Azerbaijan Leader's Statue In Mexico City Draws Protests
In Mexico City's most prominent tree-lined park, you can find statues to such international heroes as Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King and now Heydar Aliyev. He's the Soviet-era autocrat of...
View ArticleHigh Expectations Welcome Mexico's New President
It's Inauguration Day in Mexico, and President Enrique Pena Nieto inherits a country with a mixed record.Most of Mexico is embroiled in a deadly drug war that has claimed the lives of as many as 50,000...
View ArticleA Scrappy Soccer Champion Brings Joy To A Weary Mexican City
News out of Tijuana, Mexico is usually grisly and bad — not today though. The city is in full swing celebration and it's not because of the capture of a narco kingpin. Tijuana has a scrappy group of...
View ArticleMaya Struggle With Poverty, Honoring Their Roots
The Mayan people of Mexico and Central America received quite a bit of attention this month thanks to a misinterpretation of their calendar. Word spread all over the globe that the ancient culture had...
View ArticleMexico's New President Changes Drug Trafficking Tactics
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: It has been a busy year in Mexico's war on drugs. The administration of former President Felipe Calderon struck major blows to the country's largest cartels, slowing the...
View ArticleBuyback Program Gets Some Guns Off Mexican Streets
In Mexico, a country plagued by drug cartel violence, the mayor of the capital city is offering residents cash, new bikes and computers in exchange for their guns. He says the buyback program will get...
View Article'Sick And Tired,' Residents In Southern Mexico Defend Themselves
On the main road into the Mexican town of Ayutla, about 75 miles southeast of Acapulco, about a dozen men cradling shotguns and rusted machetes stand guard on a street corner.
View ArticleThe Mexico-Canada Guest Worker Program: A Model For The U.S.?
In the U.S., farmers and farm workers alike say the current system to import temporary workers, especially in agriculture, is slow and fraught with abuses.But the shape of a new guest-worker program is...
View ArticleMexico's 'Crisis Of Disappearance': Families Seek Answers
Maximina Hernandez says she begged her 23-year old son, Dionicio, to give up his job as a police officer in a suburb of Monterrey. Rival drug cartels have been battling in the northern Mexican city for...
View ArticleThe Pope Emeritus' New Shoes And The Mexican Man Who Makes Them
As Pope Benedict XVI left the Vatican and his papacy, he slipped out of his trademark red shoes and put on a pair of Mexican leather loafers. The shoes, actually three pairs, two burgundy and one...
View ArticleVenezuelan Oil Subsidies Still Buoy Neighbors, For Now
Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chavez, was a tremendous supporter of Latin American countries, especially those sympathetic to his socialist ideals.The country's vast oil reserves are a key source of...
View ArticleMexican President Shifts Focus From Drugs To Progress
Mexico's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has been in office for three months, and despite his claims that he's fighting drug violence with a new strategy, there are no signs the situation is any...
View ArticleThree Decades On, Ex-Guatemalan Leader Faces Genocide Charges
In a Guatemalan courtroom Tuesday, prosecutors will present their case against a former military dictator who ruled during one of the bloodiest periods in the Central American nation's 36-year civil...
View ArticleDramatic Testimony Marks Start Of Guatemalan Genocide Trial
The genocide trial of former U.S.-backed Guatemalan General Ephraim Rios Montt began Tuesday. The charges stem from the bloody civil war which lasted for more than three decades. More than 200,000...
View ArticleU.S. Men's Soccer Team Ties With Mexico
Brad Guzan swatted away shot after shot and the U.S. team hung on for a 0-0 draw with Mexico Tuesday night. The U.S. earned only its second point in a World Cup qualifier at Azteca Stadium.
View ArticleAhead Of Obama Trip, Mexico Alters Cooperation Agreements
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene.RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And I'm Renee Montagne. Mexico's agonizing war on its drug cartels is about to...
View ArticleOn Mexico Trip, Obama Maintains Economic Focus
Transcript SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. President Obama is in Costa Rica today. He's talking with leaders of Central American nations about security and...
View ArticleViolence, Hardship Fuels Central American Immigration To U.S.
William Ordonez and his wife, Carolia, thought that starting a new business in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was a great idea.But just two weeks after they started selling chips, candy and soda, gang...
View ArticleFormer Guatemalan Dictator Found Guilty Of Genocide
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, that's the verdict today against Efrain Rios Montt, a former dictator of Guatemala. The general ruled the Central...
View ArticleAs Stigma Eases, Single Motherhood In Mexico Is On The Rise
On her daily route delivering laundry in her working-class neighborhood in southern Mexico City, Maria Carlotta Santa Maria, or Mari, as she is known, seems to know everyone: the mailman, the woman on...
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