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 News Around the Americas
Bush Braces U.S. for Sacrifice as Protesters Gather
 Jeremy Pelofsky
President George W. Bush, assailed by sagging poll numbers and criticism from anti-war protesters camped outside his ranch, called on Americans to show resolve and brace for additional sacrifice in Iraq.more »»»
Americans Recruiting Colombian Mercenaries for Iraq
 Pascale Mariani & Roméo Langlois
Swashbuckling, broken-in to anti-guerrilla fighting, less expensive than their American peers ... On an international mercenary market in full bloom, Colombians are more and more sought-after. Hence this bizarre ad posted by a certain Jeffrey Shippy on the Internet site iraqijobcenter.com.more »»»
In a State of Emergency, Border City Wonders Where is Emergency
 Ralph Vartabedian
Pressed against the Mexican border, Douglas, AZ in the high desert ranks as one of the nation's busiest gateways for illegal immigration. Encounters with illegal border crossers are so frequent that even Mayor Ray Borane hardly noticed the group of Mexicans hiding in the bushes recently outside the home he is building.more »»»
'Peace Mom' Returns to Texas War Protest
 Angela K. Brown
Even when she was in California taking care of her mother, Cindy Sheehan said part of her remained at the protest campsite she had set up outside President Bush's ranch. This week, Sheehan returned to "Camp Casey," named after her 24-year-old son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed last year in Iraq.more »»»
Bush Spotlights Military Mom In Response To Anti-War Protestors
 ABC News
US President George W. Bush contrasted a military mother whose five sons and husband have served in Iraq with anti-war protestors he said risked emboldening terrorists. "There are few things in life more difficult than seeing a loved one go off to war. Here, in Idaho, a mom named Tammy Pruett ... knows that feeling six times over," the president said in a speech to citizen soldiers here.more »»»
US Wants Changes in UN Agreement
 Colum Lynch
Less than a month before world leaders arrive in New York for a world summit on poverty and U.N. reform, the Bush administration has thrown the proceedings in turmoil with a call for drastic renegotiation of a draft agreement to be signed by presidents and prime ministers attending the event.more »»»
Origins, Immigration, Politics and Issues of a Growing Hispanic America
 Hispanic News
Today Hispanics are 14% of the U.S. population. About half were born outside the U.S., but most want to blend into American society. Hispanics tend to be Democrats, but President Bush grabbed a significant share of their votes in 2004. Education and jobs are top concerns.more »»»
Border Overhaul Planned: Security Chief Vows Crackdown on Smuggling
 Eric Lipton
Acknowledging public frustration over undocumented immigrants, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday that the federal government's border control efforts must be significantly strengthened.more »»»
New Mexico Governor Wants Mexican Village Razed
 Reuters
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will seek the bulldozing of a Mexican village to improve border security at a meeting with the governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua this week.more »»»
Speaker Hopes to Help Image of Schwarzenegger
 Ed Mendel
Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, who plans to meet with Mexican President Vicente Fox and other officials in Mexico City this week, said he wants to change the perception that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is "anti-Mexican."more »»»
Bush: "Hanging Loose" and Again Rejects Sheehan
 Daniela Deane
President Bush said Tuesday that anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan, who wants US troops to be immediately withdrawn from Iraq, was advocating a policy that would "weaken the United States" and was not representative of the views of most US military families.more »»»
Court Affirms Gay Couples' Parental Status
 Henry Weinstein & Lee Romney
The California Supreme Court became the first in the nation to grant full parenting rights and obligations to gays and lesbians who have children. In three closely watched cases, the justices set rules in an area where changes in family structure and advances in technology have outpaced the evolution of legal principles.more »»»
Protesters Will Follow Bush War Tour
 Reuters
President Bush, trying to counter the message of anti-war vigils outside his ranch and growing public discontent with Iraq, left Texas on Monday for the first of two speeches on the war and the September 11 attacks, but more protesters await him.more »»»
Pat Robertson Called for the Assassination of Venezuela's President
 Media Matters for America
Pat Robertson, host of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.more »»»
Healthcare Is Migrating South of the Border
 Richard Marosi
Thousands of Latinos who live near the border are taking advantage of a benefit increasingly offered by their U.S. employers: cheaper healthcare in Mexico. About 160,000 California workers are getting their annual checkups and having surgeries through health networks south of the border, insurers say.more »»»
US Senator Wants Improved Venezuela Relations
 Associated Press
A Republican senator asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Friday to lower his rhetoric against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to help win Venezuela's support for combating illegal narcotics. Sen. Arlen Specter reminded Rumsfeld that the US needs Venezuela's help against drug trafficking in South America.more »»»
Illegals Dying at Record Rate in Arizona Desert
 Dennis Wagner
The smell of death floated on a sweltering August breeze near the Mexican border, emanating from an immigrant's corpse. He had expired beneath a mesquite tree 45 miles southwest of Tucson, apparently trying to escape the Sonoran sun, trying to get to America.more »»»
Pope Seeks Immunity in Texas Abuse Case
 Nicole Winfield
The lawyer who is suing Pope Benedict XVI in Texas for allegedly covering up the sexual abuse of children by a seminarian said he would challenge the US diplomatic recognition of the Vatican if the pope is given immunity in the case.more »»»
Like Old Times: US Warns Latin Americans against Leftists
 David S. Cloud
During stops in their visit this week to South America, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his aides warned of what they consider to be troublemaking by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and Washington's old cold war foe, Fidel Castro.more »»»
Bush Reauthorizes Shoot to Kill in Columbia
 Associated Press
President Bush authorized the United States to continue helping Colombian authorities ground or even shoot down planes suspected of carrying illegal drugs. The program was put on hold in 2001 when a small plane carrying American missionaries was shot down over Peru.more »»»
US Targets Entities Tied to Mexican Drug Cartels
 treas.gov
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has identified 30 companies and individuals associated with two Mexican drug-trafficking organizations, in accordance with the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (known as the "Kingpin Act").more »»»
US Vigils Support Anti-War Mother
 Reuters
Anti-war protesters held candles, sang, and chanted in vigils across the country on Wednesday in support of Cindy Sheehan, who has camped out near President George W. Bush's ranch to urge him to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq, where her son was killed a year ago.more »»»
Guest-Worker Plan Backed In Survey
 Toby Eckert
With pressure growing on Congress and the White House to impose tighter controls on immigration, a survey released yesterday showed that four in 10 Mexicans would immigrate to the United States if given the chance and more than half would consider participating in a guest-worker program like the one proposed by President Bush.more »»»
The 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America
 Viveca Novak
From music to politics to business, Hispanics are remaking America. Here's a list of the 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America leading the Latino charge into the 21st century.more »»»
Antiwar Protester Vows to Continue Vigil Despite Vandalism at Texas Site
 Antiwar Protester Vows to Continue Vigil Despite Vandalism at Texas Site
Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who has set up a vigil near President Bush's ranch, said that she was "very disturbed" that a local resident had mowed down hundreds of small crosses bearing the names of other dead American soldiers, and that her now 10-day protest was "only the beginning" of what she described as a growing national movement to bring all American men and women home from the war.more »»»
US State Keeps 90-Day Emergency Despite Mexico Ire
 Agence France Presse
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson will not lift a state of emergency in part of his state bordering Mexico, despite the displeasure of the neighboring country, a spokeswoman said.more »»»
Gay Mexican Granted Asylum in US
 David Usborne
A federal appeals court in the United States has granted asylum to a homosexual man with Aids from Mexico on the grounds that if he was sent back to his country he could face persecution. The ruling, comes against the background of US State Department reports of widespread harassment of homosexuals in Mexico.more »»»
Farrakhan: Mexican President was Right to Say Immigrants Take Jobs Blacks Don't Want
 AP
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Mexican President Vicente Fox was right to say that Mexican immigrants take jobs "that not even blacks want." Although Fox was sharply criticized for his remarks by some black leaders, Farrakhan said that blacks do not want to pick fruit because they already "picked enough cotton."more »»»
'Vanity Fair' Rips Media 'Conspiracy' in Covering Up Role in Plame Scandal
 Greg Mitchell
In an article in the September issue of Vanity Fair, Michael Wolff, in probing the Plame/CIA leak scandal, rips those in the news media who knew that Karl Rove was one of the leakers but refused to expose what would have been "one of the biggest stories of the Bush years." Not only that, "they helped cover it up."more »»»
American Graffiti: Signs of the Times
 Rupert Cornwell
Feel like getting something off your chest against that iniquitous warmonger in the White House? Well, you can write a letter to your newspaper, tune in to liberal talk radio, or click to a reliably leftie website. Alternatively, you can take a drive on the highways of the US.more »»»
War Mothers, Bush Are Worlds Apart
 Nedra Pickler
They were just a few miles away from each other Thursday, standing under a hot midday sun to express their concern about US troops dying in Iraq. But President Bush and the grieving mother outside his ranch were worlds apart on how best to honor the dead.more »»»
Mother's Protest at Bush's Doorstep Raises the Stakes
 Edwin Chen & Dana Calvo
The 48-year-old mother of Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, who was killed in an ambush in Baghdad last year, is consumed by the kind of grief that turns into a furious determination to do something - in her case, to confront the president and force him to explain why her son died.more »»»
Cuba Calls on U.S. to Release Espionage Suspects
 AP
Parliament Speaker Ricardo Alarcon called on the U.S. government to release five accused Cuban spies serving long prison terms after a federal appeals court threw out their convictions and sentences.more »»»
Venezuela Warns Against US Invasion
 The Australian Associated Press
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has told thousands of visiting students that if US forces are to invade his South American country, they will be soundly defeated. The US government has strongly denied Chavez's claims that it is considering military action against Cuba's closest ally in the Americas.more »»»
Kansas Board Advances a Draft Critical of Evolution
 Associated Press
The latest draft says the board is not advocating the teaching of "intelligent design," which contends that some features of the natural world are best explained by an intelligent creator, not evolution. But the language favored by the board does come from advocates of intelligent design.more »»»
Court Overturns 5 Cubans' Spying Convictions in US
 The South Florida Sun-Sentinel
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the criminal convictions and sentences of five men accused of spying for the Cuban government, ruling that anti-Castro sentiment in Miami prevented them from receiving a fair trial in 2001.more »»»
Illegal Alien Travels Globe
 Don Aines
One of two illegal aliens arrested for trafficking in forged identity documents passed through several countries and was arrested twice after entering this country before making his way to Chambersburg, according to a statement he gave police.more »»»
US Tests New Visa Checking System
 dawn.com
US immigration officials are testing a new visa program for foreign visitors that embeds tracking technology into the documentation that also can access private information, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Tuesday.more »»»
Grand Jury Indicts Mexican Crime Boss
 Jim Kouri
A federal grand jury in Denver indicted a Mexican man who ran an international criminal organization responsible for the illegal production and distribution of counterfeit identification documents in cities throughout the United States.more »»»
9/11 Group Says White House Has Not Provided Files
 Philip Shenon
The White House has failed to turn over any of the information requested by the 10 members of the disbanded Sept. 11 commission in their renewed, unofficial investigation into whether the government is doing enough to prevent terrorist attacks on American soil, commission members said.more »»»
Nagasaki Prepares for A-Bomb Anniversary
 Eric Talmadge
On the eve of the anniversary Tuesday of Nagasaki's devastation 60 years ago by the "Fat Man" atomic bomb, a steady stream of tourists flowed past the horrific exhibits at the city's memorial museum.more »»»
New Tool Helps Find Missing Migrants
 Leslie Berestein
The long-distance call came in to the Mexican Consulate in San Diego the first day of June, the caller's request all too familiar. "Please," said the woman on the line, calling from Mexico City. "I need your help. I am looking for my brother."more »»»
Fugitives From Mexico Hide In The Bustle Of Los Angeles
 Matt Krasnowski
The killers cross the U.S.-Mexico border and sometimes enjoy freedom for years. But these fugitives from the law aren't border-jumpers heading south. As the recent arrest of one of Mexico's most notorious fugitives at a modest home outside Los Angeles showed, some criminals escape justice by heading north.more »»»
Justice Stevens Criticizes Death Penalty
 Gina Holland
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens issued an unusually stinging criticism of capital punishment Saturday evening, telling lawyers that he was disturbed by "serious flaws." Stevens stopped short of calling for an end to the death penalty, but he said there are many problems in the way it is used.more »»»
Thousands Mark Hiroshima A-Bomb 60th Anniversary
 George Nishiyama
Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Saturday to renew calls for the abolition of nuclear arms on the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.more »»»
Malnutrition Is Ravaging Niger's Children
 Michael Wines
At sunset Wednesday, in an unmarked grave in a cemetery rimmed by millet fields, the men of this mud-walled village buried Baby Boy Saminou, the latest casualty of the hunger ravaging 3.6 million farmers and herders in this destitute nation.more »»»
Activists Hope to Boost Participation in 2006
 Wire Services
Activists were discussing ways Friday to encourage millions of Mexicans living abroad to cast the country's first absentee ballots during next summer's presidential elections.more »»»
Ex-Prosecutor: Monroe Wasn't Suicidal
 Associated Press
On the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death, a former prosecutor has unveiled what he says are notes of her secret confessions to a psychiatrist that show her as anything but suicidal.more »»»
CNN Suspends Robert Novak
 Associated Press
CNN suspended commentator Robert Novak indefinitely after he swore and walked off the set Thursday during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville. The exchange during CNN's "Inside Politics" came during a discussion of Florida's Senate campaign.more »»»
Humans to Join Canada-Mexico Butterfly Trek
 Associated Press
The annual arrival of millions of Monarch butterflies from the forests of eastern Canada to the central Mexican mountains for the winter is an aesthetic and scientific wonder. And this year a crew of two plans to accompany them on their 3,415 mile-journey.more »»»
Bush Holds Latin American Ally at Ranch
 Deb Riechmann
President Bush has no better partner in Latin America than the leader of Colombia so it's not surprising that Alvaro Uribe was invited to see the Texas ranch where Bush likes to conduct homespun diplomacy.more »»»
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