20/09/2010 | Frente Externo
Cuba Resets the Revolution
For first-time visitors, one of the most striking things about Cuba is the lack of advertising on the landscape. The Socialist government has billboards bearing Fidel Castro’s likeness and his most quotable quotations. But one does not see roadside signs pitching much else.
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08/07/2010 | Frente Externo
Cuban Government Vows to Release 52 Prisoners
The Cuban government on Wednesday agreed to release 52 political prisoners in the coming months, a dramatic move that may ease international criticism as well as save the life of a prominent dissident who has been on a hunger strike for four months to push for the liberation of inmates.
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29/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican Candidate for Governor Is Assassinated
A popular candidate for governor who had made increased security his prime campaign pledge was killed along with at least four others Monday morning in a brazen attack, rattling a nation already alarmed by surging drug violence.
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12/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Cartel Papers Show Bribes to Mexican Authorities
Internal documents from one of Mexico’s largest and most profitable drug trafficking cartels help explain why the group’s leader remains at large, nearly a decade after he boldly escaped from a maximum security prison by hiding in a laundry cart.
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06/10/2009 | Frente Externo
Still Fragile, Haiti Makes Sales Pitch
They came in pinstripes and clutched BlackBerrys that surprised them by going off the same way they did back home. Some said they were taken aback, on the way from the airport to their luxury hotel, by the commotion on the streets and by the obvious poverty of the place. “Don’t worry,” one of them said he told his wife. “It’s no picnic here, but it’s not as bad as I thought.”
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07/10/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Mexico, the right thing to wear at the wrong end of a gun
Exclusive clothing boutiques line Avenida Presidente Masarik here. A Burberry coat? A Corneliani suit? A Gucci scarf? Have enough pesos, and they are yours.
But tucked on a leafy side street in the Polanco neighborhood is a shop unlike the others, one whose bustling business says much about the dire state of security in this country. At Miguel Caballero, named after its Colombian owner, all the garments are bulletproof.
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07/10/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In Mexico, the right thing to wear at the wrong end of a gun
Exclusive clothing boutiques line Avenida Presidente Masarik here. A Burberry coat? A Corneliani suit? A Gucci scarf? Have enough pesos, and they are yours.
But tucked on a leafy side street in the Polanco neighborhood is a shop unlike the others, one whose bustling business says much about the dire state of security in this country. At Miguel Caballero, named after its Colombian owner, all the garments are bulletproof.
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29/04/2008 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
‘Virtual Kidnappings’ Exploit Very Real Fears
The phone call begins with the cries of an anguished child calling for a parent: “Mama! Papa!” The youngster’s sobs are quickly replaced by a husky male voice that means business.
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12/09/2007 | Frente Externo
Complex Defeat for Nobel Winner in Guatemala
There are two ways to win political office in this traditional Mayan town nestled on the southern shore of Lake Atitlán, and campaigning is but one of them.
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02/08/2005 | Frente Externo
A death bodes ill for Sudan
With John Garang's body lying in the next hut, Sudan's southern rebels huddled in this remote outpost Monday night to salvage a historic peace agreement that their leader struck with Sudan's government earlier this year before dying suddenly in a helicopter crash over the weekend.
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