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Obama Set to Unveil Mexico Border Drugs/Guns Plan
 Randall Mikkelsen
President Barack Obama is poised to announce as early as Tuesday his plan to send more agents and equipment to the U.S.-Mexican border to fight violent trafficking in drugs, guns and money, government sources said.
US Protesters Mark Milestone
 Donna St. George
Thousands of demonstrators marked the sixth anniversary of the war in Iraq with an impassioned protest of the nation's military policies this weekend, demanding that President Obama bring U.S. troops home.
 Obama's Weekly Address: A Budget Equal to the Task Before Us
 White House Blog
The President reflects on lessons from his time spent outside Washington recently, which only reinforced the core principles in his budget. The budget will be his central focus throughout this week.
US, Mexican Security Chiefs to Meet on Gun Trade
 Randall Mikkelsen
U.S. and Mexican security officials will strategize next month on fighting the arms trade fueling Mexico's bloody drug war, but a U.S. ban on assault rifles favored by the traffickers will not be on the agenda.
US is Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels
 James C. McKinley Jr.
The gun laws in the United States allow the sale of multiple military-style rifles to American citizens without reporting the sales to the government, and the Mexicans search relatively few cars and trucks going south across their border.
Israel Troops Admit Gaza Abuses
 BBC News
An Israeli military college has printed damning soldiers' accounts of the killing of civilians and vandalism during recent operations in Gaza.
Obama Wants to Shift Money, Resources to SW Border
 Eileen Sullivan & Devlin Barrett
The Obama administration is preparing to send federal agents to the Southwest border as reinforcements in the fight against Mexican drug cartels, even as officials consider taking money from one immigration enforcement program and using it to fight cartel-related crime.
Alarm on Mexico Rises as Clinton Readies Trip
 Gary Martin
Growing violence along the border spurred by gun smuggling from the United States was the focus of Senate hearings this week in advance of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's trip to Mexico.
Bush: We Must Support Obama
 Rob Gillies
Former President George W. Bush, making his first public speech since leaving office in January, says he wants Barack Obama to succeed and that it's "essential" to support the new leader.
US Navy Jet Violates Airspace of Mexico, Officials Confirm
 San Diego Union-Tribune
A Navy EA-6B Prowler aircraft briefly violated Mexican airspace while operating off that country's coast last week, Navy officials confirmed yesterday.
Rights Group Urges New Mexico to Ban Death Penalty
 Agence France-Presse
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Monday urged New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to sign a bill which passed in the state's legislature last week abolishing capital punishment.
Former Guerrillas Win Power in El Salvador
 Catherine Bremer
El Salvador's former Marxist guerrillas, who fought one of the bitterest conflicts of the Cold War, finally won power through the ballot box after a tight election victory over their right-wing civil war foes.
Obama Open to Military Help for Mexico; Experts Urge Caution
 Marisa Taylor & Nancy Youssef
As the Pentagon eyes a bigger role in Mexico's drug war, the military's efforts to open the door to a new relationship with its southern neighbor risks alienating the Mexican military, which has long had a strained relationship with its counterpart, experts said.
US Drops 'Enemy Combatant' as Basis for Detention
 Randall Mikkelsen
The Obama administration has dropped the classification "enemy combatant," and will use international law to determine if someone can be detained.
Obama Sets New Course at the UN
 Haider Rizvi
After nearly a decade of an often tense and estranged relationship with the United Nations, Washington appears to be taking a much more conciliatory and multilateral approach to the world body.
US Nabs and Returns Murderer to Mexico
 Jim Kouri
A man wanted by the Mexican government for his involvement in several murders, robbery, kidnapping and ties to organized crime was escorted back to Mexico by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and turned over to authorities in Mexico City.
U.S. Police Seize Guns Bound for Mexico
 Tim Gaynor
U.S. border police have arrested four men and seized three shipments of guns, ammunition and weapons parts bound for Mexico, authorities said this week, weapons that would likely have been used by warring drug cartels.
Clinton to Tackle Drug Violence in Trip to Mexico
Agence France-Presse
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Mexico later this month to tackle drug violence, a spokesman said Friday, amid talk here of sending troops to the border to prevent a spillover.
Obama's Weekly Address: Reversing a Troubling Trend in Food Safety
 White House Blog
In this week's address, the President discusses how the government should be taking care of certain aspects of American's lives, such as the safety behind the foods we eat and the medicines we take.
Argentina's Bold New Law on Violence Against Women
 Marcela Valente
Argentina now has an ambitious new law to prevent, punish and eradicate physical, psychological and economic violence against women, in both the private and public spheres. But the big challenge, say experts, will be to put it into practice.
Is the US Giving Colombian "Drug Lords" A Free Pass on Worse Crimes?
 Ali Gharib
Yet another of Colombia’s top paramilitary leaders was extradited to the U.S. Thursday to be brought up on drug trafficking charges despite the objections of some rights groups and questions raised by Colombian politicians visiting Washington.
Pundits Hope for Renaissance in US-LatAm Ties
 Jim Lobe
While U.S. relations with Latin America hover near their lowest point since the end of the Cold War, the election of President Barack Obama "has opened the way for a new U.S. approach" to the region, according to the latest report just released by the Inter-American Dialogue.
US Congress Passes Spending Bill, Eases Cuba Curbs
 Agence France-Presse
The US Senate late Tuesday passed a 410-billion-dollar package that pays for government operations until October 1 and eases Cold War-inspired restrictions on Cuba.
Crowds Protest Around World for Freedom in Tibet
 Associated Press
Tibetans and their supporters marched through the city and elsewhere Tuesday, saying they wanted to speak up for a silenced people on the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that forced the Dalai Lama into exile.
US Lawmakers Concerned About Mexico Drug Violence
 Tabassum Zakaria
U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday said they feared that ferocious Mexican drug gang wars might spread across the border into the United States.
Can US "Reset" Relations With Colombia?
 Robert Naiman
President Obama wants, quite reasonably, to "reset" relations with Russia. He also said, quite reasonably, he would "go through the federal budget line by line, programs that don't work, we cut." US relations with Colombia also need to be reset.
South American Nations Integrating Defense Ministries
 Prensa Latina
Defense ministers from 12 Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are to analyze cooperation issues here on Monday and Tuesday in the first South American Defense Council (SADC).
Bolivia Expels US Diplomat, Alleging Conspiracy
 Paola Flores
President Evo Morales on Monday ordered a U.S. diplomat to leave Bolivia for allegedly conspiring with opposition groups, further straining tense relations six months after he expelled the American ambassador.
GOP Looks to Escalate Attacks on Obama
 Perry Bacon Jr.
During the president's first few weeks in office, many congressional Republicans avoided sharp criticism of him, instead condemning Democratic congressional leaders, particularly House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But in the past week, Republicans have increasingly taken on Obama.
Pancho Villa Rides Again in U.S. Border Town
 Tim Gaynor
Scores of Mexican riders, some dressed as bandits and toting sabers, trotted across the U.S. border Saturday to remember a raid by Francisco "Pancho" Villa that left 18 Americans dead and this dusty U.S. frontier town a smoking ruin.
US Military Speeding Help to Mexico: Admiral
 Agence France-Presse
The United States is working to rush assistance to Mexico as it fights violent drug cartels, including equipment to help authorities track the narcotics mafia, according to the top US military officer.
Obama's Weekly Address: Toward a Better Day
 White House Blog
In his March 7th weekly address, the President capped off a busy week in Washington remarking on new lending guidelines aimed at lowering mortgage payments; an initiative to generate funds for small business and college loans; the release of his administration's first budget which includes $2T in deficit reduction, and the start of long overdue health care reform.
Obama to Sign Stem Cell Order on Monday
 David Alexander & Maggie Fox
President Barack Obama, who opposes limits on federal funding of stem cell research, will sign an executive order about stem cells on Monday, an administration official said on Friday.
It's Breasts, not Bombs, at Paraguay Nuke Protest
 Associated Press
Activists in Paraguay are showing a little skin for world peace. About 100 women disrobed Friday in a square in downtown Asuncion to protest nuclear weapons.
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