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The Mediterranean has become a hotbed of human trafficking and carnage resulting from desperate attempts by people from Africa and most particularly sub-Saharan and North Africa to flee famine, …

Each bullet hole on the downtown Asunciu00f3n, Paraguay light posts tells a story. Some of them are from civil wars decades ago, some from successful and unsuccessful coups, others …

Since the u201cBlack Hawk Downu201d deaths in Somalia almost 20 years ago, weu2019ve heard little, if anything, about American military casualties in Africa. The growing number of patients arriving …

Slim obtained (with some other backers) a monopoly on the telephone system in Mexico, guaranteed for years

Pressure from big money lobbyists might be a factor pushing Gov. Cuomou2019s administration toward lifting a moratorium on fracking.

Moyers and Winship: You wonder why the banksters still roam free, like gunslingers in a Wild West town without a sheriff.

In the past dozen years, left parties in a whole lot of Latin America countriesu2014from Argentina to El Salvadoru2014have won elections and taken power. But, so far, Mexico has …

Without knowing what actually happened in 2006, it is perhaps more difficult to understand the widespread skepticism of the Mexican people as to the results of the current election.

The drug war is fueled by many things, and maybe the worst drug of all is money, to which so many are so addicted that they can never get …

The company that has shaped the modern economy turned 50 this week, but is a growing wave of protest enough to start forcing Wal-Mart to change?