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Byline: ANDREW MEACHAM; Times Staff Writer PORT RICHEY -- For Doretha Arline, the block and stucco home meant far more than the roof it provided over her head. She had [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Andrew Downie The whereabouts of a remote Amazonian tribe who appeared in remarkable footage earlier this year aiming bows and arrows at a plane flying over their jungle homes [...]

Byline: Luis Fabregas May 22--U.S. Attorney David Hickton on Saturday urged community advocates to remain vigilant about drugs and violence, calling the case of a 7-year-old kindergarten student who distributed [...]

'No more blood!' Mexicans protesting drug-related violence at the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square Friday [...]

Byline: Nacha Cattan Benilde Alvarez shut the lights and locked herself and her young daughters in their bedrooms. The machine gun fire from a shootout could be heard all night [...]

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 [...]

Days before Mexico's President Felipe Calderon arrogantly addressed a joint session of Congress on how we ought to run this country, members of the National Rifle Association gathered in Charlotte, [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Sara Miller Llana Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Ciudad Ju㡲z, Mexico -- The front entrance of the Elena Garro Kindergarten in Ciudad Juarez looks just like any [...]

Byline: AP La Paz -- U.S. President George W. Bush says Bolivia is no longer co-operating in the war against drugs and has placed the South American country on a [...]

Byline: Sara Miller Llana Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Mazatlan, Mexico -- Songwriter Oswaldo Valdez stands with his brass band, 'Los Jaibos, on a street corner here, hoping [...]

Byline: JANE TABER; jtaber@globeandmail.com Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day is a fit guy who takes every opportunity to exercise. The minister was in Hamilton last week to announce $7.7-million for [...]

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. […]