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Guatemala full of questions after genocide conviction annulled

2013-05-21 18:15:00

MEXICO CITY — The Guatemalan high court's decision to annul the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt on Tuesday revived questions about his responsibility for the slaughter of some 1,700 ethnic Maya people. The...

Guatemalan court action revives questions about Rios Montt's fate

2013-05-21 13:45:00

MEXICO CITY— The Guatemalan high court’s decision to overturn the genocide conviction of former military dictator Efrain Rios Montt and restart his trial has revived questions about his responsibility for the slaughter of some 1,700 ethnic...

OAS study says countries should consider decriminalizing drug use

2013-05-17 14:30:00

BOGOTA, Colombia — The Organization of American States said Friday that countries should consider decriminalizing drug use, a shift backed by several Latin American leaders but opposed by the United States. Decriminalization could be one of many...

Mexico names public security chief for Michoacan state

2013-05-16 18:05:00

MEXICO CITY — Responding to mounting concern about disorder in the Mexican state of Michoacan, officials announced Thursday that an army general would take over as its public security chief, overseeing both state and federal security forces. The...

Gay rights activists in Mexico City accuse police of abuses

2013-05-17 12:30:00

MEXICO CITY -- Same-sex marriage is legal in this city. Gay and lesbian couples can adopt children, and the government touts tolerance and respect for "sexual diversity" in messages posted on subway platforms and bus billboards. Yet, according to...

Apron maker finds profitable recipe catering to chefs

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Ellen Bennett launched an apron company last year not knowing how to sew and not knowing how to run a business. Now she has the world, so to speak, by the strings. "There was just the idea," says the diminutive, consistently buoyant 25-year-old who also...

Mexico prepares for more intense eruptions from Popo volcano

2013-05-14 00:00:00

MEXICO CITY— Mexico's giant Popocatepetl volcano may generate lava flows, explosions of "growing intensity" and ash that could reach miles away, the National Center for Disaster Prevention said Monday. Officials were preparing evacuation routes...

Jaron Lanier takes a hard look at the wired world

2013-05-16 14:15:00

Jaron Lanier has a research job with Microsoft. He won't go into specfics, but it has something to do with imagining the future and asking questions. Lanier is a longtime Silicon Valley insider whose primary occupation has been to imagine, think and ask...

Two suspects arrested in death of Malcolm Shabazz in Mexico

2013-05-13 16:59:00

MEXICO CITY — Two waiters at a downtown Mexico City bar have been arrested and identified by prosecutors here as the “likely killers” of Malcolm Shabazz. The grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, Shabazz was beaten to death...

Mexico's 'Popo' volcano spews ash, molten rock

2013-05-13 11:29:00

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican officials are preparing evacuation routes and shelters for tens of thousands of people who live in the shadow of Popocatepetl, a giant volcano 40 miles southeast of Mexico City. "Popo," as the volcano is known, has displayed a...

A Carlos Fuentes boom on the anniversary of his death

2013-05-15 13:19:00

The Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes is the subject of a small, literary boom on the anniversary of his death. Fuentes died one year ago, May 15, 2012, at the age of 83. This week his North American publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, released more...

Tijuana's creative youth breathing new life into La Sexta, beyond

2013-05-12 08:00:00

TIJUANA — On a recent Friday night along Avenida Revoluci�n, dense crowds of club kids, college students and stylishly dressed maquiladora workers wandered past boisterous new bars, nouvelle restaurants, mod clothing shops and funky art galleries....

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla, on May 20, 2013.

2013-05-20 00:00:00

A cloud of ash belches out of Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano, some 55 km from Mexico City, as seen from Paso de Cortes, in the Mexican central state of Puebla.

2013-05-20 00:00:00

Vehicles burn along a highway in Ecatepec near Mexico City after a gas tanker truck exploded.

2013-05-07 00:00:00