It's No Yolk: Mexicans Cope With Egg Shortage, Price Spikes
There is a new crisis in Mexico. It's not the ongoing drug war or a plunge in the peso: It's eggs.
View ArticleL.A. Sheriff Rebuked For Alleged Inmate Abuse
Los Angeles County's sheriff is under fire. A blue-ribbon commission issued a scathing report Friday accusing Sheriff Lee Baca of failing to address long-standing allegations of inmate abuse in his...
View ArticleSpace Shuttle Endeavour Rolls To Its Resting Place
NASA's space shuttle Endeavour is on its last journey. It's being towed through the streets of Los Angeles on its way to a science museum. Endeavour is expected to take two days to make the trip,...
View ArticleAzerbaijan Leader's Statue In Mexico Draws Protests
In Mexico City's most prominent tree-lined park, you can find statues to such international heroes as Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King and now Heydar Aliyev. He's the Soviet-era autocrat of...
View ArticleHigh Expectations Welcome Mexico's New President
Mexico's new president is being sworn in Saturday, and Enrique Pena Nieto inherits a country with a mixed record. Most of Mexico is embroiled in a deadly drug war that has claimed the lives of as many...
View ArticleMaya Struggle With Poverty, Honoring Their Roots
The Mayan people of Mexico and Central America received quite a bit of attention this month thanks to a misinterpretation of their calendar. Word spread all over the globe that the ancient culture had...
View ArticleMexico's New President Changes Drug Trafficking Tactics
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: It has been a busy year in Mexico's war on drugs. The administration of former President Felipe Calderon struck major blows to the country's largest cartels, slowing the...
View ArticleBuyback Program Gets Some Guns Off Mexican Streets
In Mexico, a country plagued by drug cartel violence, the mayor of the capital city is offering residents cash, new bikes and computers in exchange for their guns. He says the buyback program will get...
View Article'Sick And Tired,' Residents In Southern Mexico Defend Themselves
On the main road into the Mexican town of Ayutla, about 75 miles southeast of Acapulco, about a dozen men cradling shotguns and rusted machetes stand guard on a street corner.
View ArticleThe Mexico-Canada Guest Worker Program: A Model For The U.S.?
In the U.S., farmers and farm workers alike say the current system to import temporary workers, especially in agriculture, is slow and fraught with abuses.But the shape of a new guest-worker program is...
View ArticleMexico's 'Crisis Of Disappearance': Families Seek Answers
Maximina Hernandez says she begged her 23-year old son, Dionicio, to give up his job as a police officer in a suburb of Monterrey. Rival drug cartels have been battling in the northern Mexican city for...
View ArticleThe Pope Emeritus' New Shoes And The Mexican Man Who Makes Them
As Pope Benedict XVI left the Vatican and his papacy, he slipped out of his trademark red shoes and put on a pair of Mexican leather loafers. The shoes, actually three pairs, two burgundy and one...
View ArticleVenezuelan Oil Subsidies Still Buoy Neighbors, For Now
Venezuela's late president, Hugo Chavez, was a tremendous supporter of Latin American countries, especially those sympathetic to his socialist ideals.The country's vast oil reserves are a key source of...
View ArticleMexican President Shifts Focus From Drugs To Progress
Mexico's new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has been in office for three months, and despite his claims that he's fighting drug violence with a new strategy, there are no signs the situation is any...
View ArticleThree Decades On, Ex-Guatemalan Leader Faces Genocide Charges
In a Guatemalan courtroom Tuesday, prosecutors will present their case against a former military dictator who ruled during one of the bloodiest periods in the Central American nation's 36-year civil...
View ArticleU.S. Men's Soccer Team Ties With Mexico
Brad Guzan swatted away shot after shot and the U.S. team hung on for a 0-0 draw with Mexico Tuesday night. The U.S. earned only its second point in a World Cup qualifier at Azteca Stadium.
View ArticleObama Encourages U.S., Mexico To Focus On Economic Relationship
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene. President Obama says it is time to focus on the strong economic relationship between the United...
View ArticleOn Mexico Trip, Obama Maintains Economic Focus
Transcript SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. President Obama is in Costa Rica today. He's talking with leaders of Central American nations about security and...
View ArticleViolence, Hardship Fuels Central American Immigration To U.S.
William Ordonez and his wife, Carolia, thought that starting a new business in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, was a great idea.But just two weeks after they started selling chips, candy and soda, gang...
View ArticleFormer Guatemalan Dictator Found Guilty Of Genocide
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, that's the verdict today against Efrain Rios Montt, a former dictator of Guatemala. The general ruled the Central...
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