DEA operatives pretending to be from the Taliban entrap gullible hotheads—and the New York Times plays along, portraying an actual Taliiban role in the case (which there isn’t).
Armed heists on grain trucks and other signs of protein-desperation are breaking out across Mexico as harsh weather has decimated corn and other food crops.
A US ICE agent attached to the Mexico City embassy was killed in a narco-ambush near Monterrey as drug-related violence claimed several lives around the country.
The Colombian navy announced the seizure a submarine believed to be used by drug runners to smuggle cocaine to Mexican shores. Authorities call it the most sophisticated craft yet uncovered.
China and Colombia are planning to build a railway linking the South American country’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The rail line will pass through the violent Urabá region.
Chevron says it will appeal a ruling by a court in Ecuador ordering the company to pay $8.6 billion in damages for the pollution of large areas of the country’s rainforest.
Sudanese Guantánamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed pleaded guilty before a military tribunal to charges of collaborating with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Hundreds of protesters clashed with police and government supporters in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Opposition leaders have called for a national “day of rage” tomorrow.
Haiti’s immigration service has issued a diplomatic passport for former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who has lived in exile in South Africa since he was forced from office in 2004.
Some 100 members of Mexican drug gang Los Zetas settled in the northwest Guatemalan city of Cobán by early 2009 under protection from “corrupt” police, a WikiLeaks cable states.
The Mexican daily La Jornada announced it has received some 3,000 US diplomatic cables, which purport to reveal links between Mexico’s narco gangs and Colombia’s FARC guerillas.
Friends of the Women of Juárez wrote US Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano demanding the release of three-year-old Mexican Heidi Frayre to the care of relatives in El Paso, Texas.
