a bill the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says he will introduce next year.
Tunnels Act as Highways for Migrants
 Richard Marosi
Inside the largest known tunnels on the border migrants stumble blindly through toxic puddles and duck low-flying bats. Methamphetamine-addicted assailants lurk. And young men working as drug mules lug burlap sacks filled with contraband.
Contingent to Protest at Fort Benning
 Joseph Gerth
About 80 people from Louisville will join some 19,000 people from around the United States at Fort Benning, Ga., this weekend to protest against U.S. foreign policy and to call for closing the training facility once known as the School of the Americas.
LatAm Officials Vow to Fight Corruption
 Xinhua
The Latin American governments vowed on Friday in Guatemala City to fight corruption and promised to institutionalize transparency, Mexican media reported.
U.S. Wants Probe of Journalist's Killing in Mexico
 Dudley Althaus
In the wake of prosecutors' allegations that leftist activists killed American journalist Brad Will in southern Oaxaca state last month, U.S. officials are pushing for a full investigation.
New Mexico Governor Pleads Illegal Immigrant's Case
 Associated Press
Gov. Bill Richardson has asked President Bush to come to the aid of an illegal immigrant who has taken refuge in a Chicago church to avoid being deported to Mexico.
Plame Wilson v. White House: Round 1
 Jason Leopold
Let the legal wrangling begin. The showdown between the White House, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, a former covert operative for the CIA whose identity was unmasked by Bush administration officials, entered its first stage this week.
Journalists' Murders in Iraq and Mexico Condemned
 United Nations
The head of the United Nations body mandated to protect press freedom today deplored the murder of yet one more Iraqi journalist, saying it was vital to bring an end to “the outrageous campaign of bloodshed” against media professionals in the violence-racked country.
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