19/02/2012 | Medio Ambiente
If Mexico recycles, what's left for trash pickers?
Pablo Téllez Falcón has long ruled supreme over one of the world's largest dumps, at the edge of Mexico City. He was born in garbage, he likes to say, and he intends to die there.
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19/02/2012 | Medio Ambiente
If Mexico recycles, what's left for trash pickers?
Pablo Téllez Falcón has long ruled supreme over one of the world's largest dumps, at the edge of Mexico City. He was born in garbage, he likes to say, and he intends to die there.
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19/02/2012 | Medio Ambiente
If Mexico recycles, what's left for trash pickers?
Pablo Téllez Falcón has long ruled supreme over one of the world's largest dumps, at the edge of Mexico City. He was born in garbage, he likes to say, and he intends to die there.
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26/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - As Gangs Move In on Mexico’s Schools, Teachers Say ‘Enough’
The message is delivered by a phone call to the office of one school, a sheaf of photocopied papers dropped off at another, a banner hung outside a third (Acapulco, Mexico).
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14/01/2010 | Frente Externo
Report on Lawyer’s Death Eases a Political Crisis in Guatemala
The story is as convoluted as a film noir plot. A prominent lawyer is murdered after he accuses the president of plotting to kill him. But an international investigation finds that the murder was actually planned by the victim himself and carried out in a way that appeared intended to inflict maximum damage on the government.
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23/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Revenge in Drug War Chills Mexico
It had been an elaborate farewell to one of Mexico’s fallen heroes.Ensign Melquisedet Angulo Córdova, a special forces sailor killed last week during the government’s most successful raid on a top drug lord in years, received a stirring public tribute in which the secretary of the navy presented his mother with the flag that covered her son’s coffin.
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04/12/2009 | Frente Externo
Court Papers Detail Killings by the Military in Guatemala
There are almost 200 pages of platoon reports, and they each repeat a similar story: A military patrol enters a Mayan village in the Guatemalan region of El Quiché in the summer of 1982. The soldiers arrest anybody who does not flee in time and “eliminate” anybody who tries to escape. Then they burn the houses, destroy the crops and kill the livestock.
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04/12/2009 | Frente Externo
Court Papers Detail Killings by the Military in Guatemala
There are almost 200 pages of platoon reports, and they each repeat a similar story: A military patrol enters a Mayan village in the Guatemalan region of El Quiché in the summer of 1982. The soldiers arrest anybody who does not flee in time and “eliminate” anybody who tries to escape. Then they burn the houses, destroy the crops and kill the livestock.
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