Truthout
Truthout on the Mexican Border: Revealing What Is Behind the US War on Drugs
Exposing the unofficial intentions of the US war on drugs in Latin America and its deadly impact.
Series Introduction
Introduction to Truthout on the Mexican Border Series
Exposing the unofficial intentions of the US war on drugs in Latin America and its deadly impact.
Fear, Corporate Profiteering, and Government Expansion of the Security Surveillance State on the US Borderland
Private security companies are making a profit from turning the US/Mexico border into a military zone. Mark Karlin reports.
How the Militarized War on Drugs in Latin America Benefits Transnational Corporations and Undermines Democracy
Canadian journalist Dawn Paley dispels the notion that nearly a trillion dollars spent on eradicating illegal drug trafficking (since Richard Nixon's administration) has shown any serious success.
The 1% Connection: Mexico and the United States, Crony Capitalism and the Exploitation of Labor Through NAFTA
Slim obtained (with some other backers) a monopoly on the telephone system in Mexico, guaranteed for years
How the US Government, Banks, Prison-Industrial Complex, Corrupt Officials, Businesses, Law Enforcement, Racists and the CIA Profit From Illegal Drugs
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits.
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The School of the Americas, the CIA and the US-Condoned Cancer of Torture Continue to Spread in Latin America, Including Mexico
Harbury's request was simple: she wanted the State Department or CIA to tell her what had happened to her husband. But both agencies didn't acknowledge they knew of his …
Who Is Killing the Journalists in Mexico?
Journalists are being killed, wounded and threatened at an alarming rate in Mexico since the US/Mexican war on drugs accelerated into a bloodbath of deaths, wounding and torture beginning …
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A Poet’s Pain Launches a Peace Movement in Mexico
Javier Sicilia: Can a poet overcome a state of lawlessness and corruption to bring peace to Mexico? (Photo: Mark Karlin)Sicilia, 55, is a poet, a journalist, a novelist, a …
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Latina Leaders of Texas Colonias Help Remake Shantytowns Into Empowered Communities
Lupita Sanchez, coordinator for community action services at Proyecto Juan Diego, helps Cameron Park colonia residents become empowered through getting out the vote. (Photo by Mark Karlin.)This is the …
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The US War on Drug Cartels in Mexico Is a Deadly Failure
(Photo: Mark Karlin) The Official Story From the US State Department On March 29, 2012, William R. Brownfield, US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics …
Murder Incorporated: Guns, the NRA and the Politics of Violence on the Mexican Border
Sign on road just before main bridge into Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. (Photo: Mark Karlin)An Iron River of Guns Flows Across the Border A phalanx of US law enforcement …