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As the looming gray building imploded, crumbling into a pile of debris and dust, a crowd of onlookers cheered. Some wept. The televised blast on Friday that leveled the Monaco [...]

MORELIA, Mexico -- Pope Francis delivered his most searing indictment of the Mexican underworld Tuesday, encouraging the nation's youth to value themselves and resist the temptation to join forces with [...]

MEXICO CITY -- Reeling from a drug war that has killed tens of thousands and a boom in violent crime in general, Mexico has built a memorial to victims of [...]

MEXICO CITY -- When Ana Aguirre stepped onto the soccer field in the main plaza here, wearing her green Mexican uniform, and scored goals against teams from Brazil and the [...]

CATEMACO, Mexico -- In the dimly lighted back room of a modest house in this tourist city now largely devoid of tourists, Luis Tomas Marthen Torres, a warlock with 50 [...]

SALVADOR, Brazil -- Jenilson Dos Santos Conceicao, 20, lay face down on the rough concrete, his body twisted, sandals still on his feet, as the blood from his 14 bullet [...]

TIJUANA, Mexico -- It is now the city safe enough for an Al Gore speech. Indeed, Tijuana has become a place, in the narrative of federal and local officials, not [...]

Culiacan, Mexico FOUR years ago Mexico invented a civil war: the government decided to confront the seven major drug cartels. The army was sent into the streets, mountains and country [...]

MEXICO CITY -- When Margarita Zavala, the wife of Mexico's president, is reminded that newspapers here all ran front-page photographs of her attending a recent memorial service for two university [...]

CALI, Colombia -- Of all the animals that come to die under Ana Julia Torres's saman trees, the ocelots are among the most numerous. There are eight of them here, [...]

REYNOSA, Mexico -- The big philosophical question in this gritty border town does not concern trees falling in the forest but bodies falling on the concrete: Does a shootout actually [...]

OMAR PIMENTEL'S office seemed more like a secluded getaway than a police command post at the center of a drug war. Its walls were painted the blue-green color of the […]

Seventeen people died in two separate violent incidents on Sunday and Monday that underscored an increasing sense of lawlessness in Mexico. A former soldier went on a rampage in a […]

The apartment buildings lining Decatur Avenue north of 195th Street have official-looking signs bolted to the brick, declaring that hallways are off limits to drug dealers, muggers and anybody else […]

John Neace forces himself to pass by the run-down apartment buildings every day. Inside, the police say, Mr. Neace's 10-year-old daughter stumbled on someone with methamphetamine last month. Her drowned […]

POOR Orlando Tobon has no time to pack for Hollywood. His phone keeps ringing. People want things: vacation packages, immigration papers, job leads, help with tax forms and eviction notices. […]

New York City continues to experience a steady decline in violent crime -- a decline that is more pronounced than in other big cities or in the country as a […]