When Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said this week that the Senate immigration bill would transform the U.S.-Mexico boundary into “the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall,” it sounded to many here like a sensible statement of criticism./
Etiqueta: security
Mexico’s Curbs on U.S. Role in Drug Fight Spark Friction
In their joint fight against drug traffickers, the United States and Mexico have forged an unusually close relationship in recent years, with the Americans regularly conducting polygraph tests on elite Mexican security officials to root out anyone who had
U.S. role at a crossroads in Mexico’s intelligence war on the cartels
For the past seven years, Mexico and the United States have put aside their tension-filled history on security matters to forge an unparalleled alliance against Mexico’s drug cartels, one based on sharing sensitive intelligence, U.S. training and joint op
Nothing to celebrate in Mexico
On first read, it might have been a hoax. On International Human Rights Day last month, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Anthony Wayne, “celebrated” Mexico’s human rights achievements. “The United States recognizes the Mexican government, including official
Use of torture by authorities has risen in Mexico, groups say
On the eve of Mexico’s Day of the Dead this year, authorities in Veracruz declared triumphantly that they had solved one of the decade’s most notorious slayings of a journalist in Mexico.
Thick as BRICS
― When the United Nations voted for what was known as partition and created the state of Israel 64 years ago, subsequently granting it full membership, several Latin American countries ― Brazil, El Salvador, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Honduras ― abstaine
Thick as BRICS
When the United Nations voted for what was known as partition and created the State of Israel 64 years ago, subsequently granting it full membership, several Latin American countries – Brazil, El Salvador, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Honduras – abstained.
The education of Tony Wayne, ambassador to Mexico
Incoming U.S. Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne was briefed last week on the intimate but strained state of U.S.-Mexico relations — and what to expect when his plane lands here later this month.
The Trouble With the BRICs
As the so-called BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India, and China, have grown more and more influential in the world economy, their administrators and myriad pundits have inevitably concluded that they and other rising powers should also become more impor
Brazil, India and China — not quite superpowers yet
CARLOS LOZADA.- It’s an article of faith among the liberal, open-minded, well-meaning, Davos-crowd intelligentsia: The leadership of the big global institutions — the International Monetary Fund, the U.N. Security Council…