Sara Miller Llana

Mexico Drug War Death Toll Up 60 Percent in 2010. Why?

Mexico City - Four years after taking on Mexico’s drug traffickers by deploying some 50,000 military and federal forces, President Felipe Calderón is touting successes, including taking down top …

By: Sara Miller Llana ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

January 14, 2011

Mexico Buys Corn Futures to Ensure Tortilla Prices Remain Flat

Mexico City - In 2007, massive impromptu street protests threatened the popularity of Mexican President Felipe Calderón. But it was not drug violence or kidnappings that prompted the outcry. …

By: Sara Miller Llana ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

December 26, 2010

Mexico Activists Vow to Press Ahead After Mother Seeking Justice Is Murdered

Human rights activists in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico's most violent city, say their cause will not be silenced by the death of Marisela Escobedo Ortiz, who was shot dead last …

By: Sara Miller Llana ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

December 22, 2010

Deadly Chile Prison Fire Puts Heat on Latin America’s Crowded Jails

Santiago, Chile; and Mexico City — On the morning of Dec. 8, 81 inmates at the San Miguel prison in Santiago died when rioting prisoners set their overcrowded penitentiary …

By: Sara Miller Llana &; Steven Bodzin ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

December 18, 2010

Aid Workers in Haiti Rush to Contain Cholera

Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and Mexico City - With the first official case of cholera diagnosed by doctors in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of other cases suspected, officials and nongovernmental …

By: Sara Miller Llana &; Isabeau Doucet ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

November 10, 2010

Global Doors Slam Shut on Immigrants

Tultitlan, Mexico - In this town of 800,000, illegal immigrants beg in the middle of streets and linger along the railway tracks that clack incessantly with boxcars ferrying food …

By: Sara Miller Llana ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

October 9, 2010

State of Siege in Ecuador as Rafael Correa Takes on Rebel Police

The streets of Ecuador remained quiet today, a day after a dramatic standoff left President Rafael Correa holed up in a hospital for 12 hours and claiming that a …

By: Sara Miller Llana &; Diane Cambon ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

October 2, 2010

Ecuador Coup Attempt Shows Fragility of Latin American Democracy

Mexico City - President Rafael Correa of Ecuador was rescued from the hospital where he was trapped Thursday for 12 hours, but the political implications of the attempt to …

By: Sara Miller Llana ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

October 1, 2010

Chile Miners Have Country Rallying Around Hope of Rescue

Up and down the capital of Santiago, drivers honked their horns as news emerged that the 33 trapped Chile miners remain alive. Helping the miners persevere mentally may now …

By: Sara Miller Llana &; Steven Bodzin ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

August 23, 2010

Hugo Chávez Oil Threats: Why Chávez Won’t Cut Off Oil to the US

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez threatened to cut off oil to the US on Sunday. The latest Chávez oil threat comes amid a rising diplomatic spat with neighboring Colombia, a …

By: Sara Miller Llana ,; TheChristianScienceMonitor|Report

July 26, 2010

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