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Feds keep it all in "La Familia"

October 29, 2009 18:36Updated October 29, 2009 18:36

Vigilante justice spreads across Mexico

October 28, 2009 06:39Updated May 30, 2010 13:11
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — The five teenage boys slump against the wall of a dark house and eye the camcorder nervously. Suddenly, a fist enters the frame smacking one of the boys in the face. Then the barrel of an automatic rifle appears and the teenagers’ expressions turn to terror. “Why are you here?” shouts a voice. “For robbing,” one of the boys mumbles. “You see. You were little rats and now look at you,” replies the interrogator.

“Legalize it” lobby gains strength across Americas

October 20, 2009 06:26Updated May 30, 2010 13:11
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — After carefully packing light green Mexican marijuana into a homemade water pipe, university student Salvador Chavez drew a deep breath from the tube and blew the smoke out of the window of his modest family home. “I don’t care if the neighbors call the police on me. They can’t arrest me for this anymore,” he said behind lightly glazed eyes. “But then police here never cared much about a bit of marijuana anyway. Everything has just stayed the same really.”

"Lights" out in Mexico City

Ioan GrilloOctober 19, 2009 10:58Updated October 19, 2009 10:58
Top News: The surprising shut down of Mexico’s state-run Light and Power company, which provided electricity to 25 million in Mexico City and nearby states, dominated the Mexican headlines in the first half of October. President Felipe Calderon closed the company by decree on Oct.

US agents shoot at smugglers, closing border

Ioan GrilloOctober 2, 2009 18:09Updated October 2, 2009 18:09
Top News: The United States temporarily closed the busiest crossing on its southern border on Sept. 22 when agents shot at migrant smugglers who tried to speed through the border post in three vans packed with illegal migrants.

Mexico’s "business class" refugees

Todd BensmanOctober 1, 2009 10:50Updated May 30, 2010 13:09
SAN ANTONIO — Hard work and acumen earned Pierre Oliver Gama Valdes fabulous affluence at 34. As a Mexican living in his country’s sprawling capital, however, neither his wit nor wealth could protect his family from criminal gangs’ extortionist threats. On the contrary, success made Gama a marked man, and left him in constant fear for his wife and two children.

Man hijacks plane with orange juice cartons

Ioan GrilloSeptember 17, 2009 16:59Updated September 17, 2009 16:59
Top News: The story of the hijacking of a packed plane from Cancun briefly made headlines on Sept. 9. The first reports were particularly shocking with TV networks making wild claims that there were three terrorists on board with explosives tied to themselves. But after masked police raided the plane in Mexico City, it turned out to be one lone hijacker with a fake bomb made of orange juice cartons.

Cities of sisterly love

John EndersSeptember 19, 2009 09:15Updated May 30, 2010 13:07
GUANAJUATO, Mexico — The recent influenza epidemic and ongoing drug violence may be keeping most Americans from visiting Mexico these days, but at least one group of Americans from a small city in southern Oregon will not be kept away. For 40 years residents of Ashland, Ore., have traveled to the city of Guanajuato in the heart of central Mexico — and this year would be no different.

Turkey is likely site for Iran talks

September 15, 2009 08:23
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said it’s “very likely” Turkey will be the site for a meeting between Iran and major powers, scheduled to take place Oct. 1. Iran on Monday agreed to sit down to talks with representatives of the U.S., Britain, China, France, Russia and Germany, the so-called "P5+1", meaning the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany. (Europeans tend to call the grouping "3 + 3" for the three European members plus the U.S., Russia and China.)

Full Frame: Unusual cultures, uncommon places

Tewfic El-SawySeptember 12, 2009 08:49Updated May 30, 2010 13:07
A photographer documents endangered cultures and traditional ways of life.
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