Impunity in Mexico: 49 toddlers die in fire, officials absolved

That´s how it works here. You can imagine how the justice system would have reacted in the U.S. if 49 children had been killed in a fire at ...

The siege of Cochabamba

The split widened between the two Bolivias this past week. Tens of thousands of coca growers, peasants and supporters of the socialist gove...

1 million people say yes

Eight hundred thousand people gathered in the square a couple blocks from me Dec. 15 for a cabildo, a town meeting. They were demanding that...

Frontier justice

In the past few weeks there have been two big stories in the papers about vigilante groups killing supposed malefactors. A few days ago, vi...