MEXICO: MIGRANTS INVEST IN ‘MEXICAN DREAM’
Projects supported by migrant workers in the United States are helping bring life back to 'phantom' villages. LAB has a special report.
US says that within weeks its Vulcan Task Force will operate...
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff commander General Martin Dempsey visited Colombia on March 29 to announce that within weeks U.S. military personnel will operate from a military base there with the newly formed Vulcan Task Force.
Mexico: the Deaths Map
Mexico-US frontier: Jeremy Harding sees the frontier as "a vast, straggling set of defences, edified at extraordinary cost, where America's sense that it is under siege can be properly enacted".
Haiti: “We Are Tired of Living under Tents”
Homeless people are pressing for urgent action to provide them with housing.
Argentina: Xenophobia and urban land takeovers
Resentment against foreigners is growing in Argentina, as many poor migrants from Bolivia and Paraguay have been involved in the takeover of land in Buenos Aires.
Soldier Kills Haitian in Dominican Republic
Tensions for Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic as immigrant is shot dead by patrol.
Mexican Drug Violence Sparks Exodus
About 300 families flee Cuidad Meir following days of gang battles triggered by killing of Tony the Tormenta.
Colombia: world leader in displaced people
UN says Colombia has more people displaced by violence than any other country.
Wall Street and the Criminalization of Immigrants
Hedge funds -- and members of the US Congress -- profit from the incarceration of a million immigrants.
Entire US-Mexico Border to Be Guarded by Predator Drones
Surveillance on the US -Mexico border to be increased by the introduction of new drones. Taylor Barnes discusses security issues.