37 results for "Tim Johnson"
Gulf Cartel’s power struggle holds Mexican city of Reynosa hostage
Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 12:31 PMThe sinister-looking men seem to be everywhere. They stand idly, walkie-talkies in hand, at key intersections or at the entrances to gated communities where their unseen masters live. They are the front line of the dark power struggle that&rsquo...
As U.S. tightens rules on lead emissions, battery recycling has moved to Mexico
Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 9:00 PMMexico’s standard for lead emissions standards are 10 times less stringent than the United States’. Since 2004, that’s meant a fivefold increase in the number of spent car batteries being shipped to Mexico from the United State...
UN predicts huge expansion of wealth in developing world that will shift power
Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 1:29 PMThe middle class is growing – just not in the United States or Europe – but in the far reaches of the globe, a change that very likely will move power away from the world’s current centers of prosperity, a United Nations study re...
Ex-world leaders press U.S. to alter drug policy
Saturday, March 9, 2013 at 12:00 AMMEXICO CITY – Three former heads of state are urging the United States to engage in a serious discussion of drug legalization, saying its counternarcotics policies are becoming untenable in the wake of voter approval last fall of measures t...
Ex-world leaders: Time for U.S. to rethink drug policy as states ease marijuana laws
Friday, March 8, 2013 at 2:16 PMThree former heads of state are urging the United States to engage in a serious discussion of drug legalization, saying its counternarcotics policies are becoming untenable in the wake of voter approval last fall of measures that legalized the r...
Benefactor's death worries many nations
Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 12:00 AMMEXICO CITY – Like planets gone slightly wobbly in orbit, a string of Western Hemisphere nations fretted openly Wednesday about the death of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, whose skein of relationships went far beyond mere rhetorical su...
Families prod hunt for missing
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 12:00 AMSALTILLO, Mexico – Rogelio Elizondo's son went to buy a used car in Nuevo Laredo. He never came back.
Mexico's oil union boss and his family living large
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe daughter of the boss of Mexico's powerful oil workers union made a youthful indiscretion when she went to Europe last year: She posted photos of her lavish odyssey on Facebook.
Mexico arrest seen as warning to unions
Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 12:00 AMMONTERREY, Mexico – By jailing Mexico's most powerful woman, President Enrique Peña Nieto removed a potential political obstacle and fired a warning shot at other union leaders not to get in the way of the ruling party.
Drug lord sighting another false alarm
Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 12:00 AMWas it Elvis? How about D.B. Cooper? Or could it have been Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán, the world's most wanted man? Supposed sightings of the fugitive Mexican drug boss are growing in frequency, adding to his legend. The late...
