mexico/latin america
Posted Apr 9, 2018, 11:32 pm
Blake Morlock
/TucsonSentinel.com
The immigration debate, and for the moment the controversy about the National Guard on the border, is about an inevitable power shift – who's losing it, who's got it, and what they are going to do with it on the brink of massive cultural change. No wonder the facts are irrelevant.... Read more»
Posted Mar 21, 2010, 11:36 am
Ezra Fieser
/Special to GlobalPost
A year ago, Domingo Castillo Yoc lived with three siblings and his parents in a rural village. Today, he stands guard in front of a small shipping business in a dodgy neighborhood in Guatemala City.... Read more»
Posted Mar 20, 2010, 1:25 pm
Julian Aguilar
/The Texas Tribune
Steeped in the annals of America's symbiotic relationship with Mexico is the two countries’ long-standing and sometimes tense agreement over an issue more far-reaching than border security and immigration: water.... Read more»
Posted Mar 16, 2010, 10:32 am
Brandi Grissom
/The Texas Tribune
Following the weekend killing in Juarez of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Juarez, the U.S. Department of State has issued a strongly worded and startling warning for Americans to stay away from Mexico. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 9, 2010, 9:13 am
Michael Truelsen
/TucsonSentinel.com
A Caribbean pirate named Moses is giving Jamaica an unexpected source of tourism dollars - Jews.... Read more»
Updated Mar 6, 2010, 3:58 pm
Michael Truelsen
/TucsonSentinel.com
Harsh winter weather in Florida has affected tomato prices across the country, including Tucson.... Read more»
Posted Mar 5, 2010, 8:33 pm
Julia Kumari Drapkin
/GlobalPost
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Agostina Senese is a vegetarian in a country where cooking beef on the grill is considered a sacred rite.... Read more»
Posted Mar 3, 2010, 12:02 pm
Nick Miroff
/GlobalPost
Orlando Zapata Tamayo wasn't a prominent voice in Cuba's small opposition movement. He wasn't one of the dissident activists whom foreign reporters often call for quotes, and he didn't have a blog or an academic degree.... Read more»
Posted Mar 2, 2010, 9:37 am
Michael Truelsen
/TucsonSentinel.com
A group of illegal border crossers, frustrated at being robbed a second time, say they beat two men, killing one, deputies say.... Read more»
Posted Feb 28, 2010, 10:53 am
Nick Miroff
/GlobalPost
Each February, Cuba’s International Book Fair transforms the old Spanish fortifications that overlook the Havana harbor into one of the biggest book parties in the world. The fair is Cuba’s largest cultural event, and as such, it brings out the best and worst elements of a one-party socialist system that celebrates reading but practices careful censorship.... Read more»
Posted Feb 26, 2010, 11:42 am
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
The U.S. has closed its consulate in the Mexican city of Reynosa after a series of gunfights between soldiers and drug gangs.... Read more»
Posted Feb 24, 2010, 10:41 am
Ioan Grillo
/GlobalPost
The United Nations has reprimanded Latin American countries that have decriminalized narcotic use, delivering a blow to the growing movement looking for a change in drug policy. It says it is particularly concerned by a 2009 law in Mexico that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of cannabis, cocaine, heroin and other drugs.... Read more»
Posted Feb 24, 2010, 9:19 am
Michael Truelsen
/TucsonSentinel.com
The U.S. State Department has issued a travel alert for U.S. citizens traveling to Mexico, citing a rise in violence throughout the country. Nogales, Son. and other border cities are listed in the alert as where most of the violence has occurred.... Read more»
Posted Feb 23, 2010, 9:56 am
Melanie Kiser
/Cronkite News Service
Dramatic changes to Mexico's criminal justice system will make its prosecutions more like those in the United States, opening proceedings and paving the way for more transborder collaboration, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said Monday.... Read more»
Posted Feb 19, 2010, 12:08 pm
Sebastian Rotella
/ProPublica
In a politically sensitive operation at the Arizona-Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican federal police officers are training together, sharing intelligence and coordinating patrols for the first time.... Read more»
Posted Feb 19, 2010, 10:35 am
Ryan Van Velzer
/Cronkite News Service
PUERTO PEÑASCO, Mexico - Reports of border violence and a State Department travel alert didn't deter Jamison Haponenko from a Mexican vacation with his family. “We’ve brought our daughters down here a couple of times already, and there have never been any problems.”... Read more»