As War Crimes Trial Nears End, Many Liberians Hope for President's Return
Jerry Lampen, AP
MONROVIA, Liberia -- With President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial in The Hague nearing an end after three years, many Liberians hope he will be brought home -- to a hero's welcome. Take Fasu...
Last Resident of Chicago's Cabrini-Green Faces Uncertain Future
NBW Photo
CHICAGO (Dec. 9) -- The ungainly 15-story high-rise pierces the blue winter sky, a lonely emblem marking the end of an era in this city's public housing program. Lights flicker on the 11th floor....
Mexican Police Chief, 20, Advocates All-Female Patrols
AP
(Oct. 26) -- Amid a wave of bloodshed in Mexico's northern borderlands, there's a new cop in town. Marisol Valles Garcia, a 20-year-old college student studying criminology, beat 20 other contenders...
Pride Trumps Politics in Peru for Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Tama, Getty Images
LIMA, Peru (Oct. 7) -- With great pride Peruvians received the news Thursday that their most well-known man of letters, Mario Vargas Llosa, had won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, even if they...
Ecuador's Rebellion Quelled, but Not Its Fiscal Woes
Dolores Ochoa, AP
(Oct. 1) -- Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said today he would offer "no pardon or forgiveness" to the national police force for its role in what he claimed was an attempt to overthrow him. But...
Threatened Mexican Journalist Gets US Asylum
(Sept. 22) -- A Mexican journalist threatened by drug gangs said the United States has granted him political asylum, in the first of what could be more such moves by Washington to address an...
Mexico Mulls Dissolving City Police Forces
AP
(Aug. 25) -- Few mayors are keen to see their own municipal police forces abolished. But few have faced the violence and corruption Jose Reyes Ferriz has seen as mayor of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico....
Peru Court Orders American Lori Berenson Back to Jail
AP
LIMA, Peru (Aug. 18) -- Lori Berenson, a native New Yorker arrested in 1995 and later convicted of aiding a leftist insurgency, turned herself in to Peruvian authorities today after being ordered to...
Mexican Ex-President's Drug Proposal Stirs Debate
Guillermo Arias, AP
MEXICO CITY (Aug. 10) -- A former Mexican president's proposal to legalize drugs to reduce cartel-related violence is stoking an increasingly desperate policy debate within Mexico and in...
In Peru, Specter of Left-Wing Terror Is Campaign Issue
Scott Dalton, AP
LIMA, Peru (July 30) -- As this nation's ruling party gears up for municipal elections in the fall and general elections next year, it seems to be pulling out all the stops to quell a left-wing...
Mexicans to Vote Amid Drug-Fueled Violence
AP
MEXICO CITY (June 30) -- As drug-trade violence mars the run-up to a brace of elections in Mexico, a troubling figure has resurfaced as the leading mayoral candidate in Mexico's murder...
Jamaican Officials: Alleged Drug Kingpin Caught
The Jamaica Gleaner / AP
(June 23) -- Jamaican authorities say they have captured alleged drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke at a checkpoint on the island, ending a five-week manhunt that pitted poor residents of the...
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