Mexican Cartels Buy Afghan Heroin — Drug Wars Claim 507 in 14 Days
According to Borderland Beat (BB) Jan. 5, Mexican drug cartels have formed elaborate and strategic alliances with Middle Eastern drug traffickers, and those...
North America
Canadian Court Rules for Same-Sex Marriage
A high court in Saskatchewan has ruled that marriage commissioners in Canada may not refuse to perform weddings for same-sex couples, even if...
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World Food Prices Near Crisis Levels
World food prices continued to rise drastically in December and are still escalating thus far in 2011, with no end in sight. According...
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WikiLeaks’ Assange Accuses Some Critics of Terror, Calls for Prosecution
Critics of WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange have called for everything from prosecution and new laws to extrajudicial kidnapping and even assassination to...
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Communist Manifesto Gets Comic Book Makeover
Move over Superman and Spiderman; make room for the latest comic book installment to hit a comic shop and bookstore near you —...
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Residents Abandon Juarez by Thousands as Violence Escalates
Violence in Juarez, Mexico — arguably the world’s deadliest city — is now costing not only lives, but livelihoods, as residents flee, abandoning...
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Al-Qaeda Targeting Christians in Canada, Austria
Not content with terrorizing the Christian minorities that endeavor to survive under Islamic rule, Al-Qaeda is now targeting Coptic Christians who have left...
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Another Step Toward North American Union?
On December 9 Canada’s National Post reported that its government is working on a security and trade deal with the U.S. that would...
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COP16 Reaches Non-binding Climate Deal, UN Rejoices
The United Nations COP16 global-warming summit in Cancun failed to produce a binding deal or even a concrete renewal of the Kyoto Protocol...
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Record Cold at Cancun Climate Confab
As the United Nations opened its latest conference on global warming, Mother Nature sent snowstorms and freezing temperatures that disrupted travel all across...
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Saving Thelma Diaz
When 17-year-old Thelma Diaz showed up for work at Lolo’s Seafood restaurant on Tuesday morning, September 21, in Ascencion, Mexico, about an hour’s...
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UN Likely Caused Cholera Epidemic in Haiti
The United Nations has been guilty over the decades of plenty of criminal and otherwise destructive acts, but causing a deadly epidemic hasn’t...
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Don Alejo Garza Tamez: True Grit
Many still remember the movie True Grit, with John Wayne playing Rooster Cogburn, the irascible drunk who reluctantly agrees to help Mattie track...
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UN Initiative Would Protect Islamic Persecution of Christians in Middle East
At its meeting in Mexico in December, the members of the United Nations General Assembly will vote on an initiative sponsored by the...
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Under Two Percent of Crimes Punished in Mexico
Even as the illegal immigration crisis continues and more states (including Texas) are considering Arizona-style legislation to counteract federal indifference to the influx...
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