40 results for "Tim Johnson"
Mexico’s Pena Nieto, seeking wide reforms, wants to limit power of governors
Friday, May 17, 2013 at 2:20 PMBarely a quarter-century ago, Mexico’s all-powerful presidents could run any of the nation’s 31 governors out of office at will. Then the pendulum began to swing. In the last decade, the power of governors grew to such levels that th...
Few convictions for Mexico’s special prosecutor for crimes against journalists
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:59 AMComplacent. Ineffective. Bungling. Inept.
Murder of Mexican reporter in Veracruz spotlights official hostility toward press
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 10:29 AMThe story of Regina Martinez’s murder opens a window on a different facet of the violence afflicting journalists in Mexico, one in which gangsters play a lesser role than government officials, who routinely bully journalists and foster an ...
On the crime beat in Mexico, danger lies in knowing too much
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 10:28 AMIt is a sultry morning in this crime-ridden resort, and little movement occurs at the main police headquarters. Francisco Robles, a freelance news photographer, glances down at an incoming text message on his phone.
In Mexico, fears for democracy as threatened journalists curtail coverage
Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 10:26 AMQuitze Fernandez, a columnist for the El Guardian newspaper in this capital of Coahuila state abutting Texas, picked up the phone in his newsroom one day.
Social networks get goods on Mexican elite
Sunday, May 12, 2013 at 12:00 AMThose who resent the powerful ruling class of this country have coined colorful slang phrases for the rich and entitled. The sons of the elite are called "juniors," or worse "papaloys," a Spanish language contraction of the w...
Guatemala court gives 80-year term to ex-dictator Rios Montt
Friday, May 10, 2013 at 5:33 PMA three-judge panel Friday convicted former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt of genocide, saying his military regime used “extreme terror” in an effort to wipe out a Mayan minority ethnic group in the early 1980s.
In Mexico, ‘juniors’ and ‘ladies’ find scorn in social networks
Friday, May 10, 2013 at 1:44 PMThose who resent the powerful ruling class of this country have coined colorful slang phrases for the rich and entitled. The sons of the elite are called “juniors,” or worse “papaloys,” a Spanish language contraction of t...
Mexico, to attract U.S. retirees, may ease limits on landownership
Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 10:06 AMMexican legislators may soon lift a major impediment for foreigners who want to own a piece of Mexico’s Pacific or Caribbean coasts. For the first time in nearly a century, lawmakers are moving to allow non-Mexicans to buy coastal real est...
Obama discusses immigration, economy in Mexico
Friday, May 3, 2013 at 12:00 AMPresident Barack Obama won the strong support of Mexico's new president Thursday to control the flow of migrants and strengthen border security, measures that may give momentum to a pending overhaul of U.S. immigration laws before Congress.
